Time* Sex* Love*
| Time* Sex* Love* | ||||
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| Studio album by Mary Chapin Carpenter | ||||
| Released | May 29, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | November 2000–January 2001 | |||
| Studio | AIR (London, UK) | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Columbia Nashville | |||
| Producer | Mary Chapin Carpenter Blake Chancey John Jennings | |||
| Mary Chapin Carpenter chronology | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (81/100) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| About.com | (favorable) |
| AllMusic | |
| Billboard | (favorable) |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | |
Time* Sex* Love* is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, released by Columbia Nashville on May 29, 2001. It rose to No. 6 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and produced two singles: "Simple Life," which peaked at No. 53 on the Hot Country Songs chart, and "This Is Me Leaving You", which failed to chart. Despite its low airplay ranking, "Simple Life" spent 28 weeks on Billboard's Top 25 Country Singles Sales chart, peaking at No. 8 on May 5, 2001.
The album was recorded at George Martin's AIR Studios in London.
The asterisks in the title refer to a comment producer John Jennings made about the album's content: "Time is the great gift; sex is the great equalizer; love is the great mystery"