Five-time Grammy-winner Mary Chapin Carpenter’s newest studio album, Personal History, deals with just this. The album features some of Carpenter’s most personal writing to date. In early 2025 the 11-song album Personal History was recorded at Real World Studios in Box, England, with Josh Kaufman (Bob Weir, The National, The Hold Steady) producing and a world-class band of musicians: Matt Rollings (piano, Hammond organ, Phillips organ, accordion, xylophone), Duke Levine (electric guitar, hammer dulcimer, Chris Vatalaro (drums, percussion), Cameron Ralston (bass), and Josh Kaufman himself (guitar, organ, harmonium, harmonica). Anais Mitchell lends harmonies to 'Home Is A Song.' Carpenter shared of the album process, "I started writing the songs on this album as the pandemic began winding down; the titular song 'What Did You Miss' pointed the way forward, with its final verse: 'I’ve been writing it down/song by song/as a personal history' when imagining this collection of songs as memoir, and how the wisdom that comes with growing older becomes a north star, whether one is celebrating life’s joys or navigating life’s inevitable losses."