“Play the songs you love”: An Interview With Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin prepares an acoustic edition of her 1989 debut album, and discusses her transformation from impossibly eclectic singer to focused and formidable singer-songwriter.
Shawn Colvin prepares an acoustic edition of her 1989 debut album, and discusses her transformation from impossibly eclectic singer to focused and formidable singer-songwriter.
The singer-songwriter's reworking of children's music by Alex Wilder is both simple and sophisticated, offering a renewal of a style of comforting pop that we simply don't hear much any more.
A 1996 classic, Shawn Colvin's album of mature pop is also one of best break-up albums, comparable lyrically and musically to Joni Mitchell's Hejira and Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks.