Mary Chapin Carpenter,”The Dirt and the Stars” (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)- “The Dirt and the Stars” is Mary Chapin Carpenter’s first collection of freshly minted new material since 2016’s critically acclaimed “The Things That We Are Made Of,” and a more impressive introduction to her thought-provoking brand of music-making would be difficult to imagine. The five time Grammy Award winning artist’s latest batch of musings on the human condition were recorded live at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath, giving them a warmth and immediacy which sets them apart from the work of many of Carpenter’s contemporaries in the singer-songwriter field.