Mary Chapin Carpenter

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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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.

Mary Chapin Carpenter is still touring behind her most recent studio album, 2010′s ‘The Age of Miracles,’ but she’s already thinking about where her songwriting muse might lead her next. In fact, she says she’s written a handful of new material for her next album — and she’s even taken the opportunity to debut some of the songs on the road.