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Mary Chapin Carpenter's 'State of the Heart': Ranking the Songs


On June 13, 1989, country music s mainstream audience met Mary Chapin Carpenter. The future hitmaker and multi-Grammy Awards winner wasn t new to the studio her folk-leaning debut album, 
Hometown Girl, arrived in 1987 and featured bluegrass mainstays Mark O Connor and Tony Rice yet it s Carpenter s sophomore effort, 
State of the Heart, that helped Class of 89 peers Clint Black, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson and Lorrie Morgan raise the genre s creative bar.
Carpenter established herself as her country music s poet laureate beginning with her consecutive Top 20 singles  How Do, Never Had It So Good, Quittin Time and Something of a Dreamer. Those songs and seven other cuts on ....

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