Mary Chapin Carpenter had a few singles out, the only one charting was “How Do”, which got to 19 on the Billboard Country charts. Her first Top Ten, “Never Had It So Good,” would come in Fall of 1989, but in the Spring of that year, Carpenter was asked to perform a song of hers she’d never recorded, but wrote after an …interesting,,, time touring. A year later, she was on that same stage, accepting New Female Vocalist, two years later, Top Female Vocalist.
