Author: TRACY CHAPMAN

Format: Enhanced

Release Date: 2000-02-15

Details: Amazon.ca Telling Stories is Chapman's first album in over four years. With this collection she has gone back to the spare, unsentimental feel of her early work, recapturing some of the urgency and simple melody lines that made her 1988 self-titled debut such a classic. There's maturity here, and a strong sense of spiritual metaphor. On "Unsung Psalm", for instance, she imagines her funeral, singing: "I'd have a halo and flowing white robes / If I live right", while "Wedding Song" has the devotional line: "I reach out for your hand / For you I'd don a veil". The musical arrangements, too, are pared-down, with ghostly bluegrass banjo, silvery fiddle and guitar woven into subtle drum loops. Though not as immediate as her debut, it's Chapman's most focused work in a long time. --Lucy O'Brien Product Description Over the course of four albums, Tracy Chapman has sold over thirteen million albums worldwide, won four Grammy Awards and garnered tremendous acclaim from fans around the globe. Now, coming off the four-times platinum New Beginning with its number one single "Give Me One Reason", she returns with Telling Stories, an album blossoming with the same potent lore that has become her esteemed trademark. Certified at 500 thousand units by the RIAA. (2/01)

UPC: 075596247825

EAN: 0075596247825

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood