Time* Sex* Love*

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Time* Sex* Love*
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Studio album by
Mary Chapin Carpenter
ReleasedMay 29, 2001 (2001-05-29)
RecordedNovember 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)
The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic (81/100) [1]
Review scores
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About.com (favorable) [2]
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Billboard (favorable) [4]
Entertainment Weekly B− [5]
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Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1] [7]

Time* Sex* Love* is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, released by Columbia Nashville on May 29, 2001. It rose to No. 6 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and produced two singles: "Simple Life," which peaked at No. 53 on the Hot Country Songs 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 No. 8 on May 5, 2001. [9]

Contents

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.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Whenever You're Ready" Mary Chapin Carpenter, Gary Burr 6:04
2."Simple Life" 3:50
3."Swept Away"Carpenter, Kim Richey 4:47
4."Slave to the Beauty" 5:09
5."Maybe World"Carpenter, Gary Burr3:52
6."What Was It Like"Carpenter, Gary Burr4:01
7."King of Love" 5:23
8."This Is Me Leaving You"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.TitleLength
15."Goin' Home" (starting at 7:00 after 1:22 silence on track 14)5:45
Total length:72:46

Personnel

Charts

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