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Mary Chapin Carpenter | Songs from the Movie
Mary Chapin Carpenter on Songwriting
1 On And On It Goes
2 I Am A Town
3 Between Here And Gone
4 Ideas Are Like Stars
5 The Dreaming Road
6 Only A Dream
7 Come On Come On
8 Mrs. Hemingway
9 Where Time Stands Still
10 Goodnight America
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Mary Chapin Carpenter's debut orchestral record, Songs From The Movie, will be released January 14 on Zoë/Rounder Records. Recorded at Air Studios in London, the album was arranged and conducted by six-time Grammy Award winner Vince Mendoza (Sting, Diana Krall, Chris Botti, Elvis Costello, Björk, Joni Mitchell) and was produced by Carpenter and Mendoza along with Matt Rollings (Keith Urban, Lyle Lovett). Featured on the album are new interpretations of ten beloved songs by Carpenter, including "Between Here and Gone" and "Come On Come On." See reverse for complete track-listing.

In celebration of the album, Carpenter is set to embark on her first tour with a live orchestral backing. The tour will run throughout 2014 and includes a special debut performance at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on January 24 as well as a date at L.A.'s Disney Concert Hall with L.A. Philharmonic on February 8. See reverse for complete details.

Songs From The Movie pairs Carpenter's songbook with an ensemble of London's finest orchestral musicians and features Peter Erskine (Weather Report, John Abercrombie, Rod Stewart, Michael Bublé, Joni Mitchell, Diana Krall) on drums. Of the recording process, Carpenter comments, "Working with Vince Mendoza was incredibly inspiring. His arrangements gave these existing songs new meanings, new colors, new feelings, new destinations. To hear them played by the world class orchestra assembled at Air Studios was beyond any artistic experience that I could have imagined."

The past two years have been landmark years for acclaimed singer-songwriter. In addition to releasing Ashes and Roses (2012) to widespread critical acclaim, Carpenter was recently inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and won an Emmy award for her work on Nashville Public Television's "No Going Back: Women and the War." Over the course of her career, Carpenter has recorded 12 albums and has sold over 13 million records. With hits like "Passionate Kisses" and "He Thinks He'll Keep Her," she has won five Grammy Awards (with 15 nominations), two CMA awards and two Academy of Country Music awards for her vocals. Her songs speak to the most personal of life's details and the most universal.

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