Telling Stories by Tracy Chapman
Best Of Her Best
With Telling Stories, her first album since 1995s 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. Theres maturity here,
exemplified by recurring spiritual metaphors. On Unsung Psalm she
imagines her funeral, singing, Id 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 Id 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 OBrien
Much of Tracy Chapmans 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. This is one of those albums. Its full
of beautiful narratives that leave you wondering about the life behind the
music. Sample Wedding Song: just exquisite blending of harmony an d
guitar, and such simple but profound emotion throughout.
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