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Telling Stories
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MSRP: $7.98
Your Price: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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Additional Telling Stories Information
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With Telling Stories, her first album since 1995's New Beginnings, Tracy Chapman returns to the spare, unsentimental feel of her early work. In doing so, she recaptures some of the urgency and simple melodiousness that made her debut a soulful folk-rock classic. There's maturity here, exemplified by recurring spiritual metaphors. On "Unsung Psalm" she imagines her funeral, singing, "I'd have a halo and flowing white robes / If I live right." "Wedding Song" offers the plainspoken, devotional line, "I reach out for your hand / For you I'd don a veil." The musical arrangements, too, are pared-down, with ghostly banjo, silvery fiddle, and guitar woven into subtle drum loops. Though not as immediately captivating as her debut, Telling Stories is a focused return to form for Chapman. --Lucy O'Brien
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What Customers Say About Telling Stories:
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SOMEWHERE OUT THERE IS A THIEF, EITHER ENJOYING MY DAUGHTERS CD COLLECTION OR BUYING SOME @#&.ING DRUGS WITH THEM. SO REGARDLESS, WE HAVE FORGIVEN YOU. T.C. IS GOOD STUFF, GOT MORE COMIN'.
It doesn't get better than this. The album ranks in my top 5 favorites with 2 songs (Telling Stories and Unsung Psalm) in my top 5 favorite songs ever. Soul shattering and rebuilding. I'm a country white boy, go figure; who knew.
This is a great CD. Unfortunately it's one of the few Tracy Chapman CDs that you can't download off of iTunes, so you'll probably have to buy the CD itself and burn it onto your computer if you want to listen to it on an MP3 player.
It's Tracey Chapman.great from start to finish.a little bit of everything, in true Tracey style.
This is one of those albums. Much of Tracy Chapman's music seems to work best for me when I let it creep up on me; I find myself caught by a phrase she wove into a song, or surprised by the little inflections of her voice that reveal such a depth of observation. I reach over and reset the track to hear it again, and yet another of her stories has claimed me. It's full of beautiful narratives that leave you wondering about the life behind the music. Sample Wedding Song: just exquisite blending of harmony and guitar, and such simple but profound emotion throughout.
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