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Tracy Chapman exploded out of the Boston folk scene in the late eighties, carrying the acoustic guitar-playing singer/songwriter mantle to a more political and socially conscious level than had recently been achieved. Her deep alto and throttled vocal delivery, combined with attentively scrutinized social scenarios presented in a simple, accessible manner, rocketed Tracy to the top of the charts and into the Grammy record books. Instrumentally crisp and minimal, TRACY CHAPMAN is a compelling statement from the no-holds-barred black singer/songwriter, stealing the focus away from the popular folk mafia.
Chapman expresses a heretofore unmined black, feminist, disenfranchised point of view--from the helpless-but-hopeful underclass of the smash hit "Fast Car," to the defiant politicos of "Talkin' `Bout A Revolution." In regards to other issues, Tracy responds to Suzanne Vega's "Luka" with her own a capella song about domestic violence, "Behind The Wall"; and the percussive "Mountains O' Things" is about material wealth. But TRACY CHAPMAN is not all social politics; there are several rapturously tender love songs included as well.
There are many strong influences to be heard in Tracy's voice, particularly Joan Armatrading (on "Baby Can I Hold You") and Odetta. Infused with those powerful roots, Chapman dramatically changed the commercial stakes of folk music by blending a catchy, acoustic backdrop to her social rhetoric, and delivering her manifestos in a unique, commanding voice that seemed like a beacon in a sea of mediocrity.
Live Recording
Recorded at Powertrax, Hollywood, California.
Personnel: Tracy Chapman (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, percussion); Jack Holder (guitar, dobro, electric sitar, hammered dulcimer, Hammond organ); Ed Black (guitar); David LaFlamme (electric violin); Steve Kaplan, Bob Marlette (keyboards); Larry Klein (bass); Denny Fongheiser (drums, percussion); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion).
Rolling Stone (10/31/02, p.136) - Ranked # 28 in Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums" - "...[This album] brought some charge back to activist folk rock..."
Rolling Stone (11/89) - 4 Stars - Excellent - Ranked # 10 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The 80s" survey.
CMJ (1/5/04, p.22) - Ranked #7 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1988" Tracy Chapman Music | List Price | $11.98 (You save $1.83) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Rock/Pop, Folk | | Label | Elektra | | Orig Year | 1988 | | All Time Sales Rank |  565  | | CD Universe Part number | 1095499 | | Catalog number | 60774 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 25, 1990 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | David Kershenbaum | | Engineer | Kevin Smith | | Recording Time | 36 minutes | | Personnel | Larry Klein - bass
Denny Fongheiser - drums, percussion
Tracy Chapman - vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, percussion
Bob Marlette - keyboards
Jack Holder - guitar, dobro, electric sitar, hammered dulcimer, Hammond organ
Ed Black - guitar
Steve Kaplan
Also: Paulinho Da Costa, David Laflamme, David Laflamme |
Tracy Chapman Music Review Purchase Tracy Chapman CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Tracy Chapman Crossroads CD (1989)
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On her second album, Tracy Chapman goes the traditional singer-songwriter route--think Carly Simon, James Taylor, etc.--by largely writing about the effects on her life of the unexpected success of her first album. The title track, standard blues imagery aside, is as self-analytical and autobiographical as any one of Joni Mitchell's early '70s albums. Other songs, like "Material World," address the same concerns in more subtle fashion.
Elsewhere, Chapman looks at freedom and oppression in such songs as the Nelson Mandela tribute "Freedom Now" and "All That You Have is Your Soul." Chapman and producer David Kershenbaum add subtle touches like horns, slide guitar (courtesy of Neil Young), and accordion, opening up the guitar-and-voice ...
| | Tracy Chapman Matters Of The Heart CD (1992)
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Chapman's debut and its quickly produced follow-up CROSSROADS sound very much alike. While not a total departure, 1992's MATTERS OF THE HEART has a much different, richer sound. Subtle elements of world music, blues, and jazz enrich the folk-based starkness of the previous records. Unfortunately, this album was slightly too different for many of Chapman's early fans, and the incorrect received wisdom claims that it's a creative misstep.
The more textured arrangements and Jimmy Iovine's slick but not sterile production support Chapman's lyrics ...
| | Tracy Chapman New Beginning CD (1995)
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"Give Me One Reason" won a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. Tracy Chapman earned four additional Grammy nominations for NEW BEGINNING. "Give Me One Reason" was nominated for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and the album was nominated for Best Pop Album.
What made Tracy Chapman's self-titled 1988 debut significant was her ability to bring the troubling stories of America's underbelly to an audience mostly removed from such problems, but eager to listen. Her supremely crafted songs quickly became anthems, making her the first popular African-American singer-songwriter to reach mega-stardom. Seven years later, Chapman's fourth album, NEW BEGINNING, arrives with new stories, while diving into previously unexplored territory.
Chapman's knack for gripping storytelling is most evident on the chilling "Cold Feet," which describes the dangerous choices rational people often make to get ahead. Her protagonist takes only one risk in an otherwise peril-free life, but it turns out to be a fatal one. While we've all heard similar tales, "Cold Feet" forces even the most self-assured listener to examine his/her own decisions. Where NEW BEGINNING differs from her earlier work is Tracy's willingness ...
| | Santana Supernatural CD (1999)
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SUPERNATURAL won the 2000 Grammy Award for Album Of The Year and for Best Rock Album. "Smooth" won the 2000 Grammy Award for Song Of The Year, Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals and for Record Of The Year. "The Calling" won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. "Maria Maria" won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. "El Farol" won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. "Put Your Lights On" won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. "Love Of My Life" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals. "El Farol" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition.
"Corazon Espinado" won the 2000 Latin Grammy Award for Record Of The Year and SUPERNATRUAL won Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. "El Farol" won the 2000 Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
Fans old and new have much to celebrate about SUPERNATURAL, Carlos Santana's Arista Records debut. After several years of quiet in the studio, Santana is joined by his seasoned contemporary Eric Clapton and by such young luminaries as Lauryn Hill, Dave Matthews, Rob Thomas, and Fher (of famed ...
| | VH1 Presents The Corrs Live In Dublin CD (2002)
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This audio document of The Corrs' Dublin homecoming concert has pretty much everything fans of Irish pop could wish for, including an appearance from Bono in his earthly incarnation, fresh from an audience with President George W. Bush. It's to the band's credit that the charismatic singer fails to steal the show, despite creditable efforts via an anthemized version of Ryan Adams' beautifully downtempo "When the Stars Go Blue," and a great, leering rendition of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra's "Summer Wine."
Somewhat more mysteriously, Rolling Stone Ron Wood also turns up on what sounds ...
| | Absinth: The Finest Ambient House CD (2003)
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| | Gipsy Kings Greatest Hits CD (1998)
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GREATEST HITS skims the cream from the recordings the Gipsy Kings made between 1987 and 1993. "Baila Me," "Volara," and "Galaxia" are included, among other Gipsy Kings favorites.
After ten years of playing in the streets, at weddings, and in restaurants, the Gipsy Kings were swept away in a feast of commercial and critical success in the late '80s. By the late '90s, they had sold over 15 million albums worldwide and become one of the best-selling all-Spanish language acts in U.S. history. Their Greatest Hits collection, released in 1998, aptly reflects the time-perfected technique and soulful delivery that allowed them to transcend ethnic and age differences as few bands have. The introductory sequence of songs simply explodes out of the blocks. If consecutive hip-shakers "Djobi, Djoba," "Baila Me," "Bamboleo," "Pida Me La," "Bem, Bem, Maria," and "Volare" don't have you at least tapping your feet, someone ought to take your pulse. The tempo relaxes modestly in the middle section, with slower but equally moving love songs such as "Tu Quieres Volver" and "Mi Manera." The album finishes with a fluid medley of their most popular material. Wisely, seven of the album's 18 tracks were taken from the Gipsy Kings' ...
| | Chain Reconstruct CD (2004)
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| | Jonathan Goldman Celestial Reiki II CD (2004)
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| | Tragically Hip In Between Evolution CD (2004)
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The first few seconds of In Between Evolution offer a summation in miniature of both why the Tragically Hip are so great and why mainstream success has eluded them, at least in the United States. A distorted guitar chimes out a road-ready riff, soon joined by a taut rhythm section. Then lead singer Gordon Downie shouts out "Here's a glue guy, a performance God," in a pinched howl that sounds like it's ready to veer off-key at any second. That combination of arena rock and indie sensibility is exactly what fans have come to expect from the band; the approach isn't all that different from Pearl Jam's more recent work, except that Downie's lyrics have always been, well, weirder and more literate than the hits that took Pearl Jam to the top of the charts. None of that explains why the Hip still sell out stadiums and sell millions of albums in their native Canada, but In Between Evolution is both accessible and challenging enough to satisfy longtime fans and newcomers. The slight dissonance that marks that opening track, "Heaven Is a Better Place Today," fits perfectly the combination of mourning and triumph that the band captures in the song, a tribute to hockey player Dan Snyder, who died in a car crash in late 2003. When Downie sings "If and when you get into that end zone, act like you've been there a thousand times before," he breathes new life into the tired sports cliché because what's come before is so evocative and honestly rendered, and also because there's not another cliché ...
| | Park Avenue Music For Your Home Or Office CD (2003)
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| | Zero Dry Flower/Tsukino Kagayakuyoruni CD (2007) (Import)
$34.15 | | Radiohead: Limited Edition Box Set CDs (2007) Limited Edition; Box Set
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Issued during late 2007, just as Radiohead independently released IN RAINBOWS in groundbreaking pay-what-you-will format, this seven-disc EMI box set compiles all previous full-length albums by the revered British art-rock band. Ranging from 1993 to `03, the collection tracks the timeline of the group's artistic progression, featuring the formative PABLO HONEY and its majestic follow-up, THE BENDS, along with the ambitious OK COMPUTER, the challenging KID A, and subsequent like-minded outings. Although HONEY and the I MIGHT BE WRONG live recording aren't top-shelf Radiohead, the set's other albums are essential for true ...
| | Heather Masse Many Moons CD (2008)
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New York-based singer song-maker Heather Masse grew up in rural Maine and began singing at an early age. Having taken a degree in Jazz Voice from the New England Conservatory of Music, Heather is steeped in the jazz tradition, which informs her distinct approach to singing music of all sorts. She is a member of the acclaimed Juno-award winning Canadian band “The Wailin' Jennys”, and has performed at 100s of venues across the country including appearances on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. She has performed with the renowned contemporary bluegrass band "The Wayfaring Strangers," and has appeared at venues including NPR's World Cafe, and Boston's Symphony Hall, sharing the stage with the Boston Pops Orchestra. In 2006, she recorded an eponymous album ...
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