- rock
- 45 min
- 9 tracks
- Elektra
Sniper and Other Love Songs is the second studio album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1972. The album's title song is a vaguely fictionalised account of Charles Whitman's shootings from the clocktower of the Main Building of the University of Texas at Austin in August 1966. In 2004 it was released as a double CD package with Heads & Tales featuring several previously unreleased out-takes.
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Spare, classical in form, grave and raw.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
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Tracks
- A1Sunday Morning Sunshine3:30
- A2Sniper9:50
- A3And the Baby Never Cries5:00
- A4Burning Herself3:26
- B1Barefoot Boy3:26
- B2Better Place to Be8:35
- B3Circle3:20
- B4Woman Child5:15
- B5Winter Song2:30
9 tracks, 45 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Harry Chapin
- Label
- Elektra
- Released
- 1972
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- CA
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