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    Buy the Tracy Chapman!!
    (Even at full price)
    
    -Scott

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    <Buy the Tracy Chapman!!>
    
    Why?
    

re: why buy the Tracy Chapman album.

Because it is great.  :�>

Here's a little more info...  Tracy Chapman sings what might
be described as Black folk songs, though some of her songs wear
that label better than others.  She has a remarkably deep and
interesting contralto voice.  At one time she was a street performer
in the Boston area and attended Tufts.

If you've listened to the radio lately or watched MTV/VH1 you've
probably heard her song "Fast Car".  "Talking about a Revoloution"
is good too; it's sort of a protest song, but TC seems to resist
being called a protest singer.  "Last Night (I heard the screaming)"
is an a capella song about an abused woman; I can picture it being
sung in an echoey T station.  I also like the songs "Can I hold you"
and "Mountains of Things".

R.

>    Has anyone heard anything about the new Tracy Chapman or Face-To-Face
>    CDs?  They are currently on sale at Lechmere and am wondering how
>    they are.
    
Well, if you liked the first 2 albums by Face To Face (particularly the 
"mellower" cuts), you'll like their new album "One Big Day". I actually
like this new album better than the first two, probably because the music
is "consistent" (i.e. all "mellower" cuts). The background music has 
changed, but is hard to quantify (kind of a cowboy western beat to it at
times). 

    Here's another strong recommendation for Tracy Chapman's debut album. 
    I saw her a couple years ago when she opened for a couple other folkies
    (Shawn Colvin, I think, and Patty Larkin) at the Somerville Theater. 
    All the songs I remember from that gig are on the album, as well as
    excellent new songs like "Fast Car."  The rock arrangements of the
    folk-like material are well done.  She does her own guitar-playing on
    the album too; no studio wizard taking all of it over.  It's fine music
    with a social conscience, and it's even getting airplay!

    
    
    I would also recommend buying the Tracy Chapman cd. It's relaxing
    music, with a great message. Sounds a little like Joan Armatrading's
    more 'folkier' songs. 
    
    Great Music!
    
    							Dave

    She appeared in the Mandela concert Saturday. I had never heard
    her before. Her style reminded me very much of c1960s folk singers. The
    one that comes to mind is the singer who made "...Fell off the Tallahatchie
    Bridge" famous. I remarked to my kids that it was the first time i
    recalled a black urban folk singer. I am interested in hearing more
    of her. At this point, if I could find a $2-$5 vinyl or cassette,
    i would buy it. Am not ready to spend the $10-$12 a CD would cost.

    RE: .8
    
     You're thinking of "Ode To Billie Joe", by Bobbie Gentry. Fine
    voice....
    
    RE: .0
    
     I believe the latest issue of Rolling Stone has a decent article
    on Tracy Chapman - it convinced me to buy latest, and I'm not sorry....
    
    
    
    
                                Ken
    

    
    I bought the Tracy Chapman CD from Lechmere.  What a deal (better price
    than even NoteWorthy) !!  Great music if you like Joan Armatraden, then
    you'll like TC.
    
    -MichaelYee
    

    and the price was...?
    

    
    The price at Lechmere is $10.98.  I bought the Face-to-Face CD and
    it is really good.  A touch of country twang.  It's nice to support
    local bands.

    Yup, 'tis very good indeed!
    
    A

    
    I have a few albums at home by a band called Face to Face. This
    band is very hard rock oriented and sounds a little like AC/DC.
    They may even be Aussie I'm not sure, anyway could we be talking
    the same band? It's been a few years since they put anything new
    out. Just curious
    

    
    Face To Face is a band from Boston.  The lead singer's name is Laurie
    Sargent.  I think you may be thinking of some other band, because
    although they have done some harder rock songs, I wouldn't say it
    was like AC/DC.  Probably they're best known song to date is off
    their first album, called "10-9-8".  Hopefully, this new album will
    take off.

    Tracy's album is fantastic it a full digital recording and sounds
    great and the music ain't bad either.
    
    
    		John
    
    p.s. Lechmere had it on sale for 10.99 as of Sunday the 19th.
         the one in the Pheasent Lane Mall So Nashua & mnot tax.
    

    
    Tracy is IT.  Her music is moving, touching, spiritual, political,
    full of compassion and complete honesty.
    
    She lives in Cambridge.  There have been a couple of articles I've
    read about her in Rolling Stone.
    
    Her music isn't false...it's refreshing.  It is thoughtful.  It
    is beautiful.
    
    
    - Michele
    

    But be aware that the CD is only 36 mins long.

    There is a short story in the June 21 issue of _Newsweek_ about
    Tracy Chapman.
    
    -Monty-

    How is Tracy Chapman and Face to Face related, or are they?
    
    Is the latest release by Tracy her only release?
    
    thanks,
            Don

    
    Re: .20
    
    No connection other than both started out in Boston.
    
    Tracy has only the one album in release.
     
    

    Being from Boston I usually try to give my support for the local bands.
    Face to Face have certainly come a long way from the ear candy of their
    first album, if the new single from the new album is any indication
    (their videos have gone up in quality, by the same evidence).
    
    Tracy Chapman, on the other hand, is so caught up in her own apparent
    importance that it invades her music and turns it into more silly
    let's-take-ourselves-too-seriously folk music.  (Disclaimer: I like
    folk music, at least things like Planxty, Steeleye Span and Fairport
    Convention, so I really can't be accused of bias)  For someone who was
    supposed to be the new Suzanne Vega, she totally underwhelmed me.
    
    /joe
    "Debbie Gibson: the Kate Bush of the 90's"
    

    re .22
    
    I couldn't disagree with you more.  Far from being "caught up in
    her own apparent importance" Tracy's lyrics show that the importance
    is in the message.  I am truly at a loss to understand how you think
    she is singing "silly let's-take-ourselves-too-seriously folk music",
    unless you find apartheid, wife beating, poverty, despair, and
    revolution for social change, etc. to be silly and/or insignificant
    topics.
    
    Helena

    I think her desire to be relevant is greater than her ability to
    frame her point of view in anything more substantial than awkward,
    albeit earnest, high school poetry. Her voice, reminiscent of
    Joan Armatrading, is a pleasure, her lyrics, while I would agree
    deal with legitimate social ills, are fairly pedestrian. 

    re:.22
    
    �For someone who was supposed to be the new Suzanne Vega, she
    totally underwhelmed me.�
    
    There was at least one industry magazine that thought the same
    of Suzanne Vega supposedly being "the new Joni Mitchell". They
    also felt that Vega wasn't even the "real" Suzanne Vega -- Jane
    Siberry was. Disclaimer: I love all three (Mitchell, Vega, and
    Siberry), so don't flame me if you disagree.
    
    re: Tracy Chapman
    
    I hadn't heard any of her songs until a couple of weeks ago, when
    I saw a video on MTV. It was fairly good, but it didn't grab me
    quite enough to want to pick up the album. If I see the CD used,
    though, I may buy it.
    
    --- jerry

    re: 22
    
    "Debbie Gibson, the Kate Bush of the 90's ..." ??? HUH ?
    
    Is this a facetious remark, or what ? Kate Bush is the most progressive
    artists in England today, and will most probably continue through
    the nineties .....
    
    On the other hand, what does teeny-bop pop have to do with Kate
    Bush, and vice versa ...
    
    If I'm confused, please let me know ?
    
    - Andy