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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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