Here’s Tracy Chapman’s iconic performance of her 1988 classic “Fast Car” (https://youtu.be/AIOAlaACuv4?si=0MR5TawihHNkpw0c) at this year’s Grammy’s with Luke Combs (https://youtu.be/pLfH9HSUyf4?si=oDCl4SmGhuT8SR-w)
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Next we have a couple of songs by Tracy Chapman from her set at a 1990 South African Freedom concert (https://youtu.be/80J1dEquxYE?si=JFMllqWRF-HOH7EZ)
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"Fast Car" is the debut single by American singer-songwriter #TracyChapman, released on April 6, 1988, by #ElektraRecords, as the #leadSingle from her 1988 self-titled debut studio album. Chapman's appearance at the #NelsonMandela70thBirthdayTribute concert in June 1988 helped the song become a top-ten hit in the United States, reaching number six on the #Billboard Hot 100, and led the album to top the Billboard 200.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Zp75xe6tE
@norbertwoehnl@famichiki.jpLove this performance from this year’s Grammys. I had bought Tracy‘s album when it came out in 1988, and this powerful song has stayed with me ever since.
@jai_oh@mastodon.socialAnd don't forget Tracy Chapman's performance of "Hound Dog" at the Kennedy Center Honors (2012), a Buddy Guy Tribute 
Rolling Stone Magazine Issue #535 September 22, 1988 - Tracy Chapman Cover
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If you're going through a personal #TracyChapman revival, as you should, don't sleep on "All That You Have is Your Soul." Chapman's wisdom is both timeless and like a specific medicine for a specific illness of our time. https://youtu.be/trVCbDpmIH0?si=gSThG_57LtHcV_64
This moment gave me all the feels 
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FYI, #Combs did NOT ask #TracyChapman's permission to use her song. He used what is called a "compulsory mechanical license" - a time-consuming legal process to evade getting permission directly from the artist herself. It prohibits him altering her lyrics.
TC had consistently denied permission to use her work for covers or samples. Ofc she is going to put a good face on it once he "took first, asked forgiveness later."
Country music is just folk music w/Black people shut out
@dbattistella@mstdn.caTracy Chapman, who has not played in public in years, performs "Fast Car" with Luke Combs at the Grammys
Iconic. A word that feels overused these days. But, #TracyChapman is exactly that; so happy to see her at the #GrammyAwards
#BestOf2024 Instead of waiting for December 2024, scrambling to remember all the good things, all the things that made me happy in 2024, I will try to acknowledge these little moments of happiness as they arise. #SilentSunday with #music 
#TracyChapman is, and always has been, *everything.* #Grammys can be over for the year now.
I imagine there are a lot of people who, like me, heard this song when they were young and didn’t appreciate just how powerful it is. Then you become an adult, have some life experience and pow.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IxXO2ybSvfg&si=2KDTPnud-SS5Thuw
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Tracy Chapman has made history as the first Black woman to have a sole writing credit on a number-one U.S. country song. Luke Combs' cover of "Fast Car," which was originally recorded in 1988, reached the top of Billboard's Country Airplay chart on Monday afternoon. Here's a look at the history of "Fast Car," which Rolling Stone recently ranked at 71st in the 500 greatest songs of all time.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/4/tracy-chapman-first-black-woman-to-write-top-us-country-song
Al JazeeraTracy Chapman first Black woman to write top US country song