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"The Age of Miracles" is the 11th studio album released by American music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter. The album was released on April 27, 2010 on Zoë Records and was produced by Carpenter and Matt Rollings.
The Age of Miracles consists of twelve tracks of new material, all of which were written solely by Mary Chapin Carpenter. In a recent interview, Carpenter explained the album's thematic significance. She commented that the album's title track reflects on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, while the album's seventh track ("Mrs. Hemingway") is about the first wife of author Ernest Hemingway. She also mentioned that the fifth track "4 June 1989" explains the Tiananmen Square Massacre and its remembrance by Chinese activist Chen Gueng.
The Age of Miracles is Carpenter's third album released under the Zoë record label, and is also her first studio album since The Calling in 2007. The album peaked at #6 on the Billboard Magazine Top Country Albums chart and #28 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
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