Excerpted from The New York Times:
Ms. Carpenter will embark on a tour that kicks off in Charlottesville on June 19. (She performs in New York on June 26.) “To be going on tour this summer feels really celebratory,” she said. “When you don’t do what you normally do, you ask, ‘Who am I?’ When I’m not getting on a bus, going on tour, or connecting to the world through music, I find myself asking, ‘How do I connect?’ ”
“There’s a real peace in the sound of her voice, and she’s such a big influence,” said the country singer Vince Gill, who has toured with Ms. Carpenter and sings backup vocals on the new album’s “I Put My Ring Back On.” “I really missed hearing her for a few years. She’s not clonish and not trying to be something else. She’s a great interpreter like Emmylou, Dolly and Loretta.”
“Chapin is sort of the last of the poets of her gender to be embraced by mainstream country radio,” said the singer and producer Rodney Crowell.
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