Shooting Straight in the Dark
Her third album, closing with a duet with Shawn Colvin on "The Moon and St. Christopher".
Mary Chapin Carpenter, 1990
Shooting Straight in the Dark was produced by Carpenter and John Jennings, who played guitars, bass and synthesizer. Shawn Colvin sang backing vocals on "Middle Ground" and a duet on the closing track. Matt Rollings played piano, Robbie Magruder drums and Rico Petruccelli bass, with Michael Doucet and Jimmy Breaux of BeauSoleil on "Down at the Twist and Shout" and Mark O'Connor, John McCutcheon and Herb Pedersen on "Halley Came to Jackson". The album reached 70 on the Billboard 200, 11 on Top Country Albums and 111 in Australia. AllMusic gave it 4.5 stars and Entertainment Weekly an A-minus. Sources disagree on whether the label was Columbia Nashville/TriStar or Columbia.
Track listing
- Going Out Tonight3:16
- Right Now2:36
- The More Things Change3:56
- When She's Gone5:05
- Middle Ground3:51
- Can't Take Love for Granted4:01
- Down at the Twist and Shout3:21
- Halley Came to Jackson3:10
- What You Didn't Say4:36
- You Win Again3:59
- The Moon and St. Christopher4:21
More from Mary Chapin Carpenter
Hometown Girl (1987), State Of The Heart (1989), Stones In The Road (1994), A Place In The World (1996), Time* Sex* Love* (2001), Between Here And Gone (2004), The Calling (2007), Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs Of Christmas (2008), The Age Of Miracles (2010), Songs From The Movie (2014), The Things That We Are Made Of (2016), Sometimes Just the Sky (2018), The Dirt And The Stars (2020), Personal History (2025)
Sources
- Shooting Straight in the Dark, Wikipedia