Ĭolvin has made vocal contributions to songs by James Taylor, Béla Fleck, Edwin McCain, Shawn Mullins, Elliott Murphy and Bruce Hornsby, and collaborated with Sting on the song "One Day She'll Love Me". A Few Small Repairs was reissued in 2017, including its first pressing on vinyl, for its 20th anniversary. In 2016 she recorded an album with Steve Earle called Colvin and Earle. Colvin published her memoir Diamond in the Rough in 2012. The album featured guest appearances by Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss and Jakob Dylan. Ĭolvin's eighth studio album, All Fall Down, was released in 2012 and was produced by Buddy Miller at his home studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2009 she released Live, which was recorded at the jazz club Yoshi's in Oakland, California. In 2006, Colvin left Columbia Records and released a 15-song album called These Four Walls on her new label, Nonesuch Records, which featured contributions by Patty Griffin and Teddy Thompson. In 2004, she released a compilation of past songs called, Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection. Colvin released the album Holiday Songs and Lullabies in 1998 and in 2001 released another album called Whole New You. The song won the 1998 Grammy Awards for both Song and Record of the Year. In 1996, Colvin released her album A Few Small Repairs and, in 1997, her single " Sunny Came Home" spent four weeks at the number one spot on the Adult Contemporary chart.
In 1995, Colvin released her album Live 88 a collection of live recordings from 1988. In 1993, she moved back to Austin and, in 1994, released the album Cover Girl. Her song "I Don't Know Why" was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Female Pop Vocal category. Colvin's second album Fat City was released in 1992 and received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Īfter touring with Vega, Colvin signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and released her debut album Steady On in 1989. While participating in off-Broadway shows such as Pump Boys and Dinettes she was featured in Fast Folk magazine, and in 1987, producer Steve Addabbo hired her to sing backup vocals on the song " Luka" by Suzanne Vega. Ĭolvin relocated to New York City, joining the Buddy Miller Band in 1980 and later became involved in the Fast Folk cooperative of Greenwich Village. Colvin relocated to Austin, Texas, with the group and then entered "the folk circuit in and around Berkeley, California, before straining her vocal cords and taking a sabbatical at the age of 24. She later formed Dixie Diesels, a country-swing group. During this time, Colvin struggled with drug and alcohol use. For six months, they expanded their fanbase throughout Illinois. Colvin performed at local venues in Carbondale and later formed a band. Her first paid gig came just after she started college at Southern Illinois University. She learned to play guitar at the age of 10 and grew up listening to her father's collection of music, which included artists such as Pete Seeger and the Kingston Trio. While Colvin has been a solo recording artist for decades, she is best known for her 1998 Grammy Award-winning song " Sunny Came Home".Ĭolvin was born Shawna Lee Colvin in Vermillion, South Dakota, and spent her youth in Carbondale, Illinois, and London, Ontario, Canada. We were just in a great space.Shawn Colvin (born Shawna Lee Colvin, January 10, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. There was a real sense of ease and freedom and no rules. We’re not going to worry about the radio. John and I were like, what the hell, we’re just going to make a record we like and turn it in. There were a couple things on those previous records where I made concessions in the production and stuff like that. We didn’t think we were not pop or worthy, but in the previous three records there’d been attempts by the record company to put out singles and cross our fingers and hope they went somewhere, and they didn’t. When we made that record, we’d kind of written off the idea of having radio-friendly songs. In the 11th hour, “Sunny Came Home” was really barely there-in fact I think I had it as ‘Jimmy Came Home’ at one point before I’d written the lyric to “The Facts about Jimmy” I looked at this cover and I thought, you need to write a story about this woman on the cover who’s got a lit match and a big fire in the background. I just liked Julie Speed’s work and I really wanted something different rather than a photo. The inspiration behind that story came from the painting that I chose to be on the cover of the record.
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