So it has been awhile since I’ve listened to a Harery Chapin album all the way through. So the other day I pulled the three CDs that Andrew has off the shelf and ripped them and listened to Sniper and Other Love Songs today. I was introduced to Harry’ music by my wife and on one of my visits to her at the University of Georgia we made the trek to Atlanta and saw Harry at the Great Southeast Music Hall. By we I mean me, Kathy and Eliot Kamenitz our driver and photographer! Anyway the Great Southeast Music Hall was a great venue and we had seats pretty close to the stage if I remember and it was a great concert! But I tell you when he did Sniper the emotion that that man put into the song was unbelievable and I was waiting for him to whip out some guns and take us all out! Listening to it again today the song is an amazingly powerful song! Somewhere in all my junk I think that I still have a great picture that Eliot took of Harry!
In addition to “Sniper” there are three other tracks that are all time favorites “Sunday Morning Sunshine”, “Better Place to Be” and “Circle” which was always the closing number of a Harry concert. In addition to those songs it was good to hear the other tracks that when you hear them you remember the music, particularly “Burning Herself” and “Winter Song”. All in all it was a good listen!
Years after Harry’s tragic accident I saw Tom Chapin in concert and said “I still miss him!” and his reply was “We all do” and I think what would he have done for the causes like world hunger, that he believed in if he had lived!
Here’s “Circle”! This was recorded 11 months before his death and every time I watch it I get kinda misty thinking of what might have been and remembering when the music………