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In Searching for Harry Chapins America Remember When the Music journalist Pat Fenton describes his road trips to the towns and people that inspired Harry Chapins most renowned songs While Fentons account includes exclusive interviews with Chapins family and associates and an excerpt from Chapins unpublished writings the audio adaptation includes actual cuts from Chapins bestknown songs Composer and multiinstrumentalist David Amram who narrates Fentons chronicle performs his own brief interludes of incidental music where he was inspired to do so
Harry Chapin 19421981 was a legendary topcharting 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 Chapins Number Onecharting song Cats In the Cradle was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
Searching for Harry Chapins America was published on July 16 2021 and is a fortiethyear commemoration of this musical icons 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 Chapins legacy of songs and philanthropy
Like Don Quixote or On the Road Pat Fentons 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/multiinstrumentalist/author
A portrait of an age as well as an artist Chapin was an American original who combined Walt Whitmans lyric realism with Woody Guthries passionate truthtelling Fentons blend of sympathy honesty and insight gives us the man in full Fentons talents as a master storyteller have never been on better display
Peter Quinn novelist/political historian
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