The Calling
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
- Band Name: Mary Chapin Carpenter
- Record Label: Zoe
- Release Date: Mar 6, 2007
- Summary: This politically-charged effort is the veteran country-folk artist's first album in three years.
- Record Label: Zoe
- Genre(s): Country, Folk
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 8 out of 9
-
Mixed: 1 out of 9
-
Negative: 0 out of 9
-
Time will tell, of course, but in The Calling, Carpenter may have her finest moment yet; it also feels like an artistic rebirth.
-
80If the new album goes farther in advocating a political conscience--"On with the Song" takes jabs at the jingoistic rubes who dissed the Dixie Chicks, while "Why Shouldn't We" insists we'll have worthy heroes in office again one day--it largely invokes the same quiet, warm, and conversational tone as its predecessor.
-
Though much of the blandness can be attributed to Matt Rollings' MOR production, one is left wishing an artist of Carpenter's considerable talents would eschew the aural dreck and truly shine. [May 2007, p.68]
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 3 out of 4
-
Mixed: 1 out of 4
-
Negative: 0 out of 4
-
JohnD10
-
-
MattD.9
-
-
ToddW5
-
-
Live in Europe 1967: Best of the Bootleg, Vol. 1 - Miles Davis
-
Siamese Dream [Deluxe Edition] - Smashing Pumpkins
-
The SMiLE Sessions - The Beach Boys
-
National Treasures: The Complete Singles - Manic Street Preachers
-
Satan Is Real/Handpicked Songs 1955-1962 - The Louvin Brothers
-
Some Girls [Deluxe Edition] - The Rolling Stones
-
Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down - Ry Cooder
-
Unto the Locust - Machine Head
-
Quadrophenia [The Director's Cut] - The Who
-
Rio [Live] - Keith Jarrett
-
What Were You Hoping For? - Van Hunt
-
Bitch Magnet - Bitch Magnet
-
Charity Starts at Home - Phonte
-
Nevermind [20th Anniversary Edition] - Nirvana
-
Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller, Vol. 1 - Drexciya
-
Bad as Me - Tom Waits
-
The Singles - Goldfrapp
-
Undun - The Roots