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Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas |
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Release Date: September 30, 2008
A Mary Chapin Carpenter holiday CD is something the singer/songwriter has been thinking about for a long time. But she’s waited until she could do it her way. As Carpenter explains: “I had been asked for many years by my old label to do a Christmas record, but their need was for music that was more familiar to the public. I love holiday music but I wanted to do something that was a bit more off the beaten path. When I found myself recording for Rounder/Zoë, I thought perhaps the time had come to attempt this. These are songs that I have loved for a long time, as well as new music that I wrote for the project.”
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Mary Chapin Carpenter’s The Calling, her first release for Zöe/Rounder, is unique among a body of work that has earned her five Grammy Awards and helped her sell 13 million records in the first 20 years of her career. While her writing continues to be deeply personal, this new collection of songs also unequivocally addresses issues both public and political: from the after-effects of Hurricane Katrina to religious zealotry to the trial-by-radio of the Dixie Chicks. Thematically, the album is about faith, vocation, commitment, responsibility, and the ways these are wielded for various—often, competing—agendas.
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