Word: chapin
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MUSIC Mary-Chapin Carpenter brings class to country...
PERFORMER: MARY-CHAPIN CARPENTER...
...weren't writing and singing terrific songs that help define the new breadth of country music, Mary-Chapin Carpenter would be a member of its target market. An Ivy Leaguer (Brown) who grew up in exotic climes (Tokyo, Princeton) as the daughter of a publishing executive (Chapin Carpenter, a Life sachem), she played for tips in Washington clubs and made her first album, Hometown Girl, in 1987. The sound was clean and folky; the voice suggested Judy Collins after a long bus trip from Richmond to Baton Rouge. The album got airplay on college stations and public radio...
Where have all the folk singers gone? Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger and Tom Chapin have been making records for little tykes. Next: Judy Collins' Amazing Grades...
...Bean catalog, and he loves golf so much that he lives on a course outside Nashville. Cleve Francis, one of the few black country singers signed to a major label since Charley Pride in the '60s, is a 46-year-old cardiologist from the suburbs of Washington. Mary-Chapin Carpenter has a degree in American civilization from Brown University; she drew the idea for her highly successful When Halley Came to Jackson, about the appearance of Halley's comet in Mississippi, from a line in the memoirs of Eudora Welty. K.T. Oslin once made a living as a Broadway chorus...