Shooting Straight in the Dark

Infobox Album | Name = Shooting Straight in the Dark
Type = studio
Artist = Mary-Chapin Carpenter


Released = 1990
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 42:12
Label = Columbia
Producer = John Jennings
Mary-Chapin Carpenter
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wp0xlffegcqo link]
Last album = "State of the Heart"
(1989)
This album = "Shooting Straight in the Dark"
(1990)
Next album = "Come On Come On"
(1992) |

"Shooting Straight in the Dark" is American country music singer Mary Chapin Carpenter's third studio album. It was a #11 Country Album on the Billboard Country Albums chart. Four of its tracks became Billboard Hot Country Songs hits: "You Win Again" at #16, "Right Now" at #15, "Down at the Twist and Shout" at #2, and "Going Out Tonight" at #14. Members of the Cajun band BeauSoleil provide guest instrumentation on "Down at the Twist and Shout".

Track listing

All songs written by Mary-Chapin Carpenter; except where indicated

#"Going out Tonight" (Carpenter, John Jennings) - 3:16
#"Right Now" (Al Lewis, Sylvester Bradford) - 2:36
#"The More Things Change" - 3:56
#"When She's Gone" - 5:05
#"Middle Ground" - 3:51
#"Can't Take Love for Granted" - 4:01
#"Down at the Twist and Shout" - 3:21
#"Halley Came to Jackson" - 3:10
#"What You Didn't Say" - 4:36
#"You Win Again" - 3:59
#"The Moon and St. Christopher" - 4:21
#*duet with Shawn Colvin

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. [cite album-notes |title=Shooting Straight in the Dark |bandname=Mary-Chapin Carpenter |year=1990 |format=CD |publisher=Columbia Records |publisherid=CK 46077]
*Peter Bonta – keyboards, piano, acoustic guitar, bass guitar
*Jimmy Breaux – Accadian accordion, Cajun yells
*Mary-Chapin Carpenter – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
*Jon Carroll – piano, acoustic guitar
*Shawn Colvin – background vocals
*Mike Cotter – background vocals
*Don Dixon – bass guitar, background vocals
*Michael Doucet – fiddle, Cajun yells
*John Jennings – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, background vocals, Cajun yells
*Marti Jones – background vocals
*Robbie Magruder – drums
*John McCutcheson – hammer dulcimer
*Mark O'Connor – fiddle
*Dave Palamar – drums
*Herb Pedersen – background vocals
*Rico Petruccelli – bass guitar
*Matt Rollings – piano
*Vince Santoro – drums
*Billy Ware – percussion, Cajun yells

References