Shawn Colvin [Cover Girl]
This is my favourite Shawn Colvin disc, as the title suggests, this is a covers album, Colvin singing other peoples songs, none of them are particularly 'famous', apart from the first track maybe, she started out singing other peoples songs, and she still likes to sing the odd song live, so it made sense for her to do a whole albums worth, it was a great idea, what makes this disc extra special is that she goes off the beaten track with some of her own personal favourites, it therefore also doubles as a great exploratory disc, there's Artists and songs you can check out, and further your musical searches and loves, Colvin recorded half of these tracks in the studio, and the other half live [they're mixed up, rather than first half studio, second half live], usually this is a recipe for recording disaster, but here it works seamlessly with aplomb, i love the live involvement, most songs are wonderful gems, the instrumentation is fairly acoustic and intimate, this resides roughly at No 50 in my all time favourite discs.
Shawn Colvin is American, born in 1956, making her 55 today, she recorded this album in 1994, the photography throughout the booklet is by Cathrine Wessel, the booklet is a foldout six page long affair, with Colvin regaling her experiences with each song.
Playing this disc again was a beautiful experience, the album has a lovely variety to it, i so much enjoyed the late middle of the album, tracks 8-10, here she gets really intimate and emotional, and i would like to give a synopsis of these three songs,
8 Someday - a Steve Earle song, i originally heard the Earle version first, and the Colvin version is quite similar, maybe Steve Earle sings it more like 'i'm tired of this place, and i just want to get out!', Colvin is a bit more restrained,
9 Twilight -
