Country Pop Bites: Mary Chapin Carpenter – January 5

Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 1995 Mary Chapin Carpenter received four Grammy nominations?

It's true! They were for Record of the Year for "He Thinks He'll Keep Her." "I Swear" was in the running for Song of the Year.

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Here are 5 little known truths about Mary Chapin Carpenter.

• She was born on February 21, 1958 in Princeton, New Jersey, to Chapin Carpenter Jr., a Life Magazine executive, and Mary Bowie Robertson.
• When Carpenter was 16 her parents divorced, an event that affected Carpenter and that she wrote about in her song “House of Cards.
•  She has struggled with periods of depression since childhood.
• While on tour with her album The Calling in spring 2007, Carpenter experienced severe chest and back pain. She continued to perform until a bout of breathlessness took her to the ER, where she learned she had suffered a pulmonary embolism.
• She was the author of a biweekly column in the Washington Times from December 2008 to March 2009 in which she discussed topics related to music and politics.