Searching for harry chapin's america: remember when the music - pat fenton

In Searching for Harry Chapins America, journalist Pat Fenton describes his road trips to the towns and people that inspired Harry Chapins most renowned songs.

Fentons account includes exclusive interviews with Chapins family and associates, and an excerpt from Chapins unpublished writings.

Harry Chapin (1942-1981) was a legendary top-charting 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 One-charting song, Cats In the Cradle, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Searching for Harry Chapins America is afortieth-year commemoration of this musical icons tragic death in a car crash in 1981, a tribute to his legacy of songs and philanthropy.

Searching for Harry Chapins America is an invaluable book to celebrate Harry Chapins music and his legacy.

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.

It was worth waiting 30 years to have this story told so compellingly.

-David Amram, composer/multi-instrumentalist/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 truth-telling.

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 The perfect marriage of author and subject.

Fenton doesnt just trace the roots of Harry Chapins music; he dares to explore the American soul, extracting from it much of the pulmonary essence that made Chapin such a classic American troubadour.

By illuminating the physical and spiritual landscape of Chapins artistry as a songwriter and voice of the common American, Fenton delivers a gem.

Get this book, read it, and pass it on to someone you care about.

English, New York Times bestselling author Patrick Fenton has written a unique appreciation of a musical artists work by going on tour in the footsteps of Harry Chapin and listening to the American Everyman tell the other half of this timeless troubadours wonderful story-songs.

In the clear, beautiful prose of a b.