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Post by majorminor on Jan 11, 2024 9:27:44 GMT -5
I've been working up an acoustic arrangement of this Springsteen song and when doing some research came across this. Wonderful!
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Post by Marshall on Jan 11, 2024 17:08:34 GMT -5
What's that tattoo? Doesn't look like a door.
(I'm sure you'd do a great job on that song)
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Post by drlj on Jan 11, 2024 21:26:09 GMT -5
What's that tattoo? Doesn't look like a door. (I'm sure you'd do a great job on that song) She calls it her bracelet tattoo.
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Post by millring on Jan 14, 2024 7:50:09 GMT -5
The first time I heard Shawn Colvin I was in a small church in Kalamazoo -- probably late 90s -- at a Red Clay Ramblers concert. She was sitting in with them as guitar and high vocal. They introduced her as a fairly recent winner of a New York songwriter contest and then played some of her early songs like Shotgun Down The Avalanche and I Don't Know Why. She wore hippy clothes and long hair past the middle of her back.
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Post by John B on Jan 14, 2024 12:43:29 GMT -5
Shawn Colvin writes wonderful songs, but she also is a great interpreter of others' songs, as evidenced by her cover of Bruce Springsteen posted above.
Covering David Bowie. Her really pretty guitar is the Shawn Colvin signature guitar. Three piece back, mirroring the headstock (rosewood center section with mahogany sides). M/0000, 000-depth.
Covering Tom Waits.
Covering Gnarls Barkley.
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Post by howard lee on Jan 14, 2024 13:12:59 GMT -5
She also does a heartbreaking cover of Rollie Salley's "Killing the Blues."
And her interpretation of The Band's "Twilight" gets me every time.
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Post by howard lee on Jan 14, 2024 15:58:01 GMT -5
Although not as much as the original early version by The Band, lead vocals by Richard Manuel and Levon Helm.
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Post by RickW on Jan 16, 2024 16:16:38 GMT -5
She also does a heartbreaking cover of Rollie Salley's "Killing the Blues." One of the guys in my jam does that song. It’s one of those songs that is so perfect, and yet so simple, that anyone will sound great doing it. Not the the guy in my jam is any slouch, but it instantly captivates the attention.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 16, 2024 16:46:02 GMT -5
SC is one of those performers I’ve lost over the years. 20 years ago she’d be in my top 5. I saw her solo on a split bill with Bruce Cockburn at Navy Pier around then fabulous concert. Her Christmas album is in my Holiday rotation.
But otherwise, she’s slipped thru the cracks for me. I know she’s still out there with that great voice and excellent guitar work. Just seems to have fallen off my radar.
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Post by billhammond on Jan 16, 2024 17:29:25 GMT -5
But otherwise, she’s slipped thru the cracks for me. I know she’s still out there with that great voice and excellent guitar work. Just seems to have fallen off my radar. Well, she always speaks highly of YOU.
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