“Unearthed Gems: The Timeless Baby Boomer Albums Millennials Didn’t Know They Were Missing!”

Released on April 5, 1988, under Elektra Records, Tracy Chapman is the debut and self-titled album of singer/songwriter, Tracy Chapman. When trying to produce the album, many labels didn’t think that her music was would be popular.

Chapman even commented, “I never thought I would get a contract with a major record label […] All the time since I was a kid listening to records and the radio, I didn’t think there was any indication that record people would find the kind of music that I did marketable.” The record ended up becoming successful with Rolling Stone noting that “it caught everyone’s ear in the hair-metal late Eighties”