For nearly two decades, Tracy Chapman has been a truly individual voice on the modern musical landscape, charting and artistic path that owes nothing to trend and fashion, and everything to personal spirit, intelligence, and integrity.

Grammy winning singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman returns to the recording fold with a new album that’s as notable for its soulful hearthside vibes as for its deep-felt songs. Co-produced by Chapman and celebrated sound engineer and mixer Tchad Blake (Los Lobos, Peter Gabriel, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson), Where You Live was recorded at an improvised San Francisco rehearsal space-turned-studio that inspired the singer and her accompanists to stretch out both musically and spiritually.

The result is 11 original compositions complemented by some of the most intimate performances Chapman has ever captured.

A small but select group of musicians joined them, including guitarist / keyboardist Joe Gore (Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Eels) and percussionist Quinn (eastmountainsouth). Legendary bassist Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) was recruited to play on three tracks, while Chapman herself ably handled vocals, guitar, keys and clarinet.

Chapman charts the album’s musical course on the opening track, “Change.” Built on a rock-steady folk rhythm, this compelling song finds Chapman posing timeless rhetorical questions that seem all the more relevant in this discordant age of affluence and poverty, war and peace, faith and science.

Just shy of her 20th anniversary as a recording artist, it’s heartening to find Tracy Chapman still in hot pursuit of “more emotion.”

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