By:
Lee from OdessaStreet.net
Date:
02/05/03
Could we talk about Tracy
Chapman for a second? I just saw her in concert last
night, right up front. A respectful audience, nice
seats, the works. The woman walks out, simply dressed
in a black shirt and jeans (she's much tinier than
I had thought!) and just...oh God....just took over
the whole room. Hundreds of people...silenced by this
little dreaded woman and her guitar. I still get chills.
She's singing this song off of her new album ("In
the Dark"), and it's a very haunting, chilling
song, and I just start crying. My Mom used to cry
when the choir sang in church on Christmas, and I
never understood why. She would say, "It's just
so beautiful." Last night was the first time
one little voice moved this big girl to tears.
Tracy's
singing is clear and strong, and it carries up to
the last person in the last row of the concert hall.
When she began singing a cappella "Last night
I heard the screaming..." I didn't dare breathe
for fear of missing a moment of the song.
Everybody
was moved. I have never seen the French take to a
performance so well. Even by the end, once the serious,
solemn songs were over and the fun began, they were
dancing and clapping and stomping their feet. It was
like they were finally released from whatever cocoon
they have been stuck in for the last three hundred
years.
What
I appreciated about Tracy was her simplicity. She
spoke - telling little stories before singing a song
or two - talking to a fairly large sold-out audience
as if she was speaking to each person individually.
She never played up the fact that she is a multi-platinum,
grammy-winning star. She giggled sheepishly from time
to time, showed her nervousness at others, and jokingly
made fun of her band members throughout.
At
the closing, for her second encore, she said, "This
is a song by one of my favorite songwriters. It's
a song about standing up for what you believe in.
It seems appropriate given the present climate; France
seems to know something about standing up for what
it believes in. This is for anybody that believes
in peace."
It
was a groovy version of Bob Marley's "Get Up,
Stand Up."
What
a beautiful human being, and a beautiful evening.
Submitted
by: Savy (sc.paris@wanadoo.fr)
Date: 02/06/03
Just one word...:)
Great site dedicated
on Tracy Chapman's road, songs, life and...the generous
voice and emotions, she gives to all of us...
Paris, Tuesday 4th
2003: 1st rank, 1st seat...on Tracy's right :)...we're
all standing up for Tracy's...and BOB M.
..Next Tour and next
album...very soon...
Kind regards ;)
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