🎶 luke combs and tracy chapman
↳ the end of 'a league of their own' with the brief visit from an older black woman who could probably still outplay madonna
↳ the mixed-gender rockford peaches who run bay to breakers (two pictured but i think there were 4 or 5)
↳ where in the world does one get rockford peaches uniforms?
↳ 3:30am, wide awake :neocat_0_0: #RockfordPeaches#FastCar
I've seen a lot of people quoting Tracy Chapman, and she deserves all the love, but the key verse is this. Props to Luke Combs for keeping it in, unlike some other people who've covered it.
I always hoped for better,
Thought maybe together you and me'd find it.
I got no plans, I ain't goin' nowhere,
So take your fast car and keep on driving.
"Fast Car" non è una reliquia del suo tempo ma è tragicamente senza tempo. Il fatto che "Fast Car" possa essere tramandata di generazione in generazione senza bisogno di spiegazioni è al tempo stesso un trionfo musicale e un'atto d'accusa.
Video di denuncia come questo giravano su MTV a fine anni 80 e inizio 90:
‘[A]ll of the #music [Luke Combs] released before “Fast Car” had been classified, for chart purposes, as #country. That meant that when “Fast Car” won song of the year at the Country Music Association Awards last November, [Tracy] Chapman became the first #Black songwriter to win that prize. This felt less like a cause for celebration than a stark reminder of how few Black women get to be considered “country” artists…’
I saw her for the first time when she opened for Bob Dylan at the Gorge Amphitheater in #WA. What an incredible artist and person.
She was very gracious to share the stage with the country music artist who covered #FastCar. I have never heard his version and have no interest in it (sorry). Anyone but her singing that song will always be at best an homage to her, personally, it could never improve upon the original.
“I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone.” Listeners couldn’t help but be moved by Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” an out-of-the-blue folk hit that rose to No. 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1988. Nearly as surprising, Luke Combs’ cover 35 years later became one of the songs of the year. BBC has more: https://flip.it/jB8EMw #Culture#Entertainment#Music#FastCar#TracyChapman#LukeCombs
https://youtu.be/Q2wneBVssPc #music
If #TracyChapman is new to you because of #FastCar, know that she wrote most of her first album when she was in her late teens and that a lot of it is better than fast car and all of it is fabulous. Listen to this one.