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Harry Chapin - Heads & Tales Audio CD

A fair review of the Harry Chapin "Heads & Tales" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Harry Chapin reviews here, or go back to the Harry Chapin tabs.

Harry Chapin Band: Harry Chapin
Title: Heads & Tales
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Could You Put Your Light on, Please 2: Greyhound 3: Everybody's Lonely 4: Sometime, Somewhere Wife 5: Empty 6: Taxi 7: Any Old Kind of Day 8: Dogtown 9: Same Sad Singer

Great debut album
Listen to this and "Living Room Suite" for a perfect range of his music. Harry Chapin's "Heads and Tales", one of the best, if not the best, debut albums, established him as the preminent storyteller of the 70's with his hit song "Taxi" and other songs such as "Any Old Kind of Day", "Could You Put Your Light On, Please", "Greyhound", and "Dogtown", one of the most disturbing songs ever written.


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we must never forget the early harry
I couldn't believe the way he spoke to me. I was just out of university and watching Carson when I heard Harry. I've never thought that any of his later albums (I date myself) matched his first work. Taxi. A Better Place to Be. When DVDs first came out, only his live album was available and I never thought it matched the beauty of the young man I saw that night. He was so real (I hate the term "authentic" but Harry probably deserved it). When he died so tragically, a friend called me to break it to me as if I had lost a dear friend. I can't even today watch the PBS special without wanting to cry. He spoke of the heartache, the exploration, the need to find yourself, the loss of early love that so many of us experienced (and probably still do today). "Sometime I get this crazy dream, that I just take off in my car. . . "--it's from a later album, but it captures the failed dreams, the disappointment, the disparity between expectation and life. Yet it celebrates life. "A Better Place to Be" reminds us that there is love where we least expect it. "Greyhound" reminds us to experience life as we go, not wait for some imagined destination. This is the place to start with Harry. If you listen to this, you understand the man he was when he began his journey. No one ever "covers" his songs because there isn't anyone who can. Judith.


Harry Chapin - Heads and Tales
I, too, remember driving in a soft rain and hearing Taxi for the first time. This album is so great in so many ways I cannot begin to tell you. My god. A whole life story. His, yours, mine. All there. Later albums had some good stuff, and we have them all on vinyl or CD, but nothing ever quite reached the glorious madness of an everyday man or woman living through whatever came each sunrise and evening. That's Heads & Tales. It's just great. The music has soothed me thru every loss, embroidered my triumphs, some of it still makes me cry after all these years. Get this one in your collection now, so you'll be ready for the day you put on your grown-up shoes.


For those who wish to look further
There are, by Harry's own standards, some relatively so-so songs on this but these are countered by the real stand-out classics. This was Harry Chapin's first real solo album and while not as rounded or fully accomplished as later albums is deserving of a place in the collection of anybody who likes quality song-writing and passionate delivery. My introduction to this album-and to Harry's music, was was the epic 'Dogtown' which one DJ used to play on the radio back in '72/'73. It has been called overblown and worse but it deals with a dark subject and calls for a grand delivery. Harry does much more than that though and gives it real power and force,singing it with genuine passion and feeling, as he did a lot of his songs. It is essential listening for any embryonic Chapin fan or anybody wishing to delve deeper than 'W. O. L. D. ' or 'Cats in the Cradle'. The album also has the sublime 'Taxi' on it. Other songs may sound slightly average by comparison but they are up against very stiff competition and the album as a whole deserves to be listened to. It should perhaps not be anyone's first Harry Chapin disc, but if you already own two or three others - this should be your next!.


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