Chip Taylor's Last Chance

Chip Taylor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 1997)
• Original Release Date: October 10, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Gadfly
• ASIN: B00000201G
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #367,212 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. (I Want) The Real Thing

2. Son Of A Rotten Gambler

3. I Read It In Rolling Stone

4. (The Coal Fields Of) Shikshinny

5. I Wasn't Born In Tennessee

6. (The Likes Of) Louise

7. It's Still The Same

8. 101 In Cashbox

9. Family Of One

10. Clean Your Own Tables

11. Last Chance

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ENJOYING A SECOND "LAST CHANCE" IN LIFE!, July 24, 2000

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VALMORE R WARREN (GARDINER, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chip Taylor's Last Chance (Audio CD)

Despite the fact that this album eluded me for 27 years, the infectious melodies and meaningful lyrics of its music had become such a living entity in my life that it attained the status of a "best friend". You see, I was initially exposed to a buddy's vinyl pressing of this classic Taylor album back in 1973. This tantalizing taste of audial ecstasy was fleeting at best because a few weeks later the record was ruined in a basement flood. Not only was I never able to procure another copy for my friend or myself but ironically Chip abandoned the music industry altogether at this time. I hadn't felt such a sense of personal loss over a performer since the death of Buddy Holly when I was age 17. At least I had Holly's legacy on various recordings to enjoy over the ensuing years. But all I had left of Taylor's music were distant sounds echoing over that cluttered playback mechanism in the deep recesses of my mind for almost 3 decades! I was thrilled to discover earlier this year that this lost treasure had been resurrected on CD. The passing of time has not corrupted the tone of its pure country-rock strains nor diminished the warmth and inventiveness of its lyrical content. Bless you Chip for this fresh transfusion of "The Real Thing" and especially for being an unwitting partner in fulfilling my 27-year quest for a second "LAST CHANCE"!

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Happy to see re-release..., July 31, 1999

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[e-mail] (Dallas / San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chip Taylor's Last Chance (Audio CD)

It has been many years, (and many miles), I've spent searching for this once-unavailable album (yes, polyvinyl), for this was probably an early 70s original release. It is remembered for truely haunting lyrics, clear, concise acoustic guitar work, and melodies that seem to "stick around long after the music stops." Chip, thanks for finding the many reasons to bring this one back. It has served me well, even if only through memory, and influenced my last 30 years of writing and performing. Austin Ladd Roberts

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lost (and found) classic, March 1, 2004

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Guy Shennan (Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chip Taylor's Last Chance (Audio CD)

I bought this album on vinyl in a secondhand record shop around 1979, having read about it in the NME Book of Rock. I fell in love with it - it always rated in my top ten. Then somehow, I lost it! I like to think it found its way to someone else who became an equal fan. I spent years looking for it, in every record shop I visited (and I visit lots), and I couldn't believe my eyes when I eventually saw it (on vinyl) in a secondhand shop in Soho. Shortly after (1998), I read that Chip was touring again and I went to see him in Birmingham (England), and bought a copy of Last Chance on CD. The liner notes described it as his lost classic. So true! See if you can listen to Shikshinny without a tear coming to your eye.