Lyrically, it is a very dark song, but I love the mandolin melody that plays throughout. (I take that back, Bonnie Raitt was 40 when she put out Nick Of Time, and Sheryl Crow was 31 when her first record was made.) Most of the acts that were part of the New Wave of Female Singer-Songwriters in the Nineties were all in their 20s. I think one reason why Shawn Colvin is underappreciated is partly because she was 33 when she put out her first album, Steady On, in 1989.
A friend of mine even mentioned to me that he discovered the music of Tom Waits through Shawn Colvin. I always loved her work with Suzanne Vega, and she has a very nice contralto voice. It was a really great video, and I suggest you look it up just to mark my words. (Then again, I was born in 2001, so artists like Shawn Colvin, Shania Twain, Roseanne Cash, Aimee Mann, Jewel and Michelle Branch were the female artists I grew up listening to.) I saw a video of Shawn Colvin performing The Boxer with Allison Krauss in 2007 with Jerry Douglas on Dobro. (The song where a woman is tired of being abused by her husband, so she burns his house down as a revenge act.) Shawn Colvin has always been one of my favorite female acts. Shawn Colvin was the woman that wrote the song Sunny Came Home. Not sure if any of you know about Shawn Colvin, but she was a very well known folk rock singer-songwriter in the Nineties.
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