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 Post subject: [2015-11-20] Tracy Chapman "Greatest Hits" (Elektra/Rhino)
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Tracy Chapman releases her long-awaited Greatest Hits album on November 20 through Elektra/Rhino Records. This new collection brings together, for the first time, classic tracks from Chapman’s celebrated career that now spans four decades and includes eight best-selling studio albums. Compiled by Chapman herself, the featured songs have also been newly remastered. Since her eponymous debut in 1988, Chapman has captivated audiences around the globe with her pure voice, evocative songs and intense spirit, and her ear for authenticity infuses these 18 tracks with a visceral and emotional resonance.

Tracy Chapman has created a body of work that has been as consistently compelling as it is honest and uncompromising, eloquently telling stories with perennial appeal that are at once personal and universal. Impervious to trends, she has commendably stayed her musical course, earning the approbation of fans, critics and peers, beginning in 1988 with the release of Tracy Chapman. The multi-platinum debut album earned three Grammy Awards and featured the classic singles ‘Fast Car’, ‘Talkin’ Bout A Revolution’, and ‘Baby Can I Hold You’. It went on to become one of the most successful debuts of all time, selling more than 20 million copies worldwide. To this day, it still makes regular appearances on album charts around the world, and is one of the most successful albums by a female artist in chart history. Chapman’s musical journey has continued with 1989’s Crossroads (RIAA platinum, internationally multi-platinum), 1992’s Matters Of The Heart (RIAA gold), 1995’s multi-platinum New Beginning (which featured the Grammy-winning single ‘Give Me One Reason’), 2000’s Telling Stories (RIAA gold, internationally platinum), 2002’s Let It Rain (internationally platinum), 2005’s Where You Live, and her eighth studio album, 2008’s Our Bright Future. Along the way, in addition to her four Grammys, Chapman has earned an American Music Award, two Brits, and a Billboard Music Award.

Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Chapman was awarded an academic scholarship to the prestigious Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut, and later attended Tufts University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology (in 2004 she received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from her alma mater). It was while she was there that she began singing in coffee houses, night clubs and street performing around Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since her breakthrough performance at Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday concert in London in 1988, Tracy Chapman has appeared frequently in support of social and humanitarian causes, including Amnesty International’s Human Rights Now! Tour, the annual Bridge School benefit concerts, the Nelson Mandela Free South Africa Concert, Farm Aid, Tibetan Freedom Festival, Vote for Change, the Driving Votes tour, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and many others. Chapman made her theatre debut composing the music for a new production of Athol Fugard’s classic 1961 play Blood Knot, which opened at San Francisco’s A.C.T. in 2008, and was directed by Charles Randolph-Wright. In 2012, Chapman performed at the 35th annual Kennedy Center Honors, honouring Buddy Guy. In 2014, she sat on the domestic documentary jury at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2015, she was invited by David Letterman to sing ‘Stand By Me’ during his final season hosting The Late Show, commanding a stage entirely on her own for a performance – now included on this album – that demonstrated her enduring appeal and relevance.

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1. Telling Stories
2. Baby Can I Hold You
3. Change
4. The Promise
5. Open Arms
6. Subcity
7. Fast Car
8. Bang Bang Bang
9. Crossroads
10. Speak The Word
11. Smoke And Ashes
12. Sing For You (Single Edit)
13. You’re The One
14. Save Us All
15. All That You Have Is Your Soul
16. Talkin’ Bout A Revolution
17. Give Me One Reason
18. Stand By Me (Live at The Late Show With David Letterman)

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 Post subject: [2015-11-20] Tracy Chapman "Greatest Hits" (Elektra/Rhino)
PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:09 pm 
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for those with no tracy chapman in their collection this would be pretty good.

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 Post subject: [2015-11-20] Tracy Chapman "Greatest Hits" (Elektra/Rhino)
PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 11:18 pm 
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Yes. And The Letterman performance is a nice bonus.

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 Post subject: [2015-11-20] Tracy Chapman "Greatest Hits" (Elektra/Rhino)
PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 12:45 pm 
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Chapman had a previous, import-only comp, released all the way back in 2001. She's not very prolific, but she has recorded a few albums since then.

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 Post subject: [2015-11-20] Tracy Chapman "Greatest Hits" (Elektra/Rhino)
PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:46 pm 
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Jimbo wrote:
Chapman had a previous, import-only comp, released all the way back in 2001. She's not very prolific, but she has recorded a few albums since then.


I believe that I've heard that that old compilation is one of the worst sounding discs known to man. I've avoided it for that reason. I think I'll end up picking this one up.


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 Post subject: [2015-11-20] Tracy Chapman "Greatest Hits" (Elektra/Rhino)
PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:23 pm 
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Jimbo wrote:
Chapman had a previous, import-only comp, released all the way back in 2001. She's not very prolific, but she has recorded a few albums since then.

The new compilation includes several newer tracks -- "Change", "Sing For You", "You're The One", "Save Us All", and the recent live cover of "Stand By Me" -- not found on the 2001 import. See the tracklist below for comparison.

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1. Fast Car
2. Subcity
3. Baby Can I Hold You
4. The Promise
5. I'm Ready
6. Crossroads
7. Bang Bang Bang
8. Telling Stories
9. Smoke And Ashes
10. Speak The Word
11. Wedding Song
12. Open Arms
13. Give Me One Reason
14. Talkin' Bout A Revolution
15. She's Got Her Ticket
16. All That You Have Is Your Soul


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 Post subject: [2015-11-20] Tracy Chapman "Greatest Hits" (Elektra/Rhino)
PostPosted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 6:18 pm 
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Rhino's YouTube channel has uploaded the TV commercial for the new Tracy Chapman compilation:



And a playlist of all her promo videos, upscaled to 720p:


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 Post subject: [2015-11-20] Tracy Chapman "Greatest Hits" (Elektra/Rhino)
PostPosted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 9:49 pm 
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I'm curious about the mastering on this. I can tell you the preview tracks on iTunes are VERY loud.


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 Post subject: [2015-11-20] Tracy Chapman "Greatest Hits" (Elektra/Rhino)
PostPosted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:19 pm 
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Kym wrote:
I'm curious about the mastering on this. I can tell you the preview tracks on iTunes are VERY loud.


Kym, here's a link to the DR database.

http://dr.loudness-war.info/

They don't have a listing for this yet. I'll try to find a # for you on the net & post again.

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 Post subject: [2015-11-20] Tracy Chapman "Greatest Hits" (Elektra/Rhino)
PostPosted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:28 pm 
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Geff R. wrote:
Kym wrote:
I'm curious about the mastering on this. I can tell you the preview tracks on iTunes are VERY loud.


Kym, here's a link to the DR database.

http://dr.loudness-war.info/

They don't have a listing for this yet. I'll try to find a # for you on the net & post again.

Thanks, Geff. I check out that website quite often.


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 Post subject: [2015-11-20] Tracy Chapman "Greatest Hits" (Elektra/Rhino)
PostPosted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:41 pm 
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Kym, the only # I can come up with is for a commercial 320 mp3. It's "DR10"; which 5 years ago would gave been considered mediocre; today for a commercial release it's very sadly better than average. Conventional Wisdom is "DR11" is the minimum acceptable #. I-tunes may also have a different mastering for it's Apple format then Windows MP3.

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