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Harry's Music
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Anthology
Bottom Line Encore Collection
Dance Band On The Titanic*
Gold Medal Collection
Essentials
Greatest Stories Live*
Heads & Tales
Legends Of Lost & Found*
Living Room Suite
On The Road To Kingdom Come
Portrait Gallery
Sequel
Short Stories
Story Of A Life-Harry Chapin Box Set
Sniper & Other Love Songs
Verities & Balderdash
VH1 Behind the Music Collection
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= Highly Recommended
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The Latest Release
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Sniper & Other Love Songs
In 1972, Harry released
Sniper & Other Love Songs.
Thirty years would pass before the album would ever reach the CD format. Sniper was finally re-released in June, 2002.
Originally given a working title of Sweet City Suite, the album tells the story of various characters one might run into in
a city. The album features the original studio versions of Chapin classics "A Better Place to Be" and "Circle." But
perhaps more importantly (as those songs are already well-distributed on compilation CDs), the album features seemingly
lost Chapin stories, including "And the Baby Never Cries," "Burning Herself," "Barefoot Boy," and "Woman Child."
Sniper is for the seasoned Chapin fan. New fans would do better to check out
Greatest Stories
Live. But for Chapin fans who have reached the level of the
Dance Band on the Titanic album, this is the next step. Slightly over-produced and having a little of the "forced"
feel that some of Harry's studio albums possess, this album does not capture the powerfully live Harry Chapin. Nonetheless,
it captures Harry's great iconoclastic songwriting--Harry takes the story song to new heights here. But the album works best
for those ready for it; don't buy it until you are ready to appreciate it!
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