MUSIC NEWS - Grammy Award–winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Shawn Colvin has announced a new release, Shawn Colvin Live (out June 23, 2009 via Nonesuch Records). Recorded in 2008 during a three-night solo engagement at San Francisco’s famous jazz club, Yoshi’s, Live includes twelve songs written or co-written by Colvin, as well as covers of songs by Robbie Robertson, Gnarls Barkley, a...
I saw Shawn Colvin in concert for the first time a couple of weeks ago when she played the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA. She had a small band with her, which luckily included Buddy Miller, a fantastic guitarist and vocalist who has released many Americana / Country albums solo and with his wife Julie Miller. Shawn recently released her first album in many years, These Four Walls. The CD is e...
This morning I thought I'd do a trio of cover posts featuring women singing songs written by men about girls in transition. Just cause, I am. After seven years of not speaking to me, my mother sent me a letter on my birthday asking to see me. I can't promise an Oprah moment. I have a feeling it's going to be more like Jerry Springer, actually. I am very, very apprehensive about what's going to ...
This is such a poignant lyric.**Robbie Robertson's** minor gem seems to be (IMHO) one of those songs that just _cannot_ be done badly.Heaven knows **Jerry Lee Lewis** tried, he even collaborated with Robbie, and though the song came out pretty good, it still lacked the proper ambience.I don't think the Band ever nailed it completely, there are several 'officially released outtakes' in addition ...
One of the things I love about the digital age is the ability to cherry-pick a song by an artist I love off of a soundtrack CD without spending $17. And, somehow, I think that fans of *Shawn Colvin*, who writes gorgeous folk-pop songs are not the same ones watching teenage soap TV programs like ??Dawson's Creek??. So, like me, unless you are searching iTunes for one-off tracks like this, you ma...
I saw Shawn Colvin in concert for the first time a couple of weeks ago when she played the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA. She had a small band with her, which luckily included Buddy Miller, a fantastic guitarist and vocalist who has released many Americana / Country albums solo and with his wife Julie Miller. Shawn recently released her first album in many years, These Four Walls. The CD is e...
From my Ithaca sojourn (early 20s) until that fateful Nebraska day I gave up music, this was the introspective and melancholy album and this was the song. keep a pencil and a bookI say this is how a life can lookRussian roulette, French-kissed cigaretteAnd the silence like an anvilThe things that you learn,but now all that burnsIs a candleAnd the fog melts over the night,and it softens the edge...