Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American country and folk music singer-songwriter. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C.-area clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records. Although her first album, 1987’s Hometown Girl, did not produce any charting singles, she broke through with 1989’s State of the Heart and 1990’s Shooting Straight in the Dark.

Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.