MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – Come On Come On (Reissue) – LP – Grape Colour Vinyl

LP – Limited Edition Grape Colour Vinyl (2025 Real Gone Music Reissue).

Come On Come On isnt just Mary Chapin Carpenters most popular album, with sales of 3 million copies. Its also a contemporary country landmark. No less than seven of its songs became country hits: I Feel Lucky, I Take My Chances, Not Too Much to Ask, The Hard Way, He Thinks Hell Keep Her, and two inspired covers, of Dire Straits The Bug and Lucinda Williams Passionate Kisses. More importantly, though, this 1992 release pointed the way towards what country music would become in the 21st century with its savvy seasoning of pop and soft-rock sounds into a more personal style of country songwriting from a female point of view.

If youre thinking that sounds familiar, youre not wrong; Come On Come Ons prodigious commercial prowess isnt the only thing this record has in common with the early work of Taylor Swift. But, it also crossed over into the rock realm in a way that, arguably, Swifts records have not; the flourishing Americana and alt-country audiences of the early 90s ate this album up, and guest stars like Rosanne Cash, The Indigo Girls, and Shawn Colvin just upped its street cred. Somehow, this classic record has never (come on!) made it to vinyl; were making up for a whole lot of lost time with a grape vinyl pressing housed inside a colour inner sleeve with lyrics. Essential!

Tracklist:

Side One
1. The Hard Way
2. He Thinks Hell Keep Her
3. Rhythm of the Blues
4. I Feel Lucky
5. The Bug
6. Not Too Much to Ask (with Joe Diffie)

Side Two
1. Passionate Kisses
2. Only a Dream
3. I Am a Town
4. Walking Through Fire
5. I Take My Chances