Chapin is one of a large group of really outstanding female singers in country of the '80s and '90s -- Kathy Matthea, Holly Dunn (RIP), Suzy Boggus and Patty Loveless, among others, really made country music shine. Love them all! Saw Chapin in a small-venue concert once and was totally blown away (and I think that was before "Twist and Shout" came along).
This is a great mix of country and zydeco music. Zydeco is primarily from the Acadian / Cajun peoples from Louisiana. It's some of the best feel good, party dance, get-together music ever. Mary's career during the late 80's and throughout the 90's brought songs like "Shut Up and Kiss Me", "I Feel Lucky", and "Passionate Kisses". From the same time period there was female artists like Deana Carter, Patty Loveless, Pam Tillis, LeeAnn Womack.
Actually this is Cajun music which comes from the Cajun people in Louisiana who are descendants of the Acadians who were driven out of Acadia in the Canadian maritime region whereas Zydeco music comes from the African-American culture often identified as Creole. The two cultures co-existed so that elements of each crossed over into the other resulting in a similar sound in music. One of the leading Cajun fiddlers, Michael Doucet, of the Cajun group BeauSoleil can be seen in the video.
That's how we party in Louisiana, living just west [about half an hour] from Lafayette. The 2 step is so fun. and yes that was an accordian! the band Beausoli was backing her. Crawfish are yummy too! If you are ever coming to USA, check out other areas besides New Orleans whish is unique. Our heritage is based on gospel, cajun music, jazz, soul , rock, and folk. Growing up as a family we would enjoy playing music every sunday, accordian, fiddles, guitar and piano. Lots of singing in cajun french and english. Mary captured our culture with that lovely voice and song.
@Arb9982 ... I completely agree. This song & version of it, is my all time favourite of MCC ... I remember that particular add for Geritol, of all things, as one of the most offensive cases of male chauvinistic piggery I can recall. I laugh out loud @ the look of utter shock I imagined on the stupid, self centered husband's face when she kicked him out ... Every time I hear it ... 😂😂😂
I have loved Mary from those early days. She has many "styles" of sound. I really like "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" and many more. Really enjoyed hearing this with you Beth!
This was from many years ago. MCC is 65 now. A songwriter turned performer really put on a great show. We’ve seen her a few times and only live half an hour from Maryland here in Delaware. She’s always been a sweetheart
MCC won a grammy for this song and also won best female country singer that same year (1992). Also won best new female country artist in 1989! I've seen her live twice back in the 90's...one was an acoustic tour. Both were really great!
Mary Chapin Carpenter was an angel during the start of COVID - in the very early days, when everybody was locked into their homes to avoid contact, she started a "Songs From Home" video series, playing and singing in her kitchen for those of us who couldn't go out to hear music. The very first episode she introduces this way: "This song is about one of my favorite places in the world - Edinburgh" ruclips.net/video/ZcFBfYjMLs4/видео.html
I live alone, and so during the lockdown, there was basically no human contact. Hearing her sing songs from her heart made things at least tolerable. It reminded me that it was going to get better.
Crawdads (aka crawfish or mudbug) look like shrimp but they live in fresh water and folks in Louisiana love their crawfish boils as they are called. Your first pronunciation of Maryland was spot on BTW. Yes that is an accordion! Country music often has a fiddle (violin for the sophisticated folks), steel guitar, and an accordion (especially in the southern USA) where zydeco is quite popular, Zydeco is kind of a Cajun French blues/rhythm and blues mix indigenous to Louisiana with a Caribbean feel that is so fun to listen to. This song definitely has that country-zydeco feel. Try listening to country music star Alan Jackson sing 'Chattahoochee'. You will love it! Thanks Beth!🤪❤
Adorable reaction Beth. Mary Chapin Carpenter's fun songs like Down at the Twist & Shout, I Feel Lucky, Shut Up and Kiss Me, and more will get you up & dancing! They're infectious. She's been around since the late 80's & I've been a fan since the beginning. She is a mix of several genres, including country, americana, folk & adult contemporary. However, as a vocal coach and singer (loved your rendition of Wicked Games), if you truly want to hear the beauty & depth of Mary Chapin Carpenter's vocals & the mastery of her songwriting (she writes or co-writes all of her songs with very few exceptions, & her album Stones In The Road won the Grammy for Best Country album), then I highly, highly suggest you give yourself the pleasure of listening to Someone Else's Prayer & The Dreaming Road from her Time Sex Love album, The Moon & St. Christopher from Shooting Straight In The Dark album (also has Down at the Twist & Shout), and Between Here and Gone which is the title track from album of the same name. You don't have to react to them, just listen. You'll be thankful you did. They are stunningly beautiful & haunting. Mary Chapin Carpenter is criminally underrated as a singer & song writer these days. She's a gift to both the heart and soul.
Mary Chapin Carpenter is a hoot. She once sang a song to George Jones at the CMA awards that basically said, Hi, you don't know me, but I'm your opening act. It brought down the house. Fun facts, I used to have a CD autographed by Mary but gave it to a friend. And Delia Owens, author of the book "Where the Crawdads Sing" once served me home made chocolate chip cookies and milk on her back porch while we discussed a project. She's a super nice lady.
It wasn't George Jones. I was working in radio at the time, and all of us on staff independently came to the same conclusion of who it was, based on the clues in the song and who we knew could be real jackasses when away from the fans.
@@almostfm I think you're right. My memory is playing tricks on me. I've since read that she was opening for Dwight Yoakam when she wrote the song. And when you look at the original lyrics it kind of leaves no doubt about it (tight jeans, lots of sequins, wears a cowboy hat to hide his bald spot, sings like a frog with a sinus condition). She had some guts to sing it. 🙂
Chapin is great. Back in my radio days, we promoted a concert where she was the opening act (and sang the full NSFW version of the song). Post concert we got to go on her bus for the meet and greet. She was so sweet, and said several times she didn't understand why we wanted to meet her instead of the headliner, until one of us said she absolutely killed on stage. We all got to pose for pictures, and because I'm pretty tall and she's not, the only way we could get both our heads in the frame was for me to sit down and her to stand behind me. Even so, the top of my head was about even with her mouth. And it's easy to see in the picture which of us had a crush on the other one :-)
Wonderful vocals, wonderful song writer. She had three straight incredible albums (Shooting Straight in the Dark, Come On Come On, Stones in the Road) that launched her into the stratosphere with 5 Grammy Awards. My favorite song is "Naked to the Eye" from "A Place in the World."
Ah, I haven't heard this in years. Such a fun song! Yes, you would love New Orleans. Live music in so many restaurants and bars and buskers everywhere. I love Cajun music, it makes me so happy! Nothing like spending a Friday evening listening to a good "washboard" band. :)
Oh yeah...a fiddle, washboard, cajun accordian, drums and guitar...wish I was in New Orleans now! Fun song by a cool artist...thanks to whoever recommended this!
Fun to see your reactions to so many of my favorite singers (I’m 62) … had to giggle at your comment about dancing while cooking; I listen to MCC often while cleaning house 😊 because she has SO many of these high-energy songs/music that are partially rooted in old Scots-Irish American immigrants from 17th to 19th century.
Such a great song. And love the reference to "Jolie Blon", sometimes referred to as the Cajun national anthem! "Well you learned to dance with your rock'n'roll You learned to swing with a do-si-do But you learn to love at the fais-so-do When you hear a little Jolie Blon"
Love MCC! Don't think it was the album that this song came off of, but I use to listen to her "Come On, Come On" album over and over, back in the day. Good mix of fun songs like this, some good poppie ones, but also some real slow beautiful ones where her voice is just amazing. Oh, and Mar-i-land, like you said it first.
Hi Beth. Thank you for this video. This makes me feel in a moment of quality time, a moment where we're in the process of worshipping God. Thank you, and be blessed.
So underrated. My mom played her all the time growing up. Dreamland is my comfort song. Reminds me of my mom. Would love to see someone like Zach Bryan do a collab.
Sounds exactly like the album track with some cheering added, hence the invisible accordion. I first heard this song while on vacation in the 1990s and immediately went to a music store to buy the cassette (and CD later). The entire album has great songs, but this is the standout track.
By the way, crawdads are kind of like the cockroaches of the water...the ones I used to get out of the creek when I was a kid looked like miniature lobsters, but they were about 2 inches long and lived in a creek that never got deeper than 2-3 feet. Growing up I had an old Cajun that lived nearby that would buy all the crawdads I could bring him for a nickel apiece. MCC is a fantastic singer and I was glad to hear you listen to her for the first time. Looking forward to more from you! Thanks!
Interesting note. The band referenced in this song is an actual New Orleans Cajun band called Beausoleil. They also played on the recording and are the band featured in this video. The great Mike Doucet on fiddle. As a New Orleans resident, I approve.
I’m so glad you did this! I’ve seen Mary Chapin several times over the past 20 years. She is phenomenal in concert. I’ll try to think of a slow song that she does, that 1:14 would blow your mind.
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@@alittlebitgone You are correct sir! She's pining about going to Louisiana. Here are the lyrics: "Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans Never have drifted down a bayou stream But I heard that music on the radio -----> And I swore some day I was gonna go Down to Highway 10, past the Lafayette There's the Baton Rouge and I won't forget To send you a card with my regrets 'Cause I'm never gonna come back home"
A lot of your reactions lately are bands/singers I saw live in the 80s and 90s. Quite the walk down memory lane. I saw MCC at one of the Lilith Fairs and have been a fan ever since. Thanks Beth! ❤️
It's so great that you did this song ! I loved this song as a little girl and especially when the Chipmunks did it on their album! One of my favorites by her is also I feel lucky
That's a Louisiana "Cajun" squeeze box giving the accordion sound. The Louisiana Purchase from FRANCE in the early 19th Century gave America a huge land area, hinged to the New Orleans, hence the French immigrant sound, with the squeeze box related to those on Parisian music. The fiddle (violin) sound is also key to this music. Mary Chapin Carpenter was super popular in the 1990s as also has a much better voice than most country music rivals.
MCC was a big star, sadly as is becoming truer every year country music is being taken over by children who all sound the same and have left the best of country behind for pop. Chapin calls out a band called Beau Soleil several times in the lyrics of this song, and they were on stage in this along with her band. Mary is a really talented performer and writer. Love your insight and that smile Beth. Wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
She sings "except when the paper says 'Beausoleil is coming to town'". The zydeco band she is singing with in the video is actually Beausoleil with the legendry Michael Doucet on fiddle.
Would love you to do Mary Chapin Carpenter doing her hit cover of John Lennon’s “Grow Old Along With Me” ( if you haven’t yet). Beautiful, beautiful, song! 😁
She is singing about southern Louisiana. I think this was the mid 80s, zydeco and rock not blue grass. Where the crawdadys sing was about this area. Swamp people also. Hank williams also sang about this area. Jambalaya, crawfish pie creole gumbo very old song. Cajun country.
There may be a bar named twist & shout but that term can refer to any place where people gather to twist (dance) & shout (celebrate); alcohol in the mix is not uncommon.
For more zydeco try Zachary Richard "One Kiss". Or really any of his songs. "Cote Blanche Bay", "Who Stole My Monkey", "Crawfish", "Snake Bite Love", "Six Bullets in Satan", etc.
That accordion is a Cajun accordion. It's a type of accordion that was developed in Switzerland, and Louisiana and its music is the last place in the world it's used.
The music is basic “Cajun” not Zydeco. The fiddler is Michael Doucet.. Zydeco music has a different rythym and uses a different accordion. The washboard is an instrument used primarily in Zydeco.
There's so many past country singers that blow the doors off any new so called country artists. Randy Travis, Allison Krauss, Vince Gill, Travis Tritt, Martina McBride...there's so much you're missing! You could have a whole month of country and still not cover even a little of it lol
Thank you so much for reacting to her! She's one of my most favorite artists! Mary Chapin Carpenter started out in folk music, but I think fairly quickly got noticed by some country music folks and she had a great country career. Somewhere along the line, country music started to not value women's voices as much, and they also had a period of going super conservative/right wing, so Mary veered back to more folk/roots music. She did a lovely series during the pandemic - thought you might like this: ruclips.net/video/ZcFBfYjMLs4/видео.html Also - Jill Johnson from Sweden!!!! She wrote a song called "It Only took a Minute for my country to love country" - and in the "name drop section" she includedes BEYONCE! I can't tell you how much I loved that. This is a performance from a Swedish summer music series called Allsang pa skansen which has all the great Swedish artists often singing in English, though far from always. ruclips.net/video/XuQRbpCdRl4/видео.html
Shut up and kiss me and I feel lucky are a couple more hits of hers, but I really think you would enjoy taking on some zydeco music. Big energy! When you see a rub board and an accordian you're home!
An amazing songwriter and singer. Many of her songs are moody and talk about deep feelings, political issues, and growing up. BTW, A Crawdad is not a lobster. It looks like a miniature lobster and is sometimes called a crawfish or a crayfish. Of course, it's not a fish, it's a crustacean and found in freshwater, whereas a lobster lives in the ocean. I saw the movie you mentioned and loved it. I'll watch it again. Maybe there are places in the south where they call them lobster.
Crawdads and Lobster aren't exactly the same. They look the same, but crawdads are small, like fitting in the palm of the hand small. Also, lobsters are caught in the ocean, and crawdads in river deltas and rivers.
It is a shame that the reviewers choose these early songs - most choose exactly them same track, why I don’t know - when she is more admired for her later tracks like Transcendental Reunion. This Twist And Shout track, in comparison to her later ones, is rather shallow - fun, but shallow. Now, she sings her more “serious” songs which are truly beautiful as she did on her sessions on the Transatlantic Sessions for the BBC some years ago. Try Transcendental Reunion, Why Shouldn’t We, or On And On It Goes with their beautiful lyrics. Choose the album versions for the lovely production.
It's absolutely mind-boggling when I hear people diss country or say they don't listen to it or know it. Folks, country music was being recorded over 100 years ago. Check out Jimmie Rogers for example. I know you like your genres but country likely has decades or even a half century on that stuff you're listening to. So many songs of different flavors for your ears and instruments you've never heard of and styles and "vibes". Country has many sub-genres and hybrid fringe-genres that you're gonna like at least a few. And, it likely influenced a lot of the artists you're hearing, heck they're sampling and covering a lot of country songs and you don't even realize it. Don't get it twisted as they say, that same dumb commercialized "country" songs you hear on the radio today that we all can't stand is only a grain of sand on a beach of the country music out there and the country music still being made today that for some reason will never make it onto the radio...that's just a whole other can of worms.
Chapin is one of a large group of really outstanding female singers in country of the '80s and '90s -- Kathy Matthea, Holly Dunn (RIP), Suzy Boggus and Patty Loveless, among others, really made country music shine. Love them all! Saw Chapin in a small-venue concert once and was totally blown away (and I think that was before "Twist and Shout" came along).
This is a great mix of country and zydeco music. Zydeco is primarily from the Acadian / Cajun peoples from Louisiana. It's some of the best feel good, party dance, get-together music ever. Mary's career during the late 80's and throughout the 90's brought songs like "Shut Up and Kiss Me", "I Feel Lucky", and "Passionate Kisses". From the same time period there was female artists like Deana Carter, Patty Loveless, Pam Tillis, LeeAnn Womack.
Actually this is Cajun music which comes from the Cajun people in Louisiana who are descendants of the Acadians who were driven out of Acadia in the Canadian maritime region whereas Zydeco music comes from the African-American culture often identified as Creole. The two cultures co-existed so that elements of each crossed over into the other resulting in a similar sound in music. One of the leading Cajun fiddlers, Michael Doucet, of the Cajun group BeauSoleil can be seen in the video.
@@coinneachmaclellan3121 And it's all mixed into its own genre. I just didn't want to break it all down into their own components.
She also wrote Wynonna's hit "Girls With Guitars".
She was marketed as country but is more folk I would say. "I Take My Chances" is one of my favorites of hers.
I’ll second that
That's how we party in Louisiana, living just west [about half an hour] from Lafayette. The 2 step is so fun. and yes that was an accordian! the band Beausoli was backing her. Crawfish are yummy too! If you are ever coming to USA, check out other areas besides New Orleans whish is unique. Our heritage is based on gospel, cajun music, jazz, soul , rock, and folk. Growing up as a family we would enjoy playing music every sunday, accordian, fiddles, guitar and piano. Lots of singing in cajun french and english. Mary captured our culture with that lovely voice and
song.
She writes and sings all kinds of music! She's so good!!
Live version of He Thinks He'll Keep Her, which has a music video, is exceptional. Lots of big names with her on stage.
@Arb9982 ...
I completely agree. This song & version of it, is my all time favourite of MCC ...
I remember that particular add for Geritol, of all things, as one of the most offensive cases of male chauvinistic piggery I can recall.
I laugh out loud @ the look of utter shock I imagined on the stupid, self centered husband's face when she kicked him out ... Every time I hear it ... 😂😂😂
I have loved Mary from those early days. She has many "styles" of sound. I really like "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" and many more. Really enjoyed hearing this with you Beth!
This was from many years ago. MCC is 65 now. A songwriter turned performer really put on a great show. We’ve seen her a few times and only live half an hour from Maryland here in Delaware. She’s always been a sweetheart
MCC won a grammy for this song and also won best female country singer that same year (1992). Also won best new female country artist in 1989! I've seen her live twice back in the 90's...one was an acoustic tour. Both were really great!
Great reaction. Mary Chapin Carpenter has been among my favorite female country artists for a very long time. Glad you enjoyed it.
Mary Chapin Carpenter was an angel during the start of COVID - in the very early days, when everybody was locked into their homes to avoid contact, she started a "Songs From Home" video series, playing and singing in her kitchen for those of us who couldn't go out to hear music. The very first episode she introduces this way: "This song is about one of my favorite places in the world - Edinburgh"
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I live alone, and so during the lockdown, there was basically no human contact. Hearing her sing songs from her heart made things at least tolerable. It reminded me that it was going to get better.
Crawdads (aka crawfish or mudbug) look like shrimp but they live in fresh water and folks in Louisiana love their crawfish boils as they are called. Your first pronunciation of Maryland was spot on BTW. Yes that is an accordion! Country music often has a fiddle (violin for the sophisticated folks), steel guitar, and an accordion (especially in the southern USA) where zydeco is quite popular, Zydeco is kind of a Cajun French blues/rhythm and blues mix indigenous to Louisiana with a Caribbean feel that is so fun to listen to. This song definitely has that country-zydeco feel. Try listening to country music star Alan Jackson sing 'Chattahoochee'. You will love it! Thanks Beth!🤪❤
Adorable reaction Beth. Mary Chapin Carpenter's fun songs like Down at the Twist & Shout, I Feel Lucky, Shut Up and Kiss Me, and more will get you up & dancing! They're infectious. She's been around since the late 80's & I've been a fan since the beginning. She is a mix of several genres, including country, americana, folk & adult contemporary. However, as a vocal coach and singer (loved your rendition of Wicked Games), if you truly want to hear the beauty & depth of Mary Chapin Carpenter's vocals & the mastery of her songwriting (she writes or co-writes all of her songs with very few exceptions, & her album Stones In The Road won the Grammy for Best Country album), then I highly, highly suggest you give yourself the pleasure of listening to Someone Else's Prayer & The Dreaming Road from her Time Sex Love album, The Moon & St. Christopher from Shooting Straight In The Dark album (also has Down at the Twist & Shout), and Between Here and Gone which is the title track from album of the same name. You don't have to react to them, just listen. You'll be thankful you did. They are stunningly beautiful & haunting. Mary Chapin Carpenter is criminally underrated as a singer & song writer these days. She's a gift to both the heart and soul.
"he thinks he'll keep her" and "I fell lucky" are my favorites
Mary Chapin Carpenter is a hoot. She once sang a song to George Jones at the CMA awards that basically said, Hi, you don't know me, but I'm your opening act. It brought down the house. Fun facts, I used to have a CD autographed by Mary but gave it to a friend. And Delia Owens, author of the book "Where the Crawdads Sing" once served me home made chocolate chip cookies and milk on her back porch while we discussed a project. She's a super nice lady.
It wasn't George Jones. I was working in radio at the time, and all of us on staff independently came to the same conclusion of who it was, based on the clues in the song and who we knew could be real jackasses when away from the fans.
@@almostfm I think you're right. My memory is playing tricks on me. I've since read that she was opening for Dwight Yoakam when she wrote the song. And when you look at the original lyrics it kind of leaves no doubt about it (tight jeans, lots of sequins, wears a cowboy hat to hide his bald spot, sings like a frog with a sinus condition). She had some guts to sing it. 🙂
Chapin is great. Back in my radio days, we promoted a concert where she was the opening act (and sang the full NSFW version of the song). Post concert we got to go on her bus for the meet and greet. She was so sweet, and said several times she didn't understand why we wanted to meet her instead of the headliner, until one of us said she absolutely killed on stage.
We all got to pose for pictures, and because I'm pretty tall and she's not, the only way we could get both our heads in the frame was for me to sit down and her to stand behind me. Even so, the top of my head was about even with her mouth. And it's easy to see in the picture which of us had a crush on the other one :-)
Wonderful vocals, wonderful song writer. She had three straight incredible albums (Shooting Straight in the Dark, Come On Come On, Stones in the Road) that launched her into the stratosphere with 5 Grammy Awards.
My favorite song is "Naked to the Eye" from "A Place in the World."
Ah, I haven't heard this in years. Such a fun song! Yes, you would love New Orleans. Live music in so many restaurants and bars and buskers everywhere. I love Cajun music, it makes me so happy! Nothing like spending a Friday evening listening to a good "washboard" band. :)
She is a wonderful song writer and does really nice slower stuff too...
Oh yeah...a fiddle, washboard, cajun accordian, drums and guitar...wish I was in New Orleans now! Fun song by a cool artist...thanks to whoever recommended this!
I just love the fact that there was a Cajun/Zydeco venue in the fancy pants town of Bethesda, MD
Passionate Kisses is another MCC song to add to your fun kitchen dancing
passionate kisses was written by lucinda Williams
Fun to see your reactions to so many of my favorite singers (I’m 62) … had to giggle at your comment about dancing while cooking; I listen to MCC often while cleaning house 😊 because she has SO many of these high-energy songs/music that are partially rooted in old Scots-Irish American immigrants from 17th to 19th century.
Mary Chapin Carpenter is a great entertainer! I Feel Lucky is another great tune
Such a great song. And love the reference to "Jolie Blon", sometimes referred to as the Cajun national anthem!
"Well you learned to dance with your rock'n'roll
You learned to swing with a do-si-do
But you learn to love at the fais-so-do
When you hear a little Jolie Blon"
Love MCC! Don't think it was the album that this song came off of, but I use to listen to her "Come On, Come On" album over and over, back in the day. Good mix of fun songs like this, some good poppie ones, but also some real slow beautiful ones where her voice is just amazing.
Oh, and Mar-i-land, like you said it first.
Yes, there is major accordion in the song, brings it together!
Hello Beth, haven't checked a video from you for a little time, you look healthy and great, i'm glad! You're a great person !!!
Love this song. It's just plain happy.
It's always fun chair dancing together with you Beth. Have wonderful weekend 🌞🎶🌹💙
One of my favorite artists. I've seen her twice live and she is amazing. Listen to more of her music!!! You won't be disappointed
Hi Beth. Thank you for this video. This makes me feel in a moment of quality time, a moment where we're in the process of worshipping God. Thank you, and be blessed.
Her song When Haley Came to Jackson is the most beautiful song ever written.
So underrated. My mom played her all the time growing up. Dreamland is my comfort song. Reminds me of my mom.
Would love to see someone like Zach Bryan do a collab.
Sounds exactly like the album track with some cheering added, hence the invisible accordion. I first heard this song while on vacation in the 1990s and immediately went to a music store to buy the cassette (and CD later). The entire album has great songs, but this is the standout track.
By the way, crawdads are kind of like the cockroaches of the water...the ones I used to get out of the creek when I was a kid looked like miniature lobsters, but they were about 2 inches long and lived in a creek that never got deeper than 2-3 feet. Growing up I had an old Cajun that lived nearby that would buy all the crawdads I could bring him for a nickel apiece.
MCC is a fantastic singer and I was glad to hear you listen to her for the first time. Looking forward to more from you! Thanks!
Her first 4 CD's are very good.
Interesting note. The band referenced in this song is an actual New Orleans Cajun band called Beausoleil. They also played on the recording and are the band featured in this video. The great Mike Doucet on fiddle. As a New Orleans resident, I approve.
I’m so glad you did this! I’ve seen Mary Chapin several times over the past 20 years. She is phenomenal in concert. I’ll try to think of a slow song that she does, that 1:14 would blow your mind.
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Beautiful voice!
The place she's singing about is in Lafayette, Louisiana... definitely not Maryland. ;-)
The Twist & Shout she is singing about was in Bethesda, Maryland.
@@alittlebitgone You are correct sir! She's pining about going to Louisiana. Here are the lyrics:
"Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans
Never have drifted down a bayou stream
But I heard that music on the radio
-----> And I swore some day I was gonna go
Down to Highway 10, past the Lafayette
There's the Baton Rouge and I won't forget
To send you a card with my regrets
'Cause I'm never gonna come back home"
A lot of your reactions lately are bands/singers I saw live in the 80s and 90s. Quite the walk down memory lane. I saw MCC at one of the Lilith Fairs and have been a fan ever since. Thanks Beth! ❤️
Good one! She's great! Another fun song is "I Feel Lucky"
It's so great that you did this song ! I loved this song as a little girl and especially when the Chipmunks did it on their album! One of my favorites by her is also I feel lucky
YES!! Need more bluegrass/country!!! This was so much fun!!! 🤠
I love this song, it is so much fun! Great reaction.
Saw her in concert in Asheville a few years ago with Emmylou Harris. Great stuff! And that's a concertina, traditional in Cajun and Zydeco music.
That's a Louisiana "Cajun" squeeze box giving the accordion sound. The Louisiana Purchase from FRANCE in the early 19th Century gave America a huge land area, hinged to the New Orleans, hence the French immigrant sound, with the squeeze box related to those on Parisian music. The fiddle (violin) sound is also key to this music. Mary Chapin Carpenter was super popular in the 1990s as also has a much better voice than most country music rivals.
Heck yeah, such a fun song!
Yes it is..A major instrument in cajun music
Cajun music. The backing band is Beau Soleil.
I would recommend The Nitty Gritty Dirty Band "Fishin In the Dark"
Ohhh she’s my favorite!!! Love MCC!
MCC was a big star, sadly as is becoming truer every year country music is being taken over by children who all sound the same and have left the best of country behind for pop. Chapin calls out a band called Beau Soleil several times in the lyrics of this song, and they were on stage in this along with her band. Mary is a really talented performer and writer. Love your insight and that smile Beth. Wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
The band in the video is Beau Soleil a very good Zydeco band. You you should check out Passionate Kisses by her.
She was the only non-punk/metal/alt singer I liked in the 90s. And you nailed "Maryland" the first time :)
She sings "except when the paper says 'Beausoleil is coming to town'". The zydeco band she is singing with in the video is actually Beausoleil with the legendry Michael Doucet on fiddle.
Look a ( only a dream) it's really emotional 😢
Una canción muy alegre y te pone de buenas bien Beth 👏👏🍀🍀
She has a beautiful voice. This song doesn't really do it justice. She also does some amazing ballads.
Brilliant !
Another good one i feel lucky .....
Those are cajon instruments in there element...guitsr ,fidal, washboard, , accordian sometimes banho.....raucous ...
React to “I Take My Chances” next, you will LOVE it!
Would love you to do Mary Chapin Carpenter doing her hit cover of John Lennon’s “Grow Old Along With Me” ( if you haven’t yet). Beautiful, beautiful, song! 😁
She is singing about southern Louisiana. I think this was the mid 80s, zydeco and rock not blue grass. Where the crawdadys sing was about this area. Swamp people also. Hank williams also sang about this area. Jambalaya, crawfish pie creole gumbo very old song. Cajun country.
I hear her warmth.
There may be a bar named twist & shout but that term can refer to any place where people gather to twist (dance) & shout (celebrate); alcohol in the mix is not uncommon.
For more zydeco try Zachary Richard "One Kiss". Or really any of his songs. "Cote Blanche Bay", "Who Stole My Monkey", "Crawfish", "Snake Bite Love", "Six Bullets in Satan", etc.
That accordion is a Cajun accordion. It's a type of accordion that was developed in Switzerland, and Louisiana and its music is the last place in the world it's used.
You need to do proper MCC. The Moon and St. Christopher for a start. And if don't do Nanci Griffith then you're missing out big time.
luv that zydeco beat!
Love the elongated o on radio
Aint heard this somg in years
Nice changeup. This song is definitely far more Cajun than country or folk. A very distinctive regional culture and sound.
Mel McDaniels Louisiana Saturday night.
The music is basic “Cajun” not Zydeco. The fiddler is Michael Doucet.. Zydeco music has a different rythym and uses a different accordion. The washboard is an instrument used primarily in Zydeco.
I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. General pronunciation is: MA-ri-lund
There's so many past country singers that blow the doors off any new so called country artists. Randy Travis, Allison Krauss, Vince Gill, Travis Tritt, Martina McBride...there's so much you're missing! You could have a whole month of country and still not cover even a little of it lol
Thank you so much for reacting to her! She's one of my most favorite artists! Mary Chapin Carpenter started out in folk music, but I think fairly quickly got noticed by some country music folks and she had a great country career. Somewhere along the line, country music started to not value women's voices as much, and they also had a period of going super conservative/right wing, so Mary veered back to more folk/roots music. She did a lovely series during the pandemic - thought you might like this: ruclips.net/video/ZcFBfYjMLs4/видео.html Also - Jill Johnson from Sweden!!!! She wrote a song called "It Only took a Minute for my country to love country" - and in the "name drop section" she includedes BEYONCE! I can't tell you how much I loved that. This is a performance from a Swedish summer music series called Allsang pa skansen which has all the great Swedish artists often singing in English, though far from always. ruclips.net/video/XuQRbpCdRl4/видео.html
Shut up and kiss me and I feel lucky are a couple more hits of hers, but I really think you would enjoy taking on some zydeco music. Big energy! When you see a rub board and an accordian you're home!
Have you ever heard of The Rankin Family? You might enjoy them!
An amazing songwriter and singer. Many of her songs are moody and talk about deep feelings, political issues, and growing up. BTW, A Crawdad is not a lobster. It looks like a miniature lobster and is sometimes called a crawfish or a crayfish. Of course, it's not a fish, it's a crustacean and found in freshwater, whereas a lobster lives in the ocean. I saw the movie you mentioned and loved it. I'll watch it again. Maybe there are places in the south where they call them lobster.
her mother was a folk singer
You are correct. This is like a Louisiana version of a Ceili
Funny Song... 😁 Greetings teddynash.
She picked my one year old girl to hold while singing Passionate Kisses
Crawdads and Lobster aren't exactly the same. They look the same, but crawdads are small, like fitting in the palm of the hand small. Also, lobsters are caught in the ocean, and crawdads in river deltas and rivers.
You learn something new every day!
It is a shame that the reviewers choose these early songs - most choose exactly them same track, why I don’t know - when she is more admired for her later tracks like Transcendental Reunion. This Twist And Shout track, in comparison to her later ones, is rather shallow - fun, but shallow. Now, she sings her more “serious” songs which are truly beautiful as she did on her sessions on the Transatlantic Sessions for the BBC some years ago. Try Transcendental Reunion, Why Shouldn’t We, or On And On It Goes with their beautiful lyrics. Choose the album versions for the lovely production.
You need to here hail to the Lion. You will like it.
It's absolutely mind-boggling when I hear people diss country or say they don't listen to it or know it. Folks, country music was being recorded over 100 years ago. Check out Jimmie Rogers for example. I know you like your genres but country likely has decades or even a half century on that stuff you're listening to. So many songs of different flavors for your ears and instruments you've never heard of and styles and "vibes". Country has many sub-genres and hybrid fringe-genres that you're gonna like at least a few. And, it likely influenced a lot of the artists you're hearing, heck they're sampling and covering a lot of country songs and you don't even realize it.
Don't get it twisted as they say, that same dumb commercialized "country" songs you hear on the radio today that we all can't stand is only a grain of sand on a beach of the country music out there and the country music still being made today that for some reason will never make it onto the radio...that's just a whole other can of worms.
Her song "He thinks he'll keep her" is a great early 90s feminist song.
I loved MCC during her day. Knew every word to every song. Yet I’ve never cared for country. I think they didn’t know how to categorize her.
Look at you wobble! ^_^
❤beth
Next: Kacey Musgraves. "Follow Your Arrow" is most highly recommended.
Reacts "This Shirt"
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Could you do 1916 by Motorhead?