Like the best of poets and storytellers, Mary Chapin Carpenter spins expansive webs of beauty, longing, and emotional depth. On each of the songs on her new album, Personal History, she meditates on chapters of her own life, and she invites us to walk with her on this labyrinthine journey as she shares the enduring wisdom gleaned from the life’s small moments.
The album opens with the soulful meditation on time, “What Did You Miss?” Shimmering piano chords flow beneath Carpenter’s introspective musings about the craving to experience all life has to offer and wondering what we miss when we turn one way rather than another. The album takes its title from the song’s final refrain: “I’ve been walking in circles for so long/Unwinding…

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