Mary Chapin Carpenter

One-hit wonder or not, every country artist has more to offer than just one song.

She was honored for her songwriting.

The two celebrated singer-songwriters are headed to a city near you later this year.

Carpenter's brand-new album, 'The Dirt and the Stars', offers 11 brand-new songs and is her first completely new studio album since 2016.

Additionally, Jennifer and Kristian announced a live EP will be available on Feb. 28.

Some of country music's biggest stars have released serious protest songs over the years.

John Jennings — known for his work with Mary Chapin Carpenter in the 1980s — died on Friday (Oct. 16) of kidney cancer at a hospice center in Rockville, Md. He was 61.

Mary Chapin Carpenter has written a host of new songs for her next album that she plans to begin recording at the end of January. As she continues to tour behind her 2010 album 'The Age of Miracles,' she's even debuting a few of the new songs that might make the final cut. Although she notes the album process is at the embryonic stage, she says she can begin to feel it taking shape.