Mary Chapin Carpenter

She was honored for her songwriting.

She's a legend!

On June 13, 1989, Mary Chapin Carpenter released her second album, 'State of the Heart'.

On June 13, 1989, country music's mainstream audience met Mary Chapin Carpenter.

The two celebrated singer-songwriters are headed to a city near you later this year.

The award-winning singer-songwriter will hit the road again this summer.

The New Jersey native dominated the genre charts in the late 1980s and into the '90s, thanks to a streak of records that featured insightful reflections on love, politics and the human condition.

Here's a sentence I've never uttered before that I used this week. Here it is. "Do you need to borrow some toilet paper?

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These albums are all turning the big 3-0 this year!

In the notoriously volatile entertainment business, no one can argue with having an education to fall back on.

Mary Chapin Carpenter will have a busy -- and diverse -- fall. The songstress will embark on both an orchestral and an acoustic tour, crossing the country for a series of shows that will run through November.