★★★★★
In terms of Americana royalty - specifically when considering female artists - Colvin's place at the top table alongside Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Patty Griffin has long been assured. All four women make their presence felt on All Fall Down, either as harmony vocalists or co-writers, but it's always Colvin running the show, distinguishing herself with one of the best albums of her already impressive career...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
After three Grammys, seven albums, and a spoof on The Simpsons, Shawn Colvin's earned her keep as a singer-songwriter. The Austinite's laid down her last 22 years in folk-pop confessionals - and most recently in new memoir Diamond in the Rough - but her eighth studio LP, All Fall Down, is an aural and lyrical departure. Recorded at the home of producer Buddy Miller, Colvin shies away from her high-range crooning, instead settling into a deep, rich alto with an added country twang...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2012-07-02
★★★★★
The singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin is blessed with a wondrous voice - a clear but distinctive, confessional but ringing instrument that lends all her music a signature sound of hip intimacy. However, her best work is less about her performances than about the stories she tells and how she matches them to bracing, unique melodies...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-06-28
★★★★★
Things that make you squirm on Shawn Colvin's Fat City:songwriters who seem to think it's not a song until the page isfilled with words; songwriters who seem to think music and lyricsneed not be wedded or even living together; songwriters who seem tothink introspection is more important than communication; songwriterswho seem to think it's daring to use the word shit ? and then whisperit; songwriters who...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Shawn Colvin's first newalbum in four years ? A Few Small Repairs, a song cycle about her own failedmarriage ? could have been a sobfest. Instead, it's a declarationof independence, from the austere resignation of "WichitaSkyline" to the acidic jeering of "Get Out of This House." Fullof wisdom and ravishing melodies, Repairs is a tour de forcethat needs no fixing.
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Shawn Colvin's early albums of the late '80s and early '90s were marred by heavy-handed production that dampened the brilliance of her songwriting. The expertly crafted, intelligent takes on relationships and small-town living were viewed through the rose-tinted spectacles of mainstream country pop slickness. Colvin's insight, wit, and zeal were then only instantly apparent during live performance, at first on New York's café circuit and later on ever larger stages...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
For 15 years now, Shawn Colvin has proved herself to be a consistently pleasant, if rarely pulse-quickening, singer of nice, demure folk. She's guided by an easily bruised heart ? even when she's covering tracks by Tom Waits, the Police and Talking Heads, she makes them sound inconsolably sad...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Track Listing: Polaroids; A Matter of Minutes; Shotgun Down the Avalanche; Twilight; Tennessee; Nothing Like You; Sunny Came Home; Fill Me Up; Wichita Skyline; I'm Gone; Ricochet In Time; Diamond in the Rough; Crazy; This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody). Personnel: Shawn Colvin: guitar, vocal...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-11-05
★★★★★
Shawn Colvin's music is part folk, part country and part AOR; it's a curious blend represented on the singer/songwriter's retrospective showcase of a career that began singing back-up vocals on Suzanne Vega's "Luka."Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection covers all of Colvin's albums, from debut Steady On to the most recent Whole New You...
- www.ink19.com
2009-07-20
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