Live

Shawn Colvin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 23, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nonesuch
• ASIN: B00288AXRW
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,512 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Polaroids

2. A Matter of Minutes

3. Shotgun Down the Avalanche

4. Twilight

5. Trouble

6. Tennessee

7. Nothing Like You

8. Sunny Came Home

9. Fill Me Up

10. Wichita Skyline

11. I'm Gone

12. Ricochet in Time

13. Diamond in the Rough

14. Crazy

15. This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)

Editorial Reviews

'I've been doing this a long time,' declared Shawn Colvin upon the release of her 2006 Nonesuch debut, These Four Walls, 'and it's great to feel like I'm doing my best work now.' This new live solo set reconfirms that feeling. The three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter combines material from two decades' worth of recordings and makes it all sound even more deeply insightful and compellingly up to date, recent songs like 'Fill Me Up,' the yearning opening track of These Four Walls, and the tougher, bleaker 'I'm Gone,' seem as much like old favorites now as 'Sonny Came Home,' Colvin's career-making Top 40 success, and 'Shotgun Down the Avalanche,' from her 1989 major-label debut, Steady On. Along with original songs from five studio albums, Colvin performs covers of Robbie Robertson's 'Twilight' and Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy.' With the latter, she transforms what was a funky, sing-along smash into something dark, brooding and bluesy and she performs it with utter conviction to a rapt audience. She ends on a sweeter, more hopefully romantic note with a version of Talking Heads' 'This Must Be the Place,' which she made her own years ago on the 1994 Cover Girl collection.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Live - with one of the best!, July 15, 2009

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K. Rehnberg (Stockholm) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live (Audio CD)

This live album just like being there in the audience. I saw Shawn Colvin's live concert in Stockholm 2007, with only her and her guitar - and it was one of the best concerts I've ever experienced! This album is like re-living the concert time after time. Goosebumps all over!
Almost all her best songs are there (but not Steady On) and also some great covers like Crazy (the best cover ever...!).

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, August 23, 2009

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M. Menozzi "Film Lover" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live (Audio CD)

I love Shawn. I've seen her live concerts and she's terrific albeit it would be nice if she had some back up, at least for a few selections. Patty Griffin is a terrific live performer and she has both acoustic and back up to great effect so I'm at a loss on this live album. Her live album from '88 was great so why does she feel the need to include the same songs she's already played live? And some of the newer songs she plays could use the accompaniment not that she isn't a strong musician but they just don't carry the energy they need to have without it. Also, a couple of the songs are a bit offkey which surprised me because they could have used other versions recorded live. It's a good listen but not as full of energy and artistically pleasing as it could have been knowing her work.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Colvin's Voice and Guitar Skills Continue to Amaze, February 10, 2010

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H. Harvard (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live (Audio CD)

I'm always amazed when a performer can captivate with just a stunning voice, virtuoso guitar and pleasing manner. Such is the case with Ms. Colvin, who takes us on a musical journey with old chestnuts and a few newer tunes along the way. What amazes this reviewer is that all the takes on the songs seem as fresh as when they were recorded (Check out "Twilight" and "Matter of Minutes". And the guitar playing: magnificent.