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...teenager, you and Beau would drive to supermarket parking lots, stage a fight to attract a crowd and recite scenes from Catcher in the Rye. Mark David Chapman wasn't that messed...
...itself. The title track comes close, but never fully peaks. Also of note are the poignant, emotive "Less Than Strangers" and "The Only One," a haunting arrangement featuring Emmy Lou Harris on harmony vocals. Most of the other tracks have a tendency to blend into one another. However, while Chapman's stories may not be of the genre that motivates deep discussion and reflection, they're certainly quality bedtime reading...
...Tracy Chapman...
Eleven years after its release and four albums later, the breakout single "Fast Car" remains Tracy Chapman's signature song and biggest hit to date. Nothing on her fifth album, Telling Stories, is going to change or rival that. That said, it is not a bad effort. Bluesy guitars and Chapman's definitive soothing, soulful voice drive the tracks, which range from personal to socio-political, as she tries to return to the intensity and musicality of her early work...
...Chapman, who has a reputation for being excruciatingly shy, is opening up, talking more candidly than she has in the past about her life and growing up poor in Cleveland, Ohio. Her mother divorced when Chapman was young and raised her and her elder sister Aneta alone. "Sometimes there was no electricity, or the gas would be shut off," the singer recalls. "I remember standing with my mother in the line to get food stamps." She eventually won a scholarship to the Wooster School, a private school in Connecticut...