Shut up and Kiss Me (song)

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Name = Shut up and Kiss Me


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Artist = Mary Chapin Carpenter
Album = Stones in the Road
Released = 1994
Format = CD single
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Genre = Country
Length = 3:40
Label = Columbia
Writer = Mary Chapin Carpenter
Producer = Mary Chapin Carpenter
John Jennings
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Last single = "I Take My Chances"
(1994)
This single = "Shut up and Kiss Me"
(1994)
Next single = "Tender When I Want to Be"
(1995)
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"Shut up and Kiss Me" is the title of a song recorded by American country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter on her 1994 studio album "Stones in the Road". The song served as that album's lead-off single, and became her only Number One hit on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts; it also peaked at #90 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song features singer Lee Roy Parnell accompanying on slide guitar, Benmont Tench on piano and Trisha Yearwood providing backing vocals. [ cite journal | last =Ridley |first=Jim |year=1994 |month=10 |title ="Stones in the Road" review | journal=New Country |pages=56-57 |issn=1074-536x |accessdate=2008-06-04] The song also won Carpenter a Grammy Award in 1995 for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. [cite web |url=http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=MARY|CHAPIN|CARPENTER&sql=11:wvfwxqq5ldse~T52 |title=Mary Chapin Carpenter - Grammy Awards |accessdate=2008-08-10 |work=Allmusic]

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