Shawn Colvin - Live
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Artist: Shawn ColvinBrand: COLVIN,SHAWN
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-06-23
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Polaroids
- A Matter of Minutes
- Shotgun Down the Avalanche
- Twilight
- Trouble
- Tennessee
- Nothing Like You
- Sunny Came Home
- Fill Me Up
- Wichita Skyline
- I'm Gone
- Ricochet in Time
- Diamond in the Rough
- Crazy
- This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)
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Free Music Review: Shawn Colvin Live (Again)
Hit: 5 Stars
My first exposure to Shawn Colvin was before she struck gold with the song "Sunny Came Home" from her album "A Few Small Repairs". I was working on a friend's boat and "Live 88" was playing in the background. About the second time through it, I remember thinking "My God, this girl is brilliant - who is she?" Since that day, Shawn Colvin has been my favorite artist.
Shawn makes her living as a live performer, and has done so for a very long time. For much of her career, she has gone on stage alone, just herself and her guitar. She seems to prefer it this way, and many of her most ardent fans, myself included, feel she shines brightest by her own light. It is a sad fact that an acoustic guitar gets lost or relegated to a supporting role when played in a band setting. When played without accompaniment, however, we can hear all the subtle sounds a great musician can coax out of her instrument, and so it is here. It's just Shawn, her guitar, and us.
The 15 selections on Live are drawn equally from Shawn's 6 studio albums; 3 from her debut "Steady On", 2 from "Fat City", 2 from "Cover Girl", 3 from "A Few Small Repairs", 2 from her almost forgotten "Whole New You", 2 from "These Four Walls" and one previously unreleased track, her recent cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy". The tracks were recorded during a 3 night stand at the famous jazz club Yoshi's in San Francisco in 2008. The sound quality is excellent, with the background so quiet we can hear the whine of the strings as Shawn's hands move up and down the guitar neck, especially on the second track, "Matter of Minutes", the world's prettiest post partum song. Shawn's voice, even after nearly 35 years of singing professionally, is sweet, young, and pitch perfect as always.
It is irresistible to compare "Live" with Shawn's earlier live release, 1995's "Live 88". Although not released until 1995, most of that earlier album was recorded during a single show in 1988 at the very dawn of Shawn's career as a songwriter. The selections on "Live 88" are all songs from her debut album (plus a cover or two) because that was all she had at that point. Her delivery was more energetic then, and her playing more percussive as she makes heavy use of the unique right hand string deadening technique that has become her signature. By contrast, her performance on 2009's "Live" is more polished and less urgent, and why shouldn't it be? Since 1988, she's put 22 years in the mirror, been married and divorced twice, become a mother, been through menopause, and won 3 Grammies. I find both albums a joy to listen to, but I admit that "Live 88" is still my favorite.
Shawn Colvin Live was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album of 2009, and although it didn't win, what we have here is the definitive live album of Shawn's career to this point, and the next best thing to seeing this great singer/songwriter in performance on stage.
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'I've been doing this a long time,' declared Shawn Colvin upon the release of her 2006 Nonesuch debut, These Four Walls, 'and it's great to feel like I'm doing my best work now.' This new live solo set reconfirms that feeling. The three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter combines material from two decades' worth of recordings and makes it all sound even more deeply insightful and compellingly up to date, recent songs like 'Fill Me Up,' the yearning opening track of These Four Walls, and the tougher, bleaker 'I'm Gone,' seem as much like old favorites now as 'Sonny Came Home,' Colvin's career-making Top 40 success, and 'Shotgun Down the Avalanche,' from her 1989 major-label debut, Steady On. Along with original songs from five studio albums, Colvin performs covers of Robbie Robertson's 'Twilight' and Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy.' With the latter, she transforms what was a funky, sing-along smash into something dark, brooding and bluesy and she performs it with utter conviction to a rapt audience. She ends on a sweeter, more hopefully romantic note with a version of Talking Heads' 'This Must Be the Place,' which she made her own years ago on the 1994 Cover Girl collection.Folk Music CDs
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