Tracy Chapman (1988) [VINYL]

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Beware: if you start listening you may end up seeking out this album on vinyl and they are a bit pricey! (But it’s worth it)

Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, Side B runout): ST-E-60774-B-DMM-3 (2 & 3 strikethrough) 96-7741-B MASTERDISK 1-6 SP-CAN Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 4): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-B2 18 MASTERDISK SP-GER V ST-E-60774-B-DMM-2 Chapman has often spoken of a strong separation between her personal and professional life, saying: "I have a public life that's my work life and I have my personal life. In some ways, the decision to keep the two things separate relates to the work I do."

Matrix / Runout (Variant 3, Side A runout): ST-E-60774-A-DMM-3 SPI-10 96-7741-AX1 MASTERDISK SP-CAN Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 4): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-A2 34 MASTERDISK ST-E-60774-A-DMM-2 SP3-5 I love books, I love reading, and I basically grew up in a public library. I’ve always loved poetry, music was always in the house, and there was such a range of different music around." In 2009, she said: "I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests and I basically try to do what I can. And I have certain interests of my own, generally an interest in human rights." Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 8): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-A2xx 49 ST-E-60774-A-DMM-2 SP 3-5 SP-GER MASTERDISK

Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 9): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-B ST-E-60771-B-DMM-1 MASTERDISK SP-GER Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 15): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-A2xx ST-E-60774-A-DMM-1 MASTERDISK 67 SP.3-5 SP GERMatrix / Runout (Variant 3, Side B runout): ST-E-60774-B-DMM-3 (2 & 3 strikethrough) 96-7741-B MASTERDISK 1-7 SP-CAN Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 14): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-B2 ST-E-60774-B-DMM-1 2-5 MASTERDISK SP-GER Chapman was as self-effacing in real life as she was singing from behind the characters in her songs. She hated interviews, almost never bantered on stage, and wasn’t shy about her displeasure at being coded a “protest singer.” And unlike folk artists like Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez, to whom she is often compared, Chapman’s music wasn’t as explicitly confessional as much as it was a portrait of the environment that first fostered her stark but fiercely optimistic worldview. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio in the US. She was raised by her mother, who recognized her love of music from a young age, and despite not having much money, bought her a ukulele when she was just three. Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 12): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-Bxxx ST-E-60774-B-DMM-2 MASTERDISK 1-2 SP-GER 74

Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-BXX MASTERDISK SP-GER ST-E-60771-B-DMM-2 Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 12): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-A2xxx ST-E-60774-A-DMM-2 36 MASTERDISK SP3-5 SP-GER Elektra/Asylum Records for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. Manufactured in Germany. Pressé en Allemagne. Record Service GmbH, Alsdorf. A Warner Communications company.Regarded as one of the greatest singer-songwriters amongst her 80’s contemporaries, Tracy Chapman helped re-define and reinvigorate the genre with her honest, yet powerful self-biographical inspired lyrics, and further challenge the wider spread young demographic of America who were inspired by her liberal lyrics and sentiment.

Yet, for all the violence and hopelessness Chapman captures in her lyrics, there’s an equal measure of radical and at times naive conviction that a more just world is on its way. “Why?” asks basic questions about widespread injustices—“Why is a woman still not safe/When she’s in her home”—before answering with an insistent assurance that “somebody’s gonna have to answer” for the destruction modern society has wrought. “Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution,” the opening song, is arguably the clearest view into Chapman’s political ethos. It’s a simple folk-pop anthem with a fervent, bright-eyed assurance that “Poor people gonna rise up/And get their share.” These brazen statements of faith in a better future emerge as encouragements for the downtrodden to continue on. Only someone who has seen society’s murky underbelly can convince you of its redeemability. She wrote the song when she was 16. Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 7): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-B ST-E-60774-B-DMM-2 MASTERDISK 1-2 SP-GER N 33 Anniversary Sheet Music Art | 100% Cotton Fiber Print | 2nd Anniversary Gift | Personalized Gift for Men | Second Anniversary Cotton GiftMatrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 11): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-A2X MASTERDISK SP 3-5 ST-E-60774-A-DMM-7 Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 18): 11 IV R/S Alsdorf 960774-1-B2 ST-E-60774-B-DMM-2 2-5 MASTERDISK SP-GER Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): R/S Alsdorf 960774-1A2XXX MASTERDISK Z5 SP3-5 SP-GER ST-E-60774-A-DMM-2