Tracy Chapman

We'll get back to Fall Break.

I was thinking about that this morning because I heard the Tracy Chapman song.

And so I started thinking about...

The kid who played the Tracy Chapman song at an Idealism in Action, like one of our first ones.

Yeah.

And Bob Gillespie being, of blessed memory, being like, what the fuck? Bob, it's a revolution.

Yeah, Soulsters.

We heard a lot of Tracy Chapman in our family.

Oh, true.

Miles Davis.

So, you know, women were looked at as chicks, really, weren't they? And it was very different.

And there was even people wrote books, I mean, on the groupie as this is just what is kind of expected of for a lot of bands to have that as a, as a just that's what it is that's where you got into music so to have a feminist role model was very important during that time because you had you know like you had Grace Slick and Janice Joplin and lots of others but then you know out of the 70s you got Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Janice Ian you know, there was this sort of the birth of the singer-songwriter that then goes into the 80s with Susan Vague and Michel Schacht and Tracy Chapman but they, and oh yeah, before that you'd had Joan Armatraden in the 70s as well but, you know, it was, it probably wasn't an easy sell because I would imagine each of those record labels were saying could we just, could you just have a bit more, I don't know.

flesh on display and sexualize your look whereas like not

only got very lucky in the sense that not luck well luck luck was part of it but obviously she was she was in a position where she was allowed to be herself as an artist and I think partly that is I mean I could be wrong but it could be because when she met David Crosby he was massively in awe of her and I know he remained in awe of her the whole of his life But he introduced her to his manager, which was David Geffen.

And I just didn't blink.

I was like, what is this? I remember the first time I saw Tracy Chapman.

I remember the first time I saw the Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares to You.

And just literally being

I don't know.

I mean, there's a Tracy Chapman story like that in the park.

I don't know.

I hope it's true.