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Shawn Colvin Bio
Shared experiences and common epiphanies run through the songs of Grammy winner Shawn Colvin. “It’s great to feel like I’m doing my best work now,” she notes, a singer-songwriter who grew up alongside of her audience, many of whom tell her how much they relate to what’s happening in her songs. Colvin maintains a delicate balance between confidence and vulnerability, performed from the vantage point of someone who’s had a chance to glance back somewhat ruefully at where she’s been.
Colvin garnered both Song of the Year and Record of the Year Grammys in 1998 for “Sunny Came Home,” and was awarded with a Best Contemporary Folk Grammy for her 1989 debut disc, “Steady On”.
As a storyteller, Colvin remains both clear-eyed and warm-hearted, leavening even her toughest tales with a little tenderness and a lot of empathy. Similarly, her musical arrangements are both succinct and seductive, understated enough to allow Colvin’s lyrics to sink in. Colvin and her longtime studio cohort —producer, multi-instrumentalist, and co-writer John Leventhal—aren’t afraid of pop hooks, either, but the ones they’ve fashioned here never sound contrived. A sing-along chorus or plaintive refrain come up as naturally as a bend in the road; they’re just part of the journey. Good-naturedly sexy songs share the spotlight with more cautionary, romantically ambivalent tales.
A Midwesterner from Carbondale, Illinois, Colvin first performed straight-up rock. Later, during a stint in Austin, she did western swing. Moving east, she backed up acts like Buddy Miller and Suzanne Vega and sang in off-Broadway shows. Colvin gained a reputation as a solo artist with an instinctive ear for great cover tunes, a skill she showcased on her 1994 Grammy-nominated “Cover Girl”.
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Concerts in the Garden - Shawn Colvin
