
Shawn played her most popular song, “Sunny Came Home,” the Grammy Award winner for Song of the Year in 1998. Shawn told the audience that she received the music from her collaborator, and one-time partner, John Leventhal. “That Don’t Worry Me Now” appeared on 2006’s These Four Walls. She mentioned that “Sunny Came Home” was originally titled “40 Red Men,” which her A&R rep explained was not going to work for reasons you might imagine. She then discussed the replica songwriting book for her album, A Few Small Repairs. In this vein, she follows other artists like Rodney Crowell, who released Acoustic Classics this year.Īfter “Cry Like an Angel,” Shawn played the first Tom Waits song of the evening, “Heart of Saturday Night,” which she first released on her 1994 album, Cover Girl. She is headed into the studio next year to make an all-acoustic recording of her old songs. Shawn told the audience that she hadn’t played “Cry Like an Angel,” from Steady On, for a long time before last night. Stream A Few Small Repairs by Shawn Colvin on Spotify: As she noted later in the evening, there never was a “Jimmy” - names have been changed to protect the object of her unrequited love. It’s back to doom and gloom,” and played the “Facts About Jimmy,” from A Few Small Repairs. Shawn quipped, “I’ve been in therapy so long that 45 minutes into this set, I just start winding it down.” Continuing to describe “Polaroids,” she revealed that, in writing the song, she found she was stealing from other songs, which led to her playing a hilarious medley.Īfter her song medley, Shawn joked, “I’m worn out.” She added, “That will be the most fun you have this evening. Almost as if she was speaking directly to me, Shawn said that she wrote those in 1987 or ’88, when she was on tour in Europe as a backup singer with Suzanne Vega, who had a big hit, “Luka.” Shawn regaled the audience with tales of playing Wembley Stadium in England and meeting the King of Sweden.

Shawn put my speculation to bed to with her rendition of “Polaroids,” also from Steady On. Shawn openly discusses, in her memoir and elsewhere, her history of addiction and mental health problems. When she immediately followed “Trouble” with “Riding Shotgun Down the Avalanche,” from her first album, 1989’s Steady On, I started to wonder. She didn’t say anything before or after her first number, leading into “Trouble,” from 1996’s A Few Small Repairs, which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1998.

Shawn played solo acoustic, beginning with a cover of Paul Simon’s “American Tune,” which she released on 2015’s Uncovered. In the book, she says, it’s a lucky thing that her daughter does too, as they will constitute most of her daughter’s inheritance.

As she discusses in her 2012 memoir, Diamond in the Rough, she loves clothes. His estimated net worth is $2 million.Shawn Colvin (Photo provided by Press Here)įor her show on Thursday at The Birchmere, Shawn Colvin appeared immaculately dressed.

Shawn Colvin Net WorthĬolvin is an American singer, songwriter, and musician whose primary source of income is from his music career. She voiced Rachel Jordan, Ned Flanders’ love interest after Maude is killed, in The Simpsons episode “Alone Again, Natura-Diddily” on February 13, 2000, and lent her vocals to Mary Chapin Carpenter’s 1992 recordings, “The Hard Way” and “Come On Come On”. She recorded as a duet the title track to Curtis Stigers 1995 album “Time Was”. Colvin has made vocal contributions to songs by James Taylor, Béla Fleck, Edwin McCain, Shawn Mullins, Elliott Murphy, Bruce Hornsby and collaborated with Sting on the song “One Day She’ll Love Me”.
