Singer-songwriter and guitarist Mary Chapin Carpenter is still often associated with (anti-Nashville) country music, but for many years she has traded pure country for a mixture of folk, country and pop. Three years after Time Sex Love, Columbia Records releases Carpenters eighth album. Between Here And Gone (2004) is her most personal album to date. Carpenter expresses her human vision in excellent
… texts on themes such as travel and transformation, the fragility of life and the ephemeral nature of happiness. My Heaven and River are about her wedding and the impressive Grand Central Station about the disastrous event of September 11, 2001. Carpenter's warm alto voice is sweet as honey and the music is refined and accessible. Between Here And Gone is an introspective and serious listening album that makes you think. (SvdP)more
