#SUNNY CAME HOME SHAWN COLVIN ACAPELLA FULL#

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin, known for the hits, 'Sunny Came Home' and 'Steady On,' will perform at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock Friday Night.

On this occasion, the trade-off was worth it to hear her best-known album in all its glory.Ĭampbell and Williams’ opening set recalled a similar one they’d played two years ago forĪ Jackson Browne concert at Bass Concert Hall that, fittingly, featured a cameo appearance from Colvin.Watch Video: Simi Stone: Video for 'Good Friend' In Time.” When you’ve written and recorded as many great songs as Colvin has in her three-decade recording career, some omissionsĪre inevitable. That meant forgoing early-career favorites such as “Polaroids,” “I Don’t Know Why,” “Shotgun Down the Avalanche” and “Ricochet The gorgeous “Diamond in the Rough,” which ended the night. And she added two from her Grammy-winning 1989 debut album “Steady On”: its personal-anthem title track and She’s made two all-covers albums - Colvin supplemented the opening Petty tune with songs by Tom Waits (“Ol’ 55”) and Warren Zevon (“Tenderness on the Block”) One of the greatest interpreters of her generation - there’s Said, Colvin chose well for the five other numbers in the show. The down side to full-album shows like this, of course, is what you don’t hear from the rest of the artist’s career. Musical highlights included “You and the Mona Lisa,” with an unusual arrangement that included dueling melodicas from RamosĪnd Williams the elegiac “If I Were Brave,” which began with Colvin solo at the piano before Campbell and Ramos added beautifulĪccents of fiddle and flugelhorn, respectively and “Suicide Alley,” which put the spotlight on Fukunaga’s artful playing Led to “A Few Small Repairs.” An example: “Sunny Came Home” started out as “Forty Red Men,” then went through several iterations

#SUNNY CAME HOME SHAWN COLVIN ACAPELLA FULL#

In the lobby included a reproduction of the composition notebook full of brainstorms and lyrical progressions that ultimately One of the most illuminating moments was a mid-set pause when Colvin explained that her merch table The appreciative audience stuck around for the duration, eager to hear how the evening would unfold as Colvin proceeded through Up-front - after a beautiful cover of Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers” to open the show - she joked that she understood some people It’s the first song on the album, so when Colvin played it right Won Grammys for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The first track on “A Few Small Repairs” was “Sunny Came Home,” which Not to say that albums don’t have stand-alone hits, too. Lot of thought and care goes into the selection and sequencing of songs, a great album can add up to much more than the sumĪmerican-Statesman 2012 interview with Shawn Colvin The cohesion of a nearly hourlong album is a refreshing reminder of why the form dominated music sales for decades.

At a time when streaming services tend to steer listeners toward singles and playlists, Her nearly two-hour performance, in addition to opening the night with a 45-minute set as a duo.Ĭoncerts in which bands play one of their best-known records from start to finish have become a fad of sorts in recent years,Īnd it’s a welcome trend in many respects. Campbell and his wife, Teresa Williams, provided vital instrumental and vocal support to Colvin throughout The ringer was guitarist Larry Campbell, a former sideman with Bob Dylan, Doug Sahm and Levon Helm who has known Colvin for Indeed, much of what made this show special was the band, which included keyboardist Michael Ramos, bassist It’s been 21 years, but much of the album’s impact came in 1997, leading up to two Grammys it received in early 1998.) Monday’sįinale was a homecoming not only for longtime Austinite Colvin but for three bandmates who also are fixtures in the local On Monday night at the Paramount Theatre was hearing her share some of those backstories along the way.Ī-list gallery from Shawn Colvin concert at the ParamountĬolvin has spent most of this fall on a seven-week tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of “A Few Small Repairs.” (Technically “There are backstories to these songs,” Shawn Colvin noted as she finished “The Facts About Jimmy,” a tune from her platinum-sellingġ996 album “A Few Small Repairs.” Indeed there were, and part of the charm in hearing Colvin play that entire record in sequence

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