Sonically, Steady On is a triumph, with its emotional intimacy captured with smooth precision. Vocally, Colvin's tender, sometimes whisper-like performances are astonishing and haunting, provocative and seductive all at once. Then there are the songs that flow so effortlessly into one another that to remove even one would seemingly upset the entire balance of the cosmos as we know it. The sly Colvin adeptly plays with words, beats, phrasing, and rhymes, focusing not just on the meaning, but also the feel and rhythm of the lyrics to great effect. Having once claimed that she tends to write about the "positive side of the painful experience," this album proves her point, for even if you do listen amidst gray skies and drizzles, you will be soothed to the point of contentment. The opening strains of the wistful title track set the mood and ease you into Colvin's head and heart, as you embark on this journey with her to discover countless souls and their heretofore untold truths. On a album full of great songs, "Shotgun Down the Avalanche" still stands as one of her finest compositions, with its metaphoric imagery of riding an out-of-control emotional tide as one would cascade helplessly down a mountain of snow. The requisite troubadour-on-the-road tune, "Ricochet in Time," is made ever more poignant by Colvin's sleepy vocal track, bringing home the weariness that is a very large part of being an artist on tour. Steady On is a must have for anyone who loves acoustic music created in the grand tradition of Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, two legends Colvin now counts as contemporaries.
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...
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This is late night driving, no destination, just driving around Ithaca, me and my friend Chris in his car, listening to music: Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Crowded House, and this one, the only thing I've ever stole, except he spared me the infamy of stealing by giving it as a gift when it became clear I was never going to return it. and I have it steal (wops, still), one of a few cassettes I've hun...
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I'm riding shotgun down the avalancheTumbling and falling down the avalancheSo be quiet tonight the starsshine brightOn this mountain of new fallen snowBut I will raise up my voice intothe voidYou have left me nowhere to goI love you so much and it's so bizarreA mystery that goes on and on and onThis is the best thing and the verymost hardAnd we don't get alongAfter countless appeals we keepspi...
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If losing sleep were any indicationOf the loving that I've missedI would wrap myself around youBut how likely can that be when I feel like thisAnd if life were not unfortunateAnd reason blew like summer through the treesI would stop to let you catch meBut I think that you would find me on my kneesAnd it's gonna be another long one tonightIt's just me and my well-intentioned spiteI said someone ...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Steady On |
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| 2 Diamond in the Rough |
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| 3 Shotgun Down the Avalanche |
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| 4 Stranded |
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| 5 Another Long One |
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| 6 Cry Like an Angel |
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| 7 Something to Believe In |
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| 8 The Story |
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| 9 Ricochet in Time |
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| 10 The Dead of the Night |
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