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LISTEN: Mary Chapin Carpenter, ‘The Blue Distance’

By BGS Staff
Apr 7, 2016

LISTEN: Mary Chapin Carpenter, 'The Blue Distance'

Artist: Mary Chapin Carpenter
Hometown: Princeton, NJ
Song: “The Blue Distance"
Album: The Things That We Are Made Of
Release Date: May 6
Label: Lambent Light Records via Thirty Tigers

In Their Words: "The Icelandic writer Roni Horn spoke of the world as being 'blue at it’s edges and it’s depths … the color of that distance is the color of emotion, the color of solitude and desire … the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go …' This song attempts to speak to these things — how they make us who we are and how deeply we need people in our lives to understand these things in us." — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Photo credit: Aaron Farrington

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LISTEN: Mary Chapin Carpenter, 'The Blue Distance'
LISTEN: Mary Chapin Carpenter, 'The Blue Distance'