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1994 single by Mary Chapin Carpenter
"Shut Up and Kiss Me" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter . It was released in August 1994 as the first single from her album Stones in the Road . The song became her only number one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs ) charts on November 19, 1994; it also peaked at number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100 . The song features Lee Roy Parnell accompanying on slide guitar , Benmont Tench on piano , Don Dixon on bass, Kenny Aronoff on drums, and Trisha Yearwood providing backing vocals.[2] The song also won Carpenter a Grammy Award in 1995 for Best Female Country Vocal Performance .[3]
Music video [ edit ]
The music video was directed by Michael Salomon and premiered in late 1994. It features Carpenter wearing a black shirt and white pants singing the song with a band in a studio, and a resting dog. Parnell also appears in the video doing the guitar solo on a TV monitor.
Chart positions [ edit ]
Year-end charts [ edit ]
Chart (1994)
Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM )[8]
41
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