>Fast Car is at its heart a pop strong with impeccable
>structure and melody, but it's the sparse 'folk' production
>that makes it stand out as completely different from anything
>on the charts in those days.

either my mother or my aunt (her youngest sister) had bought the album and we played that (and Bobby McFerrin's album) between Charlotte and Indiana that year on a ride home... totally left field of what was out there in that time, across genres.