I met, and got to know Harry Chapin back in 72 (I’ll find the exact dates), when he was playing in Atlanta (about every 6 months or so) at The Great Southeast Music Hall for The Performing Art, a small converted theater in Buckhead. I was formally with a "one…
It was October of 1998, almost twenty years since I last attended a Chapin concert, and over twenty three years since I was introduced to Harry’s incredible music as a sophomore in college. His music still lives in me, and in my children who have become as familiar with Harry’s…
Several weeks before Harry Chapin died he did a solo performance in Jamestown, New York at the Palace Theater. I do not remember the actual date of the performance. (Jamestown is about 200 miles west of Binghamton, and perhaps it was prior to or after his performance there in June…
My first Harry Chapin experience was in the spring of 1976 when I bought Varieties & Balderdash, and saw him in a solo concert at Northern IL Univ. in May of that same year. I say it was only the first experience because I was fortunate to have many more.…