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...NICE THING ABOUT FEMALE singer-songwriters is that they don't have to pretend to be guys. Guy singers do. Dead scared of being tagged sensitive, they get muscle-bound in machismo; it cramps their style and muddies their palette. But Annie Lennox or Bonnie Raitt or Mary-Chapin Carpenter can find shading in passion, a smile in sorrow. Especially in sorrow. For these artists, love is a thing felt most deeply when it's lost. So their songs are mostly past tense: the awful stuff that happened to them, the brave face they can put on it. They must...
...clearest sign that kiddie music has arrived is the presence of performers like Little Richard, who are more familiar on the adult circuit. Cabaret singer Michael Feinstein recorded Pure Imagination, 19 children's songs from musicals and films. Last summer, Disney released Country Music for Kids, featuring Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris and the Oak Ridge Boys. However they play it, this music isn't just kid stuff anymore...
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...