Birthdays

[ericcoleman]

I rarely note friends birthdays here on LJ. Mostly because I know that if I start doing it, eventually I will forget someone and I'll feel bad about that. So I comment here and there.

But, I do comment on birthdays of musicians, actors, etc that I like, if I remember, since they won't notice if I forget.

So, it's Mary Chapin Carpenter's birthday today. She is one of my FAVORITE songwriters.

So, what is your favorite MCC song?

It's hard to choose, since she has written so many brilliant songs. I think I can narrow it down to a few

Halley Came To Jackson
Going Home (the hidden track from Time Sex Love)
He Thinks He'll Keep Her
I better just stop here ... cause I would probably go on for awhile

Oh, and her covers of The Bug and Passionate Kisses may be the definitive versions

Comments

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

He Thinks He'll Keep Her
Late for Your Life
I Feel Lucky
I Am A Town

[ericcoleman]

I Feel Lucky is way up on the list, but as I said I felt I should stop before I mentioned most of her catalog.

Lyle Lovett was on one of the late night talk shows and was asked what he thought about the song and his comment was "It just meant that, when I met Mary, that I thought that I had to feel her up"

A few years ago the two of them went on a co-headlining tour of England. I wish I coulda seen that show.

[erik]

Come On Come On.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Of course more keep popping into mind.

Stones In the Road
Shut Up and Kiss Me
(I know she didn't write it but I love her version of) Quittin' Time

[lisagems.livejournal.com]

we loves mcc, we does.

I can't think of the name off hand, but the song is about an old shirt she's so long it even had a litter of kittens birthed on it.

[lisagems.livejournal.com]

oh yeah and Stones in the Road. soo good.

[ericcoleman]

It's called This Shirt, and is on the State Of The Heart album

[lisagems.livejournal.com]

yep found it, and it's also on Party Dolls & Other Favorites, which I'm listening to now. Thanks, Eric, I didn't realize how much I needed to listen to MCC today.

Carpenter

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

The whole album *Shooting Straight in the Dark* is just brilliant, but favorites are "What You Didn't Say," the one whose verses end with "Once she's gone, you won't miss her," and may as well include one uptempo driving one, "Down at the Twist and Shout" (with special interest, not just in her singing, but the instrumental solo played on button accordion). Great album. It's been harder for me to pick out individual cuts on albums of hers I bought later; they tend to blur together in a great fog of excellence.

Nate

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

That's the same reason why I don't do the birthday thing either

Unfortunately though, I don't know of much MCC...

[quadrivium.livejournal.com]

Really? Mine too. And my name is Mary Carolyn Crowell. We even have the same initials. That's pretty cool. :-)

[ericcoleman]

Mine too.

I heard a rumor to that effect today ...

[quadrivium.livejournal.com]

Exactly two months after you and exactly one month before weirdsister's.

Yay 21sts!

[ericcoleman]

My eldest three months before me ... it seems to be the thing to do around here

[spiritdancer]

I suspect my list of favorite MCC songs is rather like yours - waaaay long :-)