Tracy Chapman: Matters Of The Heart
Mark Cooper, Q, June 1992
THE COMBINATION OF 'Fast Car' and the Mandela show transformed Tracy Chapman from an odd throwback to the era of folk protest into the voice of 1988. Yet her sudden assimilation into the mainstream quickly amounted to overkill.
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