Sometimes Just the Sky

Sometimes Just the Sky is a 2018 studio album by American country musician Mary Chapin Carpenter featuring re-recorded songs from earlier in her career, with one track from each of her previous studio albums and a new title track. It has received positive reviews from critics.

Sometimes Just the Sky
Studio album by
Mary Chapin Carpenter
ReleasedMarch 30, 2018 (2018-03-30)
StudioReal World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
GenreCountry, folk[1]
Length61:16
LanguageEnglish
LabelLambent Light
ProducerEthan Johns
Mary Chapin Carpenter chronology
The Things That We Are Made Of
(2016)		 Sometimes Just the Sky
(2018)		 The Dirt and the Stars
(2020)

Recording and release

The album was recorded live in studio at Real World Studios and was accompanied by a tour celebrating 30 years of Carpenter's recording career.[2] Carpenter set about to make the new recordings by choosing songs that were not hits of hers and that she also had not recorded on her 2014 orchestral album Songs from the Movie, which saw 10 cuts from her career reintepreted.[3]

Reception

The editorial staff of AllMusic Guide scored Sometimes Just the Sky 3.5 out of five stars, with reviewer Mark Deming comparing this to Songs from the Movie; he considers this re-recorded material to have "a strong enough personality of its own that it avoids this pitfall" of being weaker than the originals or unable to stand on its own as a musical statement.[1] Jim Hynes of Glide Magazine rated this release a nine out of 10, writing that fans can enjoy "intense listening" to the instrumentation and sometimes radical reinterpretations of Carpenter's songs, summing up that "there’s more than enough to savor here" while waiting for an album of new material.[4]

Track listing

All songs written by Mary Chapin Carpenter

  1. "Heroes and Heroines" – 4:14
  2. "What Does It Mean to Travel" – 3:36
  3. "I Have a Need for Solitude" – 4:35
  4. "One Small Heart" – 5:18
  5. "The Moon and St. Christopher" – 4:25
  6. "Superman" – 6:08
  7. "Naked to the Eye" – 3:31
  8. "Rhythm of the Blues" – 3:59
  9. "This Is Love" – 5:20
  10. "Jericho" – 4:43
  11. "The Calling" – 4:02
  12. "This Shirt" – 5:02
  13. "Sometimes Just the Sky" – 6:23

Personnel

See also

References
  1. Deming, Mark. "Mary Chapin Carpenter – Sometimes Just the Sky". AllMusic. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  2. Betts, Stephen L. (February 8, 2018). "Hear Mary Chapin Carpenter's Evocative Re-Imagining of 'This Shirt'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  3. Kawashima, Dale (April 4, 2018). "Mary Chapin Carpenter Talks About Her Album Sometimes Just The Sky, And Her Classic Albums And Songs". Songwriter Universe. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  4. Hynes, Jim (March 30, 2020). "Mary Chapin Carpenter Celebrates Thirty Years of Recording with 'Sometimes Just the Sky'". Glide Magazine. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
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