I can see why Luke Combs is drawn to "Fast Car"; it's a great song. I'm not sure that I'm ready to fence off these verses from all interested straight white men--but I can understand that the issue is complicated, at the least. Anyone who pretends the question isn't complicated....is just being disingenuous. One thing I like about Tracy Chapman's work is that the song itself is "a fast car." It collapses ten or fifteen years into a few swift verses. It's an entire marriage--from courtship to divorce. It's also pitiless; there is nothing "gauzy" in the verses. Finally, it's a suspense tale; it's like someone is turning the screws, tighter and tighter. (If country music is about characters and storytelling, then "Fast Car" is "a country song." It makes me think of Taylor Swift, although Chapman seems to have a worldliness that Taylor Swift could only dream about.) Like someone in a Kafka story, the her...