"Fast Car" Tracy Chapman & Luke Combs
I'm lucky to have had Tracy as a classmate in college, would regularly see her playing on campus. A highlight was her playing at the center of a student protest gathering as we surrounded the administration building. For the most part, the protest did not successfully "get student voices heard," but Tracy's voice stopped forward motion of time. 'Twas truly deeply holy. We were all tickled when the first album came out, played it endlessly, but secretly yearned for the days when we could hear her voice and guitar live without any mechanical intrusion. Later, spending Christmas on the beaches of Goa, India, we felt like the album unified the world, virtually all beach-hut cafe's spinning that disk simultaneously, if not in synch. Magical. Utterly magical.
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