MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER SINGING "I FELL LUCKY" FROM NEW ALBUM COME ON, COME ON

Mary Chapin Carpenter[a] (born February 21, 1958) 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. Carpenter's 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.

Carpenter's most successful album is 1992's Come On Come On, which accounted for seven singles and was certified quadruple platinum in the United States for shipments of four million copies. After a number of commercially unsuccessful albums throughout the late 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, she exited Columbia for Zoë Records. Her first album for this label was 2007's The Calling. She continued to record for Zoë until departing to her own Lambent Light label in 2015.

Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards out of eighteen nominations, including four consecutive wins in the category of Best Female Country Vocal Performance between 1992 and 1995. She has charted 27 times on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, with her 1994 single "Shut Up and Kiss Me" representing her only number-one single there. Her musical style takes influence from contemporary country and folk, with many of her songs including feminist themes. While largely composed of songs she wrote herself or with longtime producer John Jennings, her discography includes covers of Gene Vincent, Lucinda Williams, and Dire Straits among others.

"I Feel Lucky" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was released in May 1992 as the first single from the album Come On Come On. The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1] The Chipettes recorded a cover of this song for the 1992 album Chipmunks in Low Places. It was written by Carpenter and Don Schlitz.

Content
The song tells the story of a woman who repeatedly receives bad omens for the upcoming day: her horoscope warns that "the stars are stacked against" her and to stay in bed, but she disregards it, heads for the convenience store, buys a lottery ticket, cigarettes, a burrito and a root beer, and heads for the park, where a thunderstorm and a voice from the skies warns her to head home. She disregards the voice just as she did with the horoscope saying "I feel lucky."

The lottery ticket turns out to be an $11 million winner, and she heads to the bar to celebrate, where she meets Lyle Lovett and Dwight Yoakam, who both make passes at her. The moral of the story: "the stars might lie, but the numbers never do."

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Come On Come On.[2]

J. T. Brown – bass guitar, background vocals
Mary Chapin Carpenter – vocals
Jon Carroll – piano, backing vocals
John Jennings – acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
Robbie Magruder – drums
Mike McAdam – electric guitar
Music video
The music video was directed by Jack Cole and premiered in mid-1992. It was filmed in the Mojave Desert in California. It begins with a middle-aged couple sitting outside their old RV trailer, each reading a magazine. They notice a shiny Airstream moving toward them, with Mary and her friends as passengers. Mary notices the unpleasant and dry feel of the landscape, and instantly throws an outdoor party complete with catered food, music and dancing. The couple seem surprised and reluctant to all this, and don't pay much attention, but eventually get up and join in. Posters of Dwight Yoakam and Lyle Lovett appear during the verse that mentions them. When the song is near over, a storm cloud appears and Mary Chapin suggests they take the party into the trailer. They do, but only after the male in the couple receives a kiss on the cheek from one of the passengers. Once the trailer leaves, the couple go back to their chairs, as the woman in the couple says to the man regarding the party, "If you ever mention this to anybody, I'll divorce you," before putting their heads back in their magazines.

The majority of the video is in color, but the beginning and ending scenes are in greyscale to give it a deserted and dusty look.

Chart performance
"I Feel Lucky" debuted at number 58 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May 30, 1992.

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