Charles Road – Mass Appeal
Dr Neanderthal – Introduction
NarkotroniK – Excarnation of the Living
East Ghost – Tobacco Teeth
STROMA – SC Jam
#KNO-1 – Super Star
Adam Stamper – Voyage of the Funnel Frogs
Country Gentlemen – Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
Jordan Clawson – Yes You Can
Kindlewood – Mon Ami
Aaron Agre – Know-Say
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen – Chief Taghkanic
Outputmessage – Pillars (Will Eastman Remix)
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Oh Rosetta
The Grit Pushers – Last Call
Disco Muerte – Lullaby
Gorazde – Nomad Codes
Cheick Hamala Diabate – Djiri Mardje
Higher Hands – Re​-​Introduction
Ronny Smith – City Groove

Soleaux – Graffiti
Jackie and The Treehorns – Window
Bardoe – Flip It
Kid Claws – Link
Lenorable – Ligeia
Diggs Duke – Love Breeds Love
Wes Felton – Never
Gorazde – Nomad Codes
Gordon Withers – 2.9
Lands – Sometimes
Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes Septet – Thaddish
U.S. Royalty – Valley of the Sun
The Harry Bells – Love, Love Alone (Honest Lee Naive Tongues remix)
Caroline Ferrante – What a Day
Jon Miller – Know
Trouble Funk – Trouble Funk Express (Instrumental)
Tom McBride – Spinnaker
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Livingston
Cecily featuring Tabi Bonney – Heaven In Your Eyes (Instrumental)
Fat Kneel – Role Reversal

Brian Wilbur Grundstrom – An Orchestral Journey
Jon Miller – Swimming
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Come On Come On
So Spirited – Lifted
Arlin Godwin – Bangkok Matinee
Vanessa Renee Williams – We’re Together
Cynthia Marie – Harbor
Ben Williams – Strength And Beauty
Olivia Neutron-John – 16 BEAT
Nitemoves – Port au Prism
Fellowcraft – Glass Houses
Foozle – Sofa Couch
The Jennifers – Christmas In Reverse – Instrumental
Mirror Factory – Sold
Fort Knox Five – Reach (Instrumental)
Fulton Lights – If You Can Make It Through the Dark
Fellow Creatures – Expectations
Sam Cooper & The Sleepwalkers – Worship
Lungfish – Necrophones
Big Moth – Dim

Ocobaya – Messix
ROM – jerry princess taste
Aaron Tinjum and the Tangents – Roving Instrumental / Interlude #1
Opus Akoben – Babies
Stephen Allen Kochersperger – The Quest
Lisa Ann Wright – Lucinda
Wes Swing – Dilate
Matt Rippitoe – Ladybugs
Drop Electric – Santo Domingo
Asparagus Media – Dubalicious
Jonathan Parker – Sundown
Sol Power All-Stars – Djidjo Vide
Letzkus Lanou – Glory
Troy and Paula Haag – Lies & Cries
Mary Chapin Carpenter – I Am A Town
The Meer – Canopy
A Tale Of – We Rise and We Fall
Griefloss – Charon
Marian McLaughlin – Even Magic Falters
Patuxent Partners – Washington County

Ben Dransfield – Slow Motion
Columbia Nights – Cerulean
Akira Otsuka – Bash
B Side Shuffle – Tiny Magnets
Smoke Bellow – Middling 1
Little Hunts – Refractory
Terrill Mast – See You Around the Moon
Paul Swartzel – My Father Knew Colonel Sanders
Big Moth – Vulnerable
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Deep Deep Down Heart
The Evens – Cache Is Empty
Ken & Brad Kolodner – The Orchard
Black Dog Prowl – Shame
Roger Aldridge – Salt Marsh Rag
makeup girl – Disappointed
Jason A Mullinax – Octopus Tree
Aaron Agre – Lion of Fallujah
The Red Fetish – South Virginia
Harry Jay Smith and the Bling – Homegrown
Buildings – You Are Gone

Sam Phillips – Differences
Tom Espinola – Gold Rush / Cherokee Shuffle
Alex Byrd – Jamais Vu
Wytold – Move On
Aaron Agre – Know-Say
Body Thief – Twin Flames
Mark Meadows – Know NowThe Rail Runners – The Takeback
June Gloom – dealer
Memphis Gold – Serves Me Right
Otis Infrastructure – Tearerdowner
The Soul Searchers – If It Ain’t Funky
Tideland – Desolate
Le Loup – Morning Song
B Side Shuffle – Gauntlet
Waltz Brigade – Strange Names
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Willie Short
Beach House – Lover of Mine
M.H. & His Orchestra – Cobblestone
Louis Weeks – Clementine

The Soul Searchers – Ain’t It Heavy
Cecily featuring Tabi Bonney – Heaven In Your Eyes (Instrumental)
MILK$ – Wonder Woman
Nacey – Tripping In Half Moon Bay
Diggs Duke – Love Breeds Love
Brûlée – Raincloud
Little Hunts – Jumping Jacks
Ben Williams – Toy Soldiers
Dane Paris – Dialogue
Akira Otsuka – White OrchidZenon Slawinski – No Support
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Oh Rosetta
David King – Jewels
igloo two – the big ego scene
Aaron Agre – Cloud Empty (Selenelion) I
Incredible Change – Every Every Day
Power Pirate – Infecting Us
Alex Byrd – Webignarly
Deleted Scenes – Seasons of the Wire
Julius Jetson – Eclipse

Ben Williams – Lost & Found feat. Christian Scott
Fields Burning – Maysong
Steiner – Twisted and Broken
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Livingston
Aaron Agre – Nocturne
Todo Mas – Aftermath
Q and Not U – When the Lines Go Down
The Soul Searchers – Ashley’s Roachclip
Dale Holmes – The Huntress
Terrill Mast – Wings (feat. Jed Lingat & Radhika Bhatt)
Nunchucks – Zebra
Coatsworth-Hay – 1682 Doves
Drive TFC – Summertime Unkind
Misun – Promise Me
Deleted Scenes – Ithaca
Eric Maring – A Fine Balance
Akira Otsuka – First Tear
Terracotta Blue – Silver Nights
Machines on Vacation – Waving Goodbye
The Fuss – Just For Show

Maps and well-traveled routes pop up often in Mary Chapin Carpenter‘s 14th full-length album. They do all their usual things — trace her memories, map her heart, lead her home — but most importantly they’re incomplete. If The Things That We Are Made Of sees the country veteran searching for memories to inscribe and old roads to rut, it finds her most often looking toward the unknown with grace and breaking fecund ground with top producer Dave Cobb.

The Things That We Are Made Of is surprising, even for a singer-songwriter of Carpenter’s standing. From the Music Row sheen and twang of her ’90s output to her time in adult-contemporary purgatory, she’s seen the sun rise and set on several country sounds. Carpenter’s work with Cobb situates her squarely in the latest: the unassuming Americana that must run in the pipes beneath Cobb’s Low Country Sound studio. The producer’s strongest work lies in stripping Carpenter’s arrangements back from the orchestral turn she took on Songs From The Movie and filling the space once occupied by compressed Telecasters with the cavernous electrics, subtle atmospherics and dry, woody acoustics of the Sturgill/Isbell/Stapleton moment.

Carpenter, then, has the space she needs to showcase the voice and lyrics that have sustained her since her commercial peak. Able as ever with melodies, she keeps her lines unfussy and repetitive to emphasize her words. She fills nearly every space she can with lyrics, delivered in a slow vibrato that flickers between breath and tone. The result can be overwrought at times, but most often Carpenter communicates clearly, with stirring straightforwardness that commands Cobb’s yielding production.

The Things That We Are Made Of sketches a rough journey in middle age. Carpenter sings of the periods following the kind of late-in-life unmoorings — in her case, a near-death experience and a divorce — that disrupt a settled perspective. She reckons with doubt and recapitulates small memories of great importance; she pieces together a new story from bits of the old. “Deep Deep Down Heart” and “Hand On My Back” form the apex of the record’s dark night and Carpenter’s loose thread of losing her own narrative and coming to grips with uncertainty.

The last three songs represent the album’s well-earned reconciliation while providing its finest moments. “The Blue Distance” finds light in an unknown where before she’d found loneliness: “In the blue distance where our lives unfurl / At the edges of the sky, the beauty of the world.” Her album plays out both sides of that classic country gesture at the unknown — darkness and latent enlightenment — and by emphasizing both, she accomplishes what sounds like a transformation. She arrives where she starts, at the title song. In the process, she makes you believe that the lucky end of the stories we tell ourselves is the ability to look through memories and find real acceptance — the things we’re made of and the strength to set off again.

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