I'm 24, when Harry died I was just over a year old. I'd always caught Taxi on the radio and Cat's in the Cradle reminded me very much of my own childhood experience. But I couldn't tell you who was the artist behind either song. Then one day, about 2…
By the time I was of conscious memory, Harry Chapin had died. It was 1990 when I first heard the album Taxi. Like every young kid my age I rummaged through my parents record collection looking for vintage Beatles, Doors, Joplin what have you. I listened to scratchy Santana albums…
I remember when I used to go to my aunt Janet & uncle Manny’s house for Xmas eve. Harry would come and we would sing Xmas songs. That is one of the main reasons I became a musician. He inspired me so much.
"Harry, keep the change"....Those were my only words ever spoken directly to Harry and it was backstage after a concert down at the East Pier in NYC and everybody around us was rolling with laughter, including Harry himself, at my comment and blushing face and I was just wishing a…