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In "Searching for Harry Chapin’s America: Remember When the Music," journalist Pat Fenton describes his road trips to the towns and people that inspired Harry Chapin’s most renowned songs. While Fenton’s account includes exclusive interviews with Chapin’s family and associates, and an excerpt from Chapin’s unpublished writings, the audio adaptation includes actual cuts from Chapin's best-known songs. Composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram, who narrates Fenton's chronicle, performs his own brief interludes of "incidental music," where he was inspired to do so.
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In "Searching for Harry Chapin’s America: Remember When the Music," journalist Pat Fenton describes his road trips to the towns and people that inspired Harry Chapin’s most renowned songs. While Fenton’s account includes exclusive interviews with Chapin’s family and associates, and an excerpt from Chapin’s unpublished writings, the audio adaptation includes actual cuts from Chapin's best-known songs. Composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram, who narrates Fenton's chronicle, performs his own brief interludes of "incidental music," where he was inspired to do so.
Harry Chapin (1942-1981) was a legendary top-charting American songwriter in the 1970s and ’80s. During his lifetime, Chapin was nominated twice for a Grammy Award: in 1972 for Best New Artist, and in 1974 for Best Pop Male Vocal Performance. In 2011, thirty years after his untimely death, Chapin’s Number One-charting song, “Cat’s In the Cradle,” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
"Searching for Harry Chapin’s America" was published on July 16, 2021, and is a fortieth-year commemoration of this musical icon’s tragic death in a car crash on July 16, 1981. The audio adaptation follows a year later, in July, 2022, and extends the tribute to Chapin's legacy of songs and philanthropy.
"Like 'Don Quixote,' or 'On the Road,' Pat Fenton’s classic book takes you on an unforgettable series of journeys and makes you feel that you are now welcome to be with the people and places that Harry Chapin memorialized in his timeless songs."
—David Amram, composer/multi-instrumentalist/author
“A portrait of an age as well as an artist. Chapin was an American original who combined Walt Whitman’s lyric realism with Woody Guthrie’s passionate truth-telling. Fenton’s blend of sympathy, honesty, and insight gives us the man in full. Fenton’s talents as a master storyteller have never been on better display.”
—Peter Quinn, novelist/political historian
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| 1. | 1 Fenton Title 220630 |
0 mins 30 secs |
| 2. | 2 Fenton Dedication 220630 |
0 mins 16 secs |
| 3. | 3 Fenton Introduction 220630 |
13 mins 12 secs |
| 4. | 4 Fenton RememberingHarry 220615 |
27 mins 20 secs |
| 5. | 5 Fenton PointLookoutNY 220615 |
21 mins 38 secs |
| 6. | 6 Fenton DrinkingInASong 220630 |
7 mins 38 secs |
| 7. | 7 Fenton TheRealMrTanner 220615 |
18 mins 53 secs |
| 8. | 8 Fenton BananasInScranton 220615 |
12 mins 28 secs |
| 9. | 9 Fenton OnTheRoad 220630 |
16 mins 52 secs |
| 10. | 10 Fenton Candor 220630 |
13 mins 46 secs |
| 11. | 11 Fenton OldCollegeAvenue 220615 |
13 mins 44 secs |
| 12. | 12 Fenton CatsAndDogs 220630 |
8 mins 57 secs |
| 13. | 13 Fenton BackstreetBar 220630 |
15 mins 49 secs |
| 14. | 14 Fenton UticaNY 220630 |
8 mins 43 secs |
| 15. | 15 Fenton Watertown 220630 |
19 mins 35 secs |
| 16. | 16 Fenton SkipJohnson 220615 |
13 mins 30 secs |
| 17. | 17 Fenton GoodbyeToGM 220615 |
13 mins 19 secs |
| 18. | 18 Fenton Epilogue 220615 |
8 mins 34 secs |
| 19. | 19 Fenton Credits 220615 |
0 mins 51 secs |
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