Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" ended up driving her right to the coveted CMA award for song of the year — 35 years later. The Country Music Association donned the 59-year-old singer with the song of the ...

From the opening notes on the guitar “Fast Car” is instantly recognizable to tons of music fans of all ages. Tracy Chapman’s 1988 single became a near-instant hit, and it helped propel her self-titled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” was written nearly 40 years ago, but we’re now in year two of its second ...

Last week, Tracy Chapman made country music history by becoming the first Black woman to be the sole songwriter of a Number One country hit when Luke Combs’ cover of her 1988 song “Fast Car” topped ...

From its humble beginnings to its multigenerational success, Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has endured a long and winding journey. Chapman was an anthropology student at Massachusetts' Tufts University ...

At a sit down with Willie Geist, Combs unpacked the now-iconic music moment: his performance of "Fast Car" alongside Chapman at the 2024 Grammy Awards.

Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has become embraced as a timeless song. Maybe less to simply great songwriting, but more to the fact it narrates an enduring attribute of American life: trying to attain ...