“I spent five years working on this record,” says Mary Chapin Carpenter of Personal History, her luxurious new album released in early June. As its title suggests, it’s an autobiographical work — ...

“A Heart That Never Closes,” the new song from Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart, is out now. The track is the latest unveiled from the trio’s first collaborative album, Looking ...

Here's a combination I never expected to see. Country-folk star Mary Chapin Carpenter was been making stately, pretty music since 1987. In the '90s, she sold millions and won a bunch of Grammys. She ...

We zoom-talked in the September, just after the release of The Dirt and the Stars and before her Thanksgiving performance at Wolf Trap: One Night Lonely, a generous two-hour set during which she stood ...

Mary Chapin Carpenter, 67, released her new album "Personal History" on June 6 and is currently touring with Brandy Clark. "Personal History" features songs that explore Carpenter's past regrets, her ...

Leave it to Mary Chapin Carpenter to take something as hackneyed as a greatest hits album and make it intriguing. On the new Party Doll and Other Favorites album (Columbia), Carpenter dipped into the ...

Brandy Clark long has been a lauded pen among Nashville’s ink well, landing hits with chart toppers such as Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert (among others) while also handily stepping out front ...

Show: With the Milk Carton Kids on Saturday at Wolf Trap. Show starts at 8 p.m. 703-255-1868. wolftrap.org. $25-$50. In the mid-1980s, Mary Chapin Carpenter was still passing the hat for tips at Food ...