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 ...

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

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 ...

From its humble beginnings to its multigenerational success, Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has endured a long and winding journey. Chapman was an anthropology student at Massachusetts' Tufts University ...

Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" ended up driving her right to the coveted CMA award for song of the year — 35 years later. The Country Music Association donned the 59-year-old singer with the song of the ...

Last week, Tracy Chapman made country music history by becoming the first Black woman to be the sole songwriter of a Number One country hit when Luke Combs’ cover of her 1988 song “Fast Car” topped ...

Now that Chapman has conquered the pop and country charts with “Fast Car” — which was also released as a house cover by Jonas Blue in 2015 — the versatile song might also work well if it was ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has become embraced as a timeless song. Maybe less to simply great songwriting, but more to the fact it narrates an enduring attribute of American life: trying to attain ...

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 ...

Consensus is the rarest gem in a time defined by division. If Tracy Chapman’s recent Grammys rendition of “Fast Car” struck an uncharacteristically harmonious chord across our culture, that alone ...

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