''Come On Come On'' is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter
Mary Chapin Carpenter, released by
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...
on June 30, 1992. It rose to No. 11 on the ''
Billboard's''
Country Albums chart and No. 31 on the
''Billboard'' 200, with seven of its tracks reaching the
Hot Country Songs
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This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sal ...
chart: "
I Feel Lucky
"I Feel Lucky" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was released in May 1992 as the first single from the album ''Come On Come On''. The song reached number 4 on the '' Billboard'' Hot Coun ...
" (No. 4), "
Not Too Much to Ask" (a duet with
Joe Diffie, No. 15), "
Passionate Kisses
"Passionate Kisses" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. It was released in 1989 as the fourth single from her third album, ''Lucinda Williams'' (1988).
The song was famously covered by Mary Chapin Car ...
" (a cover of the
Lucinda Williams song, No. 4), "
The Hard Way" (No. 11), "
The Bug
"The Bug" is a song written by Mark Knopfler and originally performed by Dire Straits on the final studio album by the band, ''On Every Street'' (1991). It was covered by Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1992, and also recorded on the albums ''Blues Ba ...
" (a cover of the
Dire Straits
Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Pick Withers (drums and percuss ...
song, No. 16), "
He Thinks He'll Keep Her
"He Thinks He'll Keep Her" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was released in December 1993 as the sixth single from the album ''Come On Come On''. The song peaked at No. 2 on the ''Billbo ...
" (No. 2), and "
I Take My Chances" (No. 2). "Passionate Kisses" also reached No. 57 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100.
By 2017, the album had sold 2.9 million copies. It remains Carpenter's best-selling album.
Track listing
All songs written by
Mary Chapin Carpenter except where noted.
Production
*Produced by Mary Chapin Carpenter and John Jennings except "The Bug", which was produced by Mary Chapin Carpenter, John Jennings, and Steve Buckingham.
*Recorded and mixed by Bob Dawson and Marshall Morgan
*Engineered by Toby Seay
Personnel
Adapted from ''Come On Come On'' liner notes.
*J. T. Brown – bass guitar (4, 5), background vocals (4)
*Mary Chapin Carpenter – acoustic guitar (1-3, 7, 9, 11, 12), vocals
*Jon Carroll – piano (4, 6, 11), synthesizer (1), background vocals (4)
*
Rosanne Cash – background vocals (3)
*
Shawn Colvin – background vocals (1, 7, 12)
*Denny Dadmun-Bixby – bass guitar (1, 11)
*
Joe Diffie – duet vocals (6)
*
Jerry Douglas
Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer.
Career
In addition to his fourteen solo recordings, Douglas has played on more than 1,600 albums. As a sideman, he has ...
–
Dobro
Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar.
The Dobro was originally ...
(6)
*
Paul Franklin –
pedal steel guitar
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(5, 6), Pedabro (5)
*
Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. The two met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part o ...
(
Amy Ray
Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12, 1964) is an American alto singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She also pursues a solo career and has released six albums under her own name, and founded a record company, Daemo ...
and
Emily Saliers) – background vocals (1, 10)
*
Bob Glaub – bass guitar (2, 7, 10)
*
John Barlow Jarvis – piano (9)
*
John Jennings John Jennings may refer to:
Politicians
* John Jenyns (1660–1717), MP
* John Jennings (Burton MP) (1903–1990), British Conservative Party politician
* John Jennings (American politician) (1880–1956), U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1939 ...
– electric guitar (1, 2, 4-6, 11), acoustic guitar (3-6, 10, 12), bass guitar (3, 6, 12), percussion (3), programming (3), background vocals (1-5, 10-12)
*
John Jorgenson – electric guitar (2, 7, 10)
*Robbie Magruder – drums (1, 4-6, 11)
*Mike McAdam – electric guitar (4-6),
tremolo
In music, ''tremolo'' (), or ''tremolando'' (), is a trembling effect. There are two types of tremolo.
The first is a rapid reiteration:
* Of a single Musical note, note, particularly used on String instrument#Bowing, bowed string instrument ...
guitar (6)
*
Edgar Meyer – double bass (9)
*
– drums (2, 7, 10)
*
Matt Rollings
Matt Rollings is a Grammy Award-winning American composer, keyboard player and record producer.
Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, Rollings has worked with many artists, not all country. Matt won the 'Best Traditional Pop Voca ...
– piano (1-3, 7, 8, 10, 12)
*
Benmont Tench –
Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...
(2, 3, 10, 11)
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Singles
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Billboard
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References
External links
Mary Chapin Carpenter's official website
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1992 albums
Mary Chapin Carpenter albums
Albums produced by Steve Buckingham (record producer)
Columbia Records albums