Wearing jeans and a tight black top, she cradled a guitar that looked like a toy in her large hands. That is a pity since it is one of her best collections yet, a point which she underlined with cool authority at this concert.Ī few days short of her 39th birthday, Chapman looked unchanged as she took her place on stage along with a six-piece backing band. Her Anthology album of 2001 - a repackaging of earlier material - may have achieved platinum sales, but her latest CD of new material, Let It Rain, has not fared so well. Having enjoyed instant success at the start of her career - her debut album has sold ten million copies since it was released in 1988 - Chapman has had to adjust to a cult status more in keeping with the folk provenance of her music. Indeed, Tuesday night’s show at the Albert Hall was part of her first British tour, which may partly explain the ecstatic ovation she got at the end of a performance of stark, minimalist splendour.
IT’S not often that Tracy Chapman comes here. Tracy Chapman – By: David Sinclair, The Times, March 13, 2003.
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