Shawn Colvin - These Four Walls
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Free Music Review: Wearing this one out it's so good
Hit: 5 Stars
I love this album and have been playing it daily. Great lyrics, catchy tunes, a little melancholy - perfect for winter!Free Music Review: Wonderful CD!
Hit: 5 Stars
I had a feeling this might be a good one and I'm thrilled with it. Shawn is an incredible songwriter.
KAC
Free Music Review: Beautiful as always
Hit: 5 Stars
Shawn Colvin always gives me what I want! Yet another CD that is just about perfect...Free Music Review: great album from a great artist
Hit: 5 Stars
What more is there to say - if you like shawn colvin, you will love this album.Free Music Review: Always worth the wait
Hit: 4 Stars
Perhaps the lack of recognition given Shawn Colvin is due to her drawn out release schedule. With two albums in 11 years, she could give Boston a run for Tom Sholz's money. Maybe if she'd been a bit more prolific, she'd be recognized as the terrific artist she truly is. But then again, as each CD is a knock-out collection without filler tracks, maybe it's just as well. The appreciative audience of fans (like me) that snap up the CD's as they trickle out are always assured of only the finest quality music.
"These Four Walls" is no exception. Eleven new songs and two covers, there isn't a wasted note or overplayed stanza on the entire CD. Songs of lover's resignation (the beautiful title song) and bitter rants like "Tuff Kid" are interlaced with love songs like "Let It Slide" and her cover of the Bee Gees' "Words." Producer and co-writer John Leventhal does for Colvin what he has done over numerous times through the years: frames Colvin letter perfectly. It is the same kind of empathic touch he gave to Rosanne Cash on "Black Cadillac."
The show, however, belongs to Colvin. Her delivery of these songs is unflinchingly honest, and had this been the time of hits for the likes of her, Natalie Merchant and Suzanne Vega in the late 80's, the audience for this would be clamoring for "Summer Dress" and "Venetian Blue" on the radio or even VH1. But alas, Shawn Colvin's "These Four Walls" will suffer the commercial fate of more discriminatory buyers, like the folks who are probably reading this review. So what are you waiting for?
One of the best of 2006.