Mary Chapin Carpenter filled up a lot of her weekends this summer with tour dates — not surprising because it’s something most artists who’ve built any kind of a career in country music do just about every year.
But for Chapin, it’s all a little different this time around. The tour accompanies her first album in three years, titled The Age Of Miracles, and a miracle is a good way to describe her ability to tour at all.
In April 2007, she suffered a pulmonary embolism, a blockage in the primary artery in the lung. She had to cancel all of her concerts for the year and undergo surgery. It also put her career on a lengthy pause — the constant travel involved in touring can be physically taxing, and weak lungs don’t exactly match up well with that part of the job.
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