Shooting Straight in the Dark

Shooting Straight in the Dark is American country music singer Mary Chapin Carpenter's third studio album. It was a #11 Country Album on the Billboard Country Albums chart. Four of its tracks became Billboard Hot Country Songs hits: "You Win Again" at #16, "Right Now" at #15, "Down at the Twist and Shout" at #2, and "Going Out Tonight" at #14. Members of the Cajun band BeauSoleil provide guest instrumentation on "Down at the Twist and Shout".

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Mary-Chapin Carpenter execpt "Going out Tonight" (written by Mary-Chapin Carpenter and John Jennings) and "Right Now" (written by Al Lewis and Sylvester Brad ford).

"Going out Tonight" - 3:16
"Right Now" - 2:36
"The More Things Change" - 3:56
"When She's Gone" - 5:05
"Middle Ground" - 3:51
"Can't Take Love for Granted" - 4:01
"Down at the Twist and Shout" - 3:21
"Halley Came to Jackson" - 3:10
"What You Didn't Say" - 4:36
"You Win Again" - 3:59
"The Moon and St. Christopher" - 4:21
- duet with Shawn Colvin

[edit] Personnel

As listed in liner notes.^[1]

Peter Bonta – keyboards, piano, acoustic guitar, bass guitar
Jimmy Breaux – Accadian accordion, Cajun yells
Mary-Chapin Carpenter – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Jon Carroll – piano, acoustic guitar
Shawn Colvin – background vocals
Mike Cotter – background vocals
Don Dixon – bass guitar, background vocals
Michael Doucet – fiddle, Cajun yells
John Jennings – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, background vocals, Cajun yells
Marti Jones – background vocals
Robbie Magruder – drums
John McCutcheson – hammer dulcimer
Mark O'Connor – fiddle
Dave Palamar – drums
Herb Pedersen – background vocals
Rico Petruccelli – bass guitar
Matt Rollings – piano
Vince Santoro – drums
Billy Ware – percussion, Cajun yells