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title: "Telling Stories"
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# Telling Stories

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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 CHAPMAN TRACY TELLING STORIES

Review: Haunting music and intricate lyrics revisited by the early morning light of an orange moon. - To be perfectly honest with you, I'm not really sure what it was that made me revisit Tracy Chapman's compellingly crafted, introspective album, Telling Stories, 19 years after it was first released, and nearly a decade after I acquired a CD copy of my own. After all: hadn’t I heard her tell me these stories enough already? What moved me to fish it out from my collection in the library and replay it one more time (twice, as it turns out)? I blame the orange moon. I saw the Aquarius moon glowing full and bright orange just before sunrise this morning, as it was setting beneath the distant horizon of a dark Pacific Ocean, while I gazed intently through the thick branches of the surrounding redwoods towards the coastal city of Half Moon Bay, a place that Tracy calls home. What are the odds? So, there you go. The orange moon made me do it; the moon itself compelled me to play Telling Stories one more time. One more time: another precious chance to hear Tracy’s delicate yet demanding voice, to gaze upon her enigmatic face, to marvel at the guitar and organ playing, to wonder once more about the meaning of the lyrics, and once more to feel my emotions rise and fall beneath the orange moon glow of this incomparable album, which has been my comfortable companion for the past decade.. I hadn’t realized before that Emmylou Harris provides guest vocals on the album, or realized how talented Tracy was not merely as vocalist and lyricist but also as a guitar, organ, and percussion (strum stick) player. Perhaps I didn’t read the liner notes very carefully back then, when I was more concerned about telling my OWN stories than listening to hers. Today, it’s different. Today, I want Tracy to tell all the stories: to keep the walls from falling down, to speak those words, to be less than strangers, to be pretty and tragic, so that I can be a witness to her words and watch once more as she struggles with the limits of an ordinary life. Tracy, my dear, your life is far from ordinary. But if you’d prefer it that way, by all means do so. Please be my guest. If it will bring you peace and help you be a better friend and confidant, then by all means, be exactly the way you are. In my dreams and visions, you will always be standing right beside me, with your outstretched arms as warm and wonderful as ever. Thanks very much for reminding me of how much your storytelling skills have been missed!
Review: Great! - A fantastic and socially conscious musician and song writer. Perfect combo.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Haunting music and intricate lyrics revisited by the early morning light of an orange moon.
*by C***. on August 14, 2019*

To be perfectly honest with you, I'm not really sure what it was that made me revisit Tracy Chapman's compellingly crafted, introspective album, Telling Stories, 19 years after it was first released, and nearly a decade after I acquired a CD copy of my own. After all: hadn’t I heard her tell me these stories enough already? What moved me to fish it out from my collection in the library and replay it one more time (twice, as it turns out)? I blame the orange moon. I saw the Aquarius moon glowing full and bright orange just before sunrise this morning, as it was setting beneath the distant horizon of a dark Pacific Ocean, while I gazed intently through the thick branches of the surrounding redwoods towards the coastal city of Half Moon Bay, a place that Tracy calls home. What are the odds? So, there you go. The orange moon made me do it; the moon itself compelled me to play Telling Stories one more time. One more time: another precious chance to hear Tracy’s delicate yet demanding voice, to gaze upon her enigmatic face, to marvel at the guitar and organ playing, to wonder once more about the meaning of the lyrics, and once more to feel my emotions rise and fall beneath the orange moon glow of this incomparable album, which has been my comfortable companion for the past decade.. I hadn’t realized before that Emmylou Harris provides guest vocals on the album, or realized how talented Tracy was not merely as vocalist and lyricist but also as a guitar, organ, and percussion (strum stick) player. Perhaps I didn’t read the liner notes very carefully back then, when I was more concerned about telling my OWN stories than listening to hers. Today, it’s different. Today, I want Tracy to tell all the stories: to keep the walls from falling down, to speak those words, to be less than strangers, to be pretty and tragic, so that I can be a witness to her words and watch once more as she struggles with the limits of an ordinary life. Tracy, my dear, your life is far from ordinary. But if you’d prefer it that way, by all means do so. Please be my guest. If it will bring you peace and help you be a better friend and confidant, then by all means, be exactly the way you are. In my dreams and visions, you will always be standing right beside me, with your outstretched arms as warm and wonderful as ever. Thanks very much for reminding me of how much your storytelling skills have been missed!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great!
*by S***R on February 17, 2024*

A fantastic and socially conscious musician and song writer. Perfect combo.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful music
*by S***S on March 12, 2024*

Love it! Thank you

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