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Tracy Chapman (Chapman, Tracy, CD)
Tracy Chapman (Chapman, Tracy, CD)
UPC: 075596077422
Format: CD
Release Date: 1988
Record Label: Elektra Entertainment
Genre: Rock & Pop

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). Recorded at Powertrax, Hollywood, California. Tracy Chapman exploded out of the Boston folk scene in the late eighties, carrying the acoustic guitar-playing... | More
 
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Sub-genre: Rock & Pop
Track Listing
1. Talkin' Bout a Revolution - (live)
2. Fast Car - (live)
3. Across the Lines - (live)
4. Behind the Wall - (live)
5. Baby Can I Hold You
6. Mountains O' Things
7. She's Got Her Ticket
8. Why? - (live)
9. For My Lover
10. If Not Now - (live)
11. For You

Details
Playing Time:36 min.
Contributing Artists:David LaFlamme, Paulinho Da Costa
Producer:David Kershenbaum
Distributor:WEA (distr)
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:DDD

Album Notes
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).
Recorded at Powertrax, Hollywood, California.
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.

Editorial Reviews
4 Stars - Excellent - Ranked # 10 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums Of The 80s survey.
Rolling Stone (11/01/1989)

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 (10/31/2002)

Ranked #7 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1988
CMJ (01/05/2004)


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