Mary Chapin Carpenter - Looking For The Thread - VINYL LP

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2020 from singer/songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter. The Dirt and the Stars is the follow-up to her 2018 album Sometimes Just the Sky.

(2-CD set) Recorded in 1994 by the 23-piece Creative Jazz Orchestra, Anthony Braxton considers these two compositions to be his most important works. They might be called Anthony Braxton's operas, and the 20-page booklet gives full librettos of both. Although the orchestra in question is called Creative Jazz Orchestra, the music is much closer to classical/academic avant-garde than to jazz. The scope of Braxton's vision is really amazing, and this double CD is a necessary addition to the collections of Braxton's devotees.

As she has so eloquently accomplished over the past 25 years, acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier has used her art once again to traverse the uncharted waters of the past few years. InchI'm the kind of songwriter who writes what I see in the world right now,Inch she affirms. Thankfully, amid dark storms of pandemic loss, she found and followed the beacon of new love Her gift to us, the powerful Dark Enough to See the Stars, collects ten sparkling jewels of Gauthier songcraft reflecting both love and loss. On Dark Enough to See the Stars, she mourns recent devastating losses the deaths of John Prine, David Olney, Nanci Griffith, and her beloved friend Betsy. But she also sings open-heartedly of love. All ten tracks prove Gauthier's belief, as stated in Saved by a Song, that Inchsongs can bring us a deep understanding of each other and ourselves and open the heart to love.Inch Deep emotion resonates throughout Dark Enough to See the Stars. InchIt kicks off with three love songs,Inch says Gauthier. InchSomewhere along the work I've done in therapy through art and 32 years of recovery, I've somehow stabilized enough to be in a relationship that works - and I want to express that in these songs.Inch The joyous triad - the catchy InchFall Apart World,Inch the lilting ballad InchAmsterdam,Inch and gospel-tinged InchThank God for YouInch - each punctuated with Danny Mitchell's evocative keyboards - comes alive with poetic imagery.