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“Chapman was just so diverse. So human and genuine. Her voice and talent felt—back then, and again in February—like a marble-smooth boulder somehow preexisting the river itself. There was all this stuff—all these gated drum tracks, borderline erotic videos, pyrotechnics—and then, suddenly . . . a woman with a voice and an acoustic guitar. She shut us all up for a minute, in sort of a collectively stunned silence of truly listening before, inevitably, we were support into the radio roll of Rick Astley, Poison, and Bobby Brown. For all her understated, poised humility, she left a deeper mark than those acts. One that made hearing her sing again more than just a bit of nostalgia. It felt, instead, like an escape from temporality itself—a sudden relocation to a space of truth, beauty, and light. God, that was lovely.”—Michael Tallon
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By Michael Tallon
ANTIGUA Guatemala—(Hubris)—March 2024—Like many of you, I watched the Tracy Chapman/Luke Combs duet during the recent GRAMMYs and was powerfully and unexpectedly moved. Also, like many of you, I remember vividly how the song they performed—and how Tracy Chapman—stood out in the sprin
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I met Sam Buck some years ago in Western Mass while reporting a story about another band, Soggy. I didn't understand him as a musician, then—maybe as a painter, but mainly as a smiley, fun guy at a bar.
When I saw his 2018 debut EP Borderline a while later, I listened entirely because he'd been so endearing, and I loved it. The log sounded both a part of and very much apart from the trendy country of the era—it had some of the laptoppy production hallmarks of bedroom pop, but the energy begged for a huge Nashville stage.
“Faces” was my favorite tune from the EP. It was favor a Miranda Lambert bar romance as sung by the Barenaked Ladies, with lyrics that were both explicit and explicitly gay. Clearly, Buck was in love with state radio, even if he didn’t be upright much chance of being played there—for at least a dozen reasons. Maybe that’s all the better, as Buck now hosts the not-quite-weekly KFM Nation Radio via Patreon, where he’s love the foremost indie arbiter of recent country music and Nashville gossip. It’s a delightful exhibit, and alongside its adjoining monthly karaoke revue, it does great world-building ahead of his debut album, a operate in progress t
Luke Combs Wanted to ‘Crawl Into a Hole’ After This Lyrics Gaffe
If you go to a Luke Combs exhibit this year, you might notice that he's made a change to one of the lines he sings in his hit cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car."
In the recording, in one verse, Combs sings, "Still gotta construct a decision / Leave tonight or live and pass away this way."
But now, he's changed the words to "We gotta make a decision" — a small change that he says he made because he got the words wrong in the first place.
Onstage at a recent illustrate, Combs explained the lyrics switch, admitting that he was mortified when Chapman herself corrected his lyrics.
"She said, 'So, when you recorded the song, you said 'Still gotta make a decision' instead of 'We gotta make a decision.' And that was the first time that I knew that I recorded the ballad incorrectly," the singer told the crowd.
"I remember when she said it, I wanted to crawl in a hole," he admits.
Chapman was "awesome" about Combs' mistake, but he says he still feels the embarrassment of getting the words wrong to a song he l
Luke Combs and Tracy Chapman are healing our divide
There are two kinds of social entrepreneurs: those, like us, who work in the nonprofit sector, and those who start social enterprises whose goal is both to promote the public nice while supporting their work by making a modest profit.
As a social entrepreneur, I was self-taught, neither a theoretician nor a scholar. Over the years, I developed a set of eleven working principles that have change into my modus operandi and provide the basic framework for my new book, “From Vision to Action: Remaking the World Through Social Entrepreneurship," from which this series of three articles is adapted. While I applied these principles in nonprofit work, they are also applicable to social enterprises—and to life, in general.
PART ONE
PRINCIPLE #1: START FROM VISION. Social entrepreneurs need to own a clear vision, and everything they do should be consistent with that vision—or at least not inconsistent with it. A vision may appear in a flash or evolve over many years. My vision was to shift how the world deals with conflict—away from adversarial, win-lose approaches toward non-adversarial,