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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 pare
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Release date: 15 February 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075596247825 UPC: 075596247825
Release date: 15 February 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075596247825 UPC: 075596247825
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