A Few Small Repairs

Artist: Shawn Colvin
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 074646711927
EAN: 0074646711927
ASIN: B000002B4G

Release Date: 1996-10-01

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Tracks:

Sunny Came Home
Get Out Of This House
The Facts About Jimmy
You And The Mona Lisa
Trouble
I Want It Back
If I Were Brave
Wichita Skyline
84,000 Different Delusions
Suicide Alley
New Thing Now
Nothin On Me

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Customer Reviews:

Fresh Sound.......2007-03-03

What a great CD. Such a fresh sound. Really sounds like she is having fun when she is singing. What a unique style. I will seek out other SC CD's after hearing this masterpiece.

If I Were Brave..........2006-12-26

In the late 90's Shawn Colvin was one of many in the "angry female singer with guitar" genre. However she is one of the few to not only outlast but to PREDATE this trend. Shawn has been running her own show from the ground up for years and put out consistantly (albiet long-awaited) solid work throwing back memories of Carly Simon and Carol King in terms of emotional poingnancy and clarity. Her work is evocative in its lyrics and in its overall sound and feel.

A Few Small Repairs was the album that put Shawn Colvin on the mainstream map and it's not hard to see why: The album title is taken from the first song (and the biggest single) Sonny Came Home: A hard-edged, slightly-lilting guitar hook filled with urgency immediatly pulls one into the emotional trip this album takes. Shawn seems primarily concerned on this album with finding meaning in life and doing what it takes to be happy. This takes many forms: Sonny Came Home is clearly one woman's escape from an abusive spouse. Several other songs on the album point to this "broken relationship" theme.

This is all pretty standard fare but in my opinion the true emotional center of the album comes from "If I Were Brave." Colvin speaks an indesputible truth: She is trying to do the best that she can and try as she might...her song uses biting irony to show that sometimes you can't be more than you are by simply putting on a "brave" facade for the world and trying to live a life that is not true to your nature. This reviewer has seen clarity of prose and verse like this only amongst some of the finest songwriters of our time.

I like it but..........2006-09-04

This is a good cd but this artist has so much more substance live. Her accompanying guitar player was very expressive. I saw them live on (I think) soundstage and she was really good. These songs took on a different light in a live context.

Folk-rock at its best.......2006-05-06

Having recently delved into the folk and folk-rock genres, I came upon Shawn Culvin. Had I known she was the singer-songwriter who sang "Sunny Came Home" I'd have probably gotten her CD a long time ago, since that song was hugely famous in my pre-teenage years. The aforementioned "Sunny" is brilliant in every sense, and definitely deserved its Grammy wins for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. The rest of the album is surprisingly consistent; "Get Out Of This House" is darn near as listenable as "Sunny Came Home," but not quite. "The Facts About Jimmy" is brilliant as well. A Few Small Repairs is definitely a worthwhile addition to any serious music fan's collection.

The haunting, enigmatic, 'Sunny Came Home' is.......2006-01-21

simply a masterpiece. A net search of various interpretations of this piece yeilds many of them. Art, good art, in my opinion, summons the listener's imagination and "Sunny Came Home" certainly does that. Especially the rendering of conscious and subconscious dialogue by Sunny. Oddly, the CD version is much better than what I initially heard on broadcast, which is an added plus for those of us who bought this album. It's also a tireless tune that does not get tiresome with each listening. Shawn's other songs on this CD are pretty darned good as well. Perfection is hard to describe but this is my best shot at describing "Sunny Came Home."

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