◇ image via WikipediaShawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of John Craigie, Bill Medley, Steve Earle, Judee Sill and Dar Williams. Those roots explain a lot about how Shawn Colvin arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Indigo Girls, Jewel, Sheryl Crow, Heather Nova and Jennifer Warnes, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Teddy Thompson, Curtis Stigers, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Steve Earle and Amel Larrieux, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 55 connections around Shawn Colvin, reaching back through John Craigie and forward to Teddy Thompson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Shawna Lee "Shawn" Colvin is an American singer and songwriter. She began her career performing in several folk and rock bands throughout the 1970s and 1980s before touring with Suzanne Vega in 1988, which landed her a recording contract with Columbia Records. Her debut studio album Steady On (1989) received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Her subsequent albums Fat City (1992) and Cover Girl (1994) saw moderate commercial success before Colvin's fourth studio album A Few Small Repairs (1996) saw the large success of the single "Sunny Came Home", which received the Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Colvin's career also gained a following in the 1990s after she performed during all three original iterations of the Lilith Fair music festival. Following the release of her fifth studio album Whole New You (2001), Colvin signed with Nonesuch Records for her next two studio albums These Four Walls (2006) and All Fall Down (2012), both of which saw continued moderate success. Her most recent studio releases include Uncovered (2015) and The Starlighter (2018). William Morrow published Colvin's memoir Diamond in the Rough in 2012 to a positive reception.
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Shawn Colvin connections
Shawn Colvin grew out of John Craigie, Bill Medley, Steve Earle and Judee Sill, shares an orbit with Indigo Girls, Jewel, Sheryl Crow and Heather Nova, went on to shape Teddy Thompson, Curtis Stigers, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Steve Earle. 55 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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