Sometimes Just the Sky
Her fifteenth album: re-recordings of non-hit songs, with a new title track.
Mary Chapin Carpenter, 2018
Sometimes Just the Sky was produced by Ethan Johns and recorded live at Real World Studios in Box, Wiltshire, then mixed at Three Crows East. The band was Dave Bronze on bass, Stephanie Jean on keyboards, Georgina Leach on violin and viola, Duke Levine on guitars and Jeremy Stacey on drums, with Carpenter on acoustic guitar and vocals. "The Moon and St. Christopher" is track five, at 4:25. The album reached number 1 on the UK Americana chart, 74 on the UK Albums chart and 29 on the US Top Country Albums. AllMusic gave it 3.5 stars, finding that the re-recorded songs have a strong enough personality of their own, and Glide gave it 9 out of 10.
Track listing
More from Mary Chapin Carpenter
Hometown Girl (1987), State Of The Heart (1989), Shooting Straight in the Dark (1990), 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), The Dirt And The Stars (2020), Personal History (2025)
Sources
- Sometimes Just the Sky, Wikipedia
- Mary Chapin Carpenter interview, Songwriter's Universe (2018)