Time* Sex* Love*

Time* Sex* Love* is the seventh studio album from American country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was released in 2001 on Columbia Records Nashville as her first full studio album since A Place in the World five years previous. This album produced two singles in "Simple Life," which peaked at #53 on Billboard's Hot Country chart, and "This Is Me Leaving You" which failed to chart. Despite its low airplay ranking, "Simple Life" spent 28 weeks on Billboard's Top 25 Country Singles Sales chart,[8] peaking at #8 on May 5, 2001.[9]

Time* Sex* Love
Studio album by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Released	May 29, 2001
Recorded	November 2000-January 2001, Air Studios, London
Genre	Country
Label	Columbia Nashville
Producer	Mary Chapin Carpenter Blake Chancey John Jennings
Mary Chapin Carpenter chronology
Party Doll and Other Favorites (1999) Time* Sex* Love (2001) Between Here and Gone (2004)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(81/100) [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	(favorable) [2]
Allmusic	[3]
Billboard	(favorable) [4]
Entertainment Weekly	B- [5]
Los Angeles Times	[6]
Q	[1]
Rolling Stone	[1][7]

The album was recorded at George Martin's Air Studios in London.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mary Chapin Carpenter, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Whenever You're Ready"		6:04
2.	"Simple Life"		3:50
3.	"Swept Away"	Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kim Richey	4:47
4.	"Slave to the Beauty"		5:09
5.	"Maybe World"	Mary Chapin Carpenter, Gary Burr	3:52
6.	"What Was It Like"	Mary Chapin Carpenter, Gary Burr	4:01
7.	"King of Love"		5:23
8.	"This Is Me Leaving You"	Mary Chapin Carpenter, John Jennings	3:45
9.	"Someone Else's Prayer"		4:34
10.	"The Dreaming Road"		6:20
11.	"Alone but Not Lonely"		4:24
12.	"The Long Way Home"		4:54
13.	"In the Name of Love"		4:20
14.	"Late for Your Life"		5:38

Hidden track

No.	Title	Length
15.	"Goin' Home" (starting at 7:00 after 1:22 silence on track 14)	5:45
Total length:		72:46

Personnel

• Mary Chapin Carpenter - acoustic guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
• Jon Carroll - Hammond organ, piano, synthesizer, background vocals, Wurlitzer
• David Daniels - cello
• Isobel Griffiths - arranger, conductor, contractor
• Nick Ingman - arranger, conductor, string arrangements
• John Jennings - clevenger bass, 12-string electric guitar, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, electric guitar, hi-string guitar, percussion, programming, slide guitar, tambourine, background vocals
• Patrick Kiernan - violin
• Boguslaw Kostecki - violin
• Peter Lale - viola
• Duke Levine - 12-string electric guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandola, electric sitar, slide guitar
• Rita Manning - violin
• Dave Mattacks - drums, percussion
• Steve Nathan - piano, synthesizer
• Tony Pleeth - cello
• Garrison Starr - background vocals
• Mike Thompson - French horn
• Brice White - viola
• Glenn Worf - bass guitar, clevenger bass, fretless bass
• Gavyn Wright - violin

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2001) Peak position US Billboard 200[10] 52 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[11] 6

Year-end charts Chart (2001) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[12] 47

References

• Allmusic (see infobox)

1. Critic reviews at Metacritic
2. About.com review
3. Allmusic review
4. "Billboard review". Archived from the original on July 17, 2001. Retrieved April 14, 2013.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
5. Entertainment Weekly review
6. Los Angeles Times review
7. "Rolling Stone review". Archived from the original on November 2, 2001. Retrieved April 14, 2013.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
10. "Mary Chapin Carpenter Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
11. "Mary Chapin Carpenter Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
12. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2001". Billboard. Retrieved October 21, 2020.

External links

• Time* Sex* Love* at Metacritic