Neil Young by Tracy Chapman said: “She possesses the light”

Neil Young is a big fan of Tracy Chapman Since the release of the debut album of the Cleveland girl in 1988, which contained his two best known songs: “Talkin” Bout a Revolution ” And “Fast car”.

At the time, during a television interview, Young, as Rockandrollgarage reports, of the young singer -songwriter said: “Last night we were talking about the flame that burns listening to Tracy Chapman. She has the light. I was saying to Elliot Roberts (her manager, ed) that I want to bring her on tour because she has the light, an inspiration, the door. At this moment you can have it and then disappear, you don’t know why.

Young then explained why he claimed that Tracy had the light: “Listen to this song and find yourself saying, ‘Oh my God, it’s fantastic’. She really has it, there is a feeling, it’s something more about music, it’s life and it’s there. Nobody manages to keep her for a long time then disappears. You can have it and then it disappears. I lost it many times and I was lucky enough. You have lost it, when you regain her.

That same year,
Neil Young
who was promoting
“This note’s for you”
his album with i
Blue notes
he also spoke to the spin magazine of the light. “Yes. I was hit by a lot of shit. I am no longer the same boy of twenty years. But even if I now have less splendor, I still recognize the light when I have the light. The other day I listened to a tracy chapman album. She is a new singer -songwriter and I said to myself: this girl is fucking fantastic, she has the light. It was then that I understood that I didn’t have the light.”

The desire to
Neil Young
To make her open one of its tour then came true. The Canadian musician played in the second chapman album
“Crossroads”
published in 1989. He played the acoustic guitar and the piano in
“All that you have is your soul”
.

In 1998, during an interview with Hot Press a
Tracy Chapman
he was asked about the album
“Crossroads”
she declared. “It was not so unexpected, at least for me. Some have found the second most controversial record, others less valid. I believe that the record company was certainly not happy with it. But I guess I didn’t expect me to be welcomed in the same way as the first. You can’t expect people that people like everything you do. I also believe that part of the praise and success of the first album was due to the fact that it was the first.