Shut Up and Kiss Me (Mary Chapin Carpenter song)
"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. The song also won Carpenter a Grammy Award in 1995 for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Music video. 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. Carpenter had to wear white pants in the song's music video, but she wanted to look good for the video. Shut Up and