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Article: Mary-Chapin Carpenter shoots straight on album
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 9, 1990
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Mary-Chapin Carpenter sang "You Don't Know Me," her wry tribute
to opening acts, last month at the Country Music Association Awards
in the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville.
An audience of headliners handed her a standing ovation.
Carpenter began her satirical original - which she has yet to
record - by singing, "You don't have a backstage room of your own,
you just have feedback in your microphone. 'Cause you didn't get a
soundcheck, 'cause you're not worth the time, you're gonna' have to
face it, you're no better than slime, you don't know, me, I'm the
opening act."
Carpenter's stage presence was more accessible in Nashville than
when I saw her in December at Park West. There was ...