Tracy Chapman and a Country-Music Controversy - The Atlantic
Jul 23, 2023 · Tracy Chapman’s not a country artist. So of course she’s not going to place on the country charts. And as everyone has pointed out, Chapman’s original did great on the pop and …
Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs Made Musical Magic - The Atlantic
Feb 6, 2024 · The singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, 59, returned to the Grammy Awards 35 years after she won the Grammy for Best New Artist. Her working-class ballad “Fast Car” was …
The Next Great American Road Album Is Here - The Atlantic
Feb 23, 2024 · The songs collage together scenes and observations amid country-rock arrangements that glimmer with reverb and feature loose, lassoing guitar solos.
Country Music Is More Popular—And More Angsty—Than Ever
Aug 8, 2023 · After it began to rise in the charts last month, some commentators pointed out that neither Chapman nor any other Black woman had ever had the kind of success in country …
What Joni Mitchell Proved at the Grammys
Feb 5, 2024 · Evidence of this lineage was elsewhere in the night too, most memorably when the folk singer Tracy Chapman took to the stage after rarely being seen in public in recent years.
Sam Smith Turned Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car' Into a Very Slow Car
Sep 4, 2014 · We usually like Sam Smith's vocals, but he manages to turn one of the great American songs into a lounge act.
The Painful Wait for Jonathan Franzen
Jan 14, 2024 · These songs have their heart on their sleeve and take women’s feelings and interior lives seriously.
The Nation That Janet Jackson Built - The Atlantic
Sep 15, 2014 · By 1989, from Michael Jordan to Eddie Murphy to Tracy Chapman, black popular culture had never been more prominent in the American mainstream.
Reader Views on Press Coverage of Race - The Atlantic
Aug 1, 2023 · I have always liked “Fast Car,” but never really listened to it as much as I have lately, and I have to tell you, I have more appreciation now for Tracy Chapman than before.
Eddie Murphy Is Back - The Atlantic
Nov 22, 2020 · During his SNL monologue last December, Murphy was joined onstage by Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Tracy Morgan, and Kenan Thompson—a living tableau of what Murphy …