Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs Of Christmas

Performer: Mary Chapin Carpenter
Producer: John Jennings; Mary Chapin Carpenter
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Mary Chapin Carpenter (vocals, acoustic guitar); John Jennings (guitars, accordion, piano, drums, percussion); John Carroll (piano). Audio Mixer: John Jennings. Many artists, when faced with the task of doing a Christmas album, merely knock out a selection of familiar pop tunes and perhaps a hymn or two and call it at that. Mary-Chapin Carpenter's COME DARKNESS, COME LIGHT: TWELVE SONGS OF CHRISTMAS is something entirely different: a largely self-written song cycle capturing several different aspects of the holiday season with grace, wit, and feeling. Carpenter, always a songwriter of emotional complexity and novelistic detail, invests these 12 songs with both delicacy and strength.

Dirty Linen (p.63) - "This is an intimate, reflective album....There is darkness and light here, but always joy behind the sadness, connection behind the separateness, hope on the other side of disconnection."

Mary Chapin Carpenter came to country music in the 1980s from a "coffee-house folk" background, bringing with her the genre's brainy introspection. An easterner and a Princeton graduate, Carpenter is an unlikely country star, but hits such as "Down at the Twist and Shout," "I Feel Lucky," and "Shut Up and Kiss Me" demonstrate that her finger is squarely on the country audience's pulse

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