The other day my friend Carl Abernathy sent me a link to a story about the singer Jen Chapin, daughter of Harry Chapin, my old favorite who gets classified as a folk rocker but who was, more accurately, a musical story teller. A great one in my opinion. Check out his songs "A Better Place to Be," "Mr. Tanner," "The Sniper" and "Dogtown" for four examples.
Jen Chapin is kind of a jazzy bluesy folk rocker who does a little story telling of her own and makes me think of Madeline Peyroux if Madeline tended to sing more like Bonnie Raitt than Billie Holiday. That's based on "Linger," Chapin's most recent CD, which I like.
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