Mary Chapin Carpenter - Personal History

Black Vinyl LP Record

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Personal History is the seventeenth studio album by American singer songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, released in June 2025 via Lambert Light Records and Thirty Tigers.

Five-time Grammy-winner Mary Chapin Carpenter’s newest studio album, Personal History, deals with just this. The album features some of Carpenter’s most personal writing to date.

In early 2025 the 11-song album Personal History was recorded at Real World Studios in Box, England, with Josh Kaufman (Bob Weir, The National, The Hold Steady) producing and a world-class band of musicians: Matt Rollings (piano, Hammond organ, Phillips organ, accordion, xylophone), Duke Levine (electric guitar, hammer dulcimer, Chris Vatalaro (drums, percussion), Cameron Ralston (bass), and Josh Kaufman himself (guitar, organ, harmonium, harmonica). Anais Mitchell lends harmonies to 'Home Is A Song.'

Carpenter shared of the album process, "I started writing the songs on this album as the pandemic began winding down; the titular song 'What Did You Miss' pointed the way forward, with its final verse: 'I’ve been writing it down/song by song/as a personal history' when imagining this collection of songs as memoir, and how the wisdom that comes with growing older becomes a north star, whether one is celebrating life’s joys or navigating life’s inevitable losses."

"From the first verse of 'Paint + Turpentine' about sitting in the dark of the Birchmere Music Hall watching Guy Clark teach a master class in songwriting and storytelling, to coming to terms with how later life turned out in 'Girl and Her Dog,' to inventorying what matters in 'The Saving Things' to discovering the wisdom in words and phrases that we usually roll our eyes towards in 'Say It Anyway,' it is my hope that these songs allow the listener to come away not only with a musical sketch of my life from young adulthood on, but also an affirming reflection of their own life as well."

This album is on black vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with a printed insert, pressed in the US via Lambert Light Records and Thirty Tigers.

(21281)

Tracklisting:

 

No.

Track

Time

A1

What Did You Miss

4:59

A2

Paint + Turpentine

3:39

A3

New Religion

4:22

A4

Girl And Her Dog

4:59

A5

The Saving Things

4:53

B1

Hello My Name Is

6:09

B2

Bitter Ender

3:28

B3

The Night We Never Met

3:31

B4

Home Is A Song

4:06

B5

Sat It Anyway

3:42

B6

Coda

4:47

SKU 21281
Record Label Lambent Light Records
Label / Model # Independent
Catalogue Number LLR0051
Country US - United States
Release Date (Year) 06 June 2025
Original Release Date (Year) 06 June 2025
Barcode # 732388001385
Shipping Weight 0.2500kg
Shipping Width 0.010m
Shipping Height 0.314m
Shipping Length 0.314m
Shipping Cubic 0.000986000m3
Type New
Format Limited Edition LP Record, Black Vinyl, Single Pocket Sleeve, Printed Inner Sleeve
Vinyl Colour Black
Format VINYL LP
Genre Country

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