Stones In The Road
by Mary Chapin Carpenter

Stones In The Road by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Year: 1994
Overall rank: 19,541st   
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72/100 (from 18 votes)
     
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Award Top albums of 1994 (338th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (3,095th)
Award Best albums of all time (19,541st)

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Mary Chapin Carpenter bestography

Stones In The Road is ranked 2nd best out of 20 albums by Mary Chapin Carpenter on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Mary Chapin Carpenter is Come On, Come On which is ranked number 6568 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 197.

Mary Chapin Carpenter album bestography « Higher ranked (6,568th)
Come On, Come On
This album (19,541st)
Stones In The Road
Lower ranked (21,891st) »
The Age Of Miracles

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Stones In The Road rankings

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Overall rank: 19,541st | 1990s rank: 3,095th | 1994 rank: 338th

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Stones in the Road is the fifth studio album by Mary Chapin-Carpenter. The record follows up the smash hit album Come On Come On by treading a similar formula, but this record is all Carpenter though. No covers, and no hit co-writes with Don Schlitz. It's way more mid-tempo
and intimate, perhaps the most introspective mainstream country album ever made.

This record doesn't have many memorable upbeat pop-rock kickers, and ultimately it suffers compared to Come On Come On. She would get more lively on her next record "A Place in the World."
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