I love Tracy’s music, I first heard her music when I was going through a ruff time in my life and I must say her music helped me I played her CD over and over again 🤣😉💯‼️

Sad truth is that We will never get or hear new music like this again 🔥

Release Date:  January 20, 2015
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Make Some Room

Listen to the Music / Toulouse Street

Listen to the Music (Single Version)

Blind Mullet Chitlin’s dog breaks free, chasing his own dream north. From the cane fields to the circus rings, the dog’s fate mirrors loss, freedom, and unfulfilled yearning of Chitlin himself

lyrics
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“I had a dog once… but he had bigger dreams than me…”
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He slipped the chain one floodlit dawn
Sniffed the wind and then was gone
I heard him howl through paperbark smoke
As the morning train to Innisfail woke
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He ran where the blackened cane fields bled
Where fire paints the sky a hellish red
No collar, no fear, just that ol’ dog soul
Heading north where the night bell tolls
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The dog went north and he never came back
Left his prints in a sugarcane track
He chased that moon ‘til his paws wore thin
Now he’s dancing in the circus ring
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They found him outside a canvas tent
Growlin’ time to a sideshow scent
Ringmaster said, “He’s got that gleam —”
“Like he’s been dreamin’ someone else’s dream”
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They taught him tricks, he stole the show
Leapt through fire and dodged the blows
I found him one night ‘neath the candy-light glare
But he stared right through me — like I wasn’t there
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The dog went north and he never came back
Runnin’ wild on a sawdust track
He broke my leash and found his truth
Now he’s moon-howlin’ under a circus roof
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I swung at a carnie who threw a blade
Caught my eye like a debt unpaid
Left me squintin’ at the river tide
Seein’ fish where the clouds collide
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“That’s when I learned the hook sets deeper
when the bait sings back…”
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I still hear him on windless nights
Tappin’ time ‘neath funfair lights
Sometimes I whistle down the southern track
But the truth is, mate — he ain’t comin’ back
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The dog went north, just like a song
Left me squintin’ at what I done wrong
He’s out there still, tail full of fire
Howlin’ gospel to a wire-wheeled gyre
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“He was born to run… I was born to howl…”
"Born to Howl Blind Baby
Shitlin Chitlin Soul"


Credits
from Larrikin Psalms, released August 29, 2025
“Dog Went North" was developed as part of the Blind Mullet Chitlin project, combining Wayne Halfpenny’s songwriting with lyrical and conceptual contributions from ChatGPT (OpenAI), and music arrangement via Suno AI.

Dog Went North

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At the 1987 WEA sales meeting in Miami, Elektra Chairman/CEO Bob Krasnow introduced his newest find, a young African-American singer/songwriter named Tracy Chapman. The Cleveland-born folksinger – who would have fit perfectly on Jac Holzman’s early Elektra roster – stood at the podium, alone with her guitar, and sang emotionally resonant songs with provocative titles like “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution.” Those assembled were blown away by Chapman’s passion and talent, but mainstream commercial potential? Not so much.

Krasnow, on the other hand, heard in Chapman an authentically original voice and personality, fresh and distinct from the current music scene. By the time the two returned to the annual WEA gathering the following August, Chapman’s self-titled Elektra debut album had proven an unlikely #1 phenomenon on the Billboard 200, highlighted by the top 10 pop hit, “Fast Car.” Ultimately certified six-times platinum by the RIAA, Tracy Chapman also earned Chapman her first two Grammy Awards, for “Best Contemporary Folk Album” and “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.”

The album should have been impossible to follow, but 1989’s Crossroads proved an inspired, platinum-certified second act. Matters of the Heart was released in 1992, followed three years later by New Beginning, featuring the platinum-certified single, “Give Me One Reason,” a top 3 hit on Billboard’s “Hot 100” and 1996 Grammy Award winner for “Best Rock Song.”

Two further Elektra releases followed before Chapman made her Atlantic Records debut with 2007’s Where You Live. Hailed as being among the most powerful works of her career, the acclaimed collection fully ratified Tracy Chapman’s continuing status as pop’s preeminent folk voice.

Give Me One Reason

Tracy Chapman

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