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Every Little Thing (He) Does Is Magic | Shawn Colvin | 3:15 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday (Live) | Shawn Colvin | 3:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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One Cool Remove | Shawn Colvin | 3:17 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Satin Sheets (Live) | Shawn Colvin | 3:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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There's a Rugged Road | Shawn Colvin | 3:41 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Killing the Blues | Shawn Colvin | 3:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Window to the World | Shawn Colvin | 5:13 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Someday | Shawn Colvin | 4:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Twilight (Live) | Shawn Colvin | 2:52 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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If These Walls Could Speak | Shawn Colvin | 3:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) [Live] | Shawn Colvin | 4:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Live) | Shawn Colvin | 4:11 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Songs |
Album Review
When Shawn Colvin first turned up playing Greenwich Village folk clubs in the early 1980s, she used to perform a variety of cover songs, often taking rock recordings and re-imagining them for her girl-with-guitar format. When Colvin began recording in the late '80s, however, she concentrated on her own original material. Cover Girl brings her interpretive abilities back into focus. Songs like the Police's "Every Little Thing [He] Does Is Magic" and Talking Heads' "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" are the most radical reworkings here, but not the best, perhaps because they depend on their original productions. Colvin is more successful in choosing classic but not well-known songs already in the folk idiom — Greg Brown's "One Cool Remove," Willis Alan Ramsey's "Satin Sheets," and Rolly Solley's "Killing the Blues." A fan from the old Village days can only lament that she didn't choose to include her version of Dire Straits' "Romeo and Juliet."
Customer Reviews
What a girl!
A girl and her guitar cover some great and quirky songs. Shawn is one of the quintessential troubadors of the last decade or so. (BTW, her own stuff is wonderful too. Check out all of her CDs). But if you, like me, are not afraid to kvell over covers, you'll love these.
Cover girl
I agree with the first reviewer on everything...except the fact that "You're Gonna Make me Lonesome..." is Bob Dylan's song originally, not The Police's. I consider Shawn's versions of these songs classics now. It's not often that you can enjoy a cover version of a song just as much as the original.
Brings back some great memories......
I remember buying this tape 12 years ago when it first came out. I have since worn it out, so I am happy that iTunes finally offered this album. Her original stuff is great too but this is one album to have in your collection.
Biography
Born: January 10, 1956 in Vermillion, SD
Genre: Pop
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Shawn Colvin
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
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Sunny Came Home | Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection | 4:24 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Crazy | Crazy - Single | 3:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Sunny Came Home | A Few Small Repairs | 4:24 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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4 |
Fill Me Up | These Four Walls | 3:39 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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5 |
Never Saw Blue Like That | Songs from Dawson's Creek, Vol. 2 | 4:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Shotgun Down the Avalanche (Album Version) | Steady On | 5:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I Don't Know Why | Fat City | 4:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Diamond In the Rough | Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection | 5:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Never Saw Blue Like That | Runaway Bride (Music from the Motion Picture) | 4:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Steady On (Album Version) | Steady On | 4:58 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
- $9.99
- Genres: Pop, Music, Singer/Songwriter, Rock, Adult Alternative, Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Folk
- Released: Aug 18, 1994
- ℗ 1994 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
