Chapman’s Grammy Award-winning song is currently enjoying a renaissance on the country music charts due to Luke Combs’ popular cover. Tracy Chapman is making country music history. This week, the ...

Over 35 years later, the enduring track is still a timeless road trip staple.

This essay originally appeared in NPR Music's weekly newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter here. As a small-town kid in the 1980s, I fell in love with music via MTV and the ritual of transcribing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tracy Chapman is officially a CMAs winner. The folk singer-songwriter, whose signature hit “Fast Car” came out in 1988 and reached ...

Tracy Chapman's song "Fast Car" was an unlikely hit in the 1988 era of hairbands, but the song of struggle and hope hit a ...

Tracy Chapman’s hit song “Fast Car” received its flowers in the country music space, more than 30 years after its release. “Fast Car,” which Chapman first released in 1988, took home the prize for ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

Tracy Chapman only buys music in "physical form" — and she's letting fans know why. On Friday, April 4, the four-time Grammy winner, who has remained largely out of the spotlight in recent years, ...

Tracy Chapman is making country music history. This week, the guitar-playing singer-songwriter is making her mark as the first Black woman with the sole writing credit on a No. 1 country song. Chapman ...