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Related: About this forumTracy Chapman and Luke Combs - Fast Car from Grammys last night
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Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs - Fast Car from Grammys last night (Original Post)
Laura PourMeADrink
Feb 2024
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blm
(113,742 posts)1. It was sublime.You could see he was thrilled to duet with her.
cbabe
(3,953 posts)2. Thank you for posting. She's a goddess.
Botany
(71,811 posts)3. That was magic.
You got a fast car
Is it fast enough we can fly away?
We gotta make a decision,
We leave tonight or live and die this way.
coprolite
(276 posts)4. Oh my,
Tracy Chapman's hair is as grey as mine, are we really that old?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)5. :) she's 59
malaise
(275,413 posts)6. Thanks
The Grammys were great last night - fabulous production
ProfessorGAC
(68,494 posts)7. Really Good!
Their voices blend nicely.
I liked the arrangement, too.
I had read that she was very pleased with Luke's version. I think this cements that she was serious about it.
DJ Porkchop
(572 posts)8. Here's the show.
Click here to see the broadcast ICYMI
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From Dave Pell's daily roundup, NextDraft:
I was walking on a snowy trail wearing some spongy Walkman headphones the first time I heard a cassette tape playing Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. Songs often take you back to a specific moment in your life, and I'll always remember the first time I heard that song. Luke Combs wasn't yet born during my slow walk with Fast Car, but the same song conjures a memory for him, too. He's riding shotgun in a Ford F-150 and his dad pops a cassette into the tape deck as he takes his only child for a ride through the roads of their North Carolina home town. As Combs, now a country music star explains, "It was my favorite before I knew what a favorite song was." Both of those moments took place in what feels like a lost America, when art and culture didn't have to cut through the static of viral, social media rage; when everything wasn't just about politics, we weren't so relentlessly divided, and before nonsensical takes that wouldn't even qualify for the 'letters to the editor's section of a local newspaper were elevated to top story status on national cable news. During last night's Grammy Awards, Luke Combs, now a country music star, played his number one selling cover version of Fast Car with a special guest: Tracy Chapman. It took Combs back to that Ford F-150. Maybe it took Chapman back to busking at the Harvard T Station. It took me back to that snowy walk and a different time in America. Maybe the surprise performance was a reminder that the American duet is still playing beneath the din, among regular people who actually interact in real life, freed from their social media silos of homogeneity. Maybe, for a second, I bought the idea that the lyrics of the song could be applied to our two Americas: Maybe we make a deal. Maybe together we can get somewhere. Whatever it was, for the duration of a song, I didn't believe all the divisive rhetoric. I believed Luke Combs and Tracy Chapman performing Fast Car together. A great American song, a beautiful American moment.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)9. Wow! Dave Pell's take is so perfectly stated! Thanks DJ