Mary Chapin Carpenter Teams Up with Dave Cobb On “Things That We Are Made Of”
May 6th will see the release of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s latest album entitled Things That We Are Made Of. Recorded in the spring and summer of 2015, it features red hot producer Dave Cobb at the helm, and will be released via Mary Chapin’s Lambent Records through Thirty Tigers.
“Working with Dave felt great from the first day of our sessions,” says Carpenter. “He is always willing to try something new, believes that ‘yes’ is the only answer, and surrounds himself with wonderfully talented and generous musicians; by the end of the project, I felt as if I was a part of a new family.”
Along with Dave Cobb who also plays guitar and keys on the album, the album features the work of Annie Clements (bass), Brian Allen (bass), Chris Powell (drums, percussion), Mike Webb (piano, B3 organ, reed organ, Mellotron, Fender Rhodes) and Jimmy Wallace (piano, B3 organ).
“I wanted to work with Mary Chapin because very few people can cut with words like she can,” says Dave Cobb. “She’s an absolute poet and legend. I was so happy to collaborate on this album together.”
Mary Chapin Carpenter is a five-time Grammy Award winner who enjoyed widespread commercial success in the early 90’s, especially with her record Come On Come On, which went quadruple platinum and charted seven singles. She’s also an inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Pre-orders for the album will be available February 26th, and you can listen to the first song “Something Tamed Something Wild” below.
TRACK LIST:
1. “Something Tamed Something Wild”
2. “The Middle Ages”
3. “What Does It Mean To Travel”
4. “Livingston”
5. “Map Of My Heart”
6. “Oh Rosetta”
7. “Deep Deep Down Heart”
8. “Hand On My Back”
9. The Blue Distance
10. “Note On A Windshield”
11. “The Things That We Are Made Of”
February 4, 2016 @ 10:52 am
Yay! 🙂 MCC was always one of my favorites, and I will certainly be looking forward to this.
February 4, 2016 @ 11:16 am
She’s a badass. I bet this will be good.
February 4, 2016 @ 11:39 am
Cool! I don’t know anything about Dave Cobb, but Mary Chapin Carpenter is awesome.
February 4, 2016 @ 12:07 pm
I only expect great things from this collaboration. A unique singer-songwriter and a big producer. Can’t wait for this.
February 4, 2016 @ 5:44 pm
There is no single coming out ahead of the release date?
February 4, 2016 @ 6:36 pm
I wouldn’t expect a proper “single” to be serviced to radio from this project. Those days for Mary Chapin have unfortunately passed. But there is a song they’re pushing out ahead of it called “Something Tamed Something Wild.” It wasn’t available for public posting this morning when I posted this, but it’s available now and I just dropped it in the post.
February 5, 2016 @ 6:53 am
I hate that I mostly read this site at work (shhh) because I can never check out the songs unless I’m at home.
February 4, 2016 @ 6:55 pm
Can’t wait for this release. MCC is great and teaming with Dave Cobb is all the more exciting.
February 5, 2016 @ 9:35 am
MCC is great. It would be great to see her, Cobb and lee Roy Parnell team up on this album. MCC and LRP had a great collaboration in songs together
February 5, 2016 @ 9:49 am
I read the title and wanted to buy the record immediately! Then I read the first line and it’s a May 6th release date. Dang.
February 5, 2016 @ 10:13 am
MCC was a huge driving force behind my initial love of country music. I was mostly into classic rock at the time, but something about her voice and storytelling got to me. I must have listened to Come On, Come On a million times.
I hope this album does well, just so she goes on the road again. She seems to just stay out East anymore. It would be good to see come to the Midwest. I would love to see her again in a small venue.
February 5, 2016 @ 11:24 am
Not being a Dave Cobb fan , this doesn’t particulary excite me . However I will say that Mary Chapin Carpenter , Gretchen Peters , Lori McKenna , Holly Williams etc are songwriter’s songwriters . Less is more when it comes to showcasing their talents . ” Producing” these artists is probably the easiest work any producer could be handed . Turn on the mic , go home and come back when its done . . You’re gonna get a gem of a record with just a guitar and a vocal track .
February 8, 2016 @ 9:46 am
Well said. Still waiting for a truly great Dave Cobb album–which is certainly within his grasp. Up til now it has been good albums from great artists.
February 9, 2016 @ 9:07 am
very nice tune.
lyrics that aren’t buried out of shame; lyrics with some meaning, and an actual melody as opposed to a hollered blues scale. You can actually expect that the other songs on the albumwill have a different melody, unlike so many albums where it’s the same few notes sung over a slightly different set of chords.
should be a fine album.