Where You Live
by Tracy Chapman£3.39 Free Shipping
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- Released
- 08/09/2005
- Music Genre
- Blues
Description
Grammy winning singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman returns to the recording fold with a new album that's as notable for its soulful hearthside vibes as for its deep-felt songs. Co-produced by Chapman and celebrated sound engineer and mixer Tchad Blake (Los Lobos, Peter Gabriel, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson), Where You Live was recorded at an improvised San Francisco rehearsal space-turned-studio that inspired the singer and her accompanists to stretch out both musically and spiritually.
The result is 11 original compositions complemented by some of the most intimate performances Chapman has ever captured.
A small but select group of musicians joined them, including guitarist / keyboardist Joe Gore (Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Eels) and percussionist Quinn (eastmountainsouth). Legendary bassist Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) was recruited to play on three tracks, while Chapman herself ably handled vocals, guitar, keys and clarinet.
Chapman charts the album's musical course on the opening track, "Change." Built on a rock-steady folk rhythm, this compelling song finds Chapman posing timeless rhetorical questions that seem all the more relevant in this discordant age of affluence and poverty, war and peace, faith and science.
Just shy of her 20th anniversary as a recording artist, it's heartening to find Tracy Chapman still in hot pursuit of "more emotion."
Product Details
- Artist
- Tracy Chapman
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- ELEKTRA
- WOW HD Sales Rank
- #14018
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Original year of release
- 2005
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 2005
- Number of Discs
- 1
- CD 30days Sales Rank
- #10230
- Cast & Crew
- Tracy Chapman (Music Performer)
- Tchad Blake (Producer)
- Tracy Chapman (Producer)
- Jared Miller (Sound Engineer)
- Scott Wi (Sound Engineer)
- Tchad Blake (Sound Engineer)
Press Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - "[S]he's blessed with a unique voice, which suggests a hidden strength behind her vulnerable quaver. Mojo (p.108)
4 stars out of 5 - "[The] album drips with heartfelt sincerity, her plaintive voice set against an elegant folk-rock backing on a set of stately, even sombre, songs... Uncut (p.94)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Change
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Talk to You
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3,000 Miles
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Going Back
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Don't Dwell
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Never Yours
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America
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Bite Our Style (Interlude)
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Before Easter
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Taken
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Be & Be Not Afraid
