.
The concert was opened by a welcoming and accomplished duo
from Colvin’s band, Larry Campbell and
Teresa Williams.
Colvin is celebrating 20 years since the success of her Few Small Repairs album with a full
band concert at Celtic Connections festival and the re-release of a newly
expanded album edition.
Tonight she performed the songs from the album along with
other fan favourites such as ‘Diamond in the Rough’. There were several stand
out songs, ‘You and Mona Lisa’, ‘Simple Truth’, ‘Wichita Skyline’, ‘Nothin On
Me’, ‘Suicide Alley’ ‘New Thing Now’ and ‘I’ll Be Back.’
She also stripped it back to only her voice and piano on a
couple of songs. At one point she spoke of her lyric book. She sang a four
songs encore encouraged by fans applause.
An
enjoyable, quality concert. She sang of heartbreak and enduring and her sound elegantly
mixes country, pop and contemporary. Colvin is an engrossing, subtle songstress
with immersive and sensitive songs and voice.
Shawn Colvin is the recipient of the Americana Music
Association’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement Trailblazer Award,
A Few Small Repairs SONGS: Sunny Came Home, Get Out of This
House, The Facts About Jimmy, You and
the Mona Lisa, I Want it Back, If I Were Brave, Wichita Skyline, 84,000
Different Delusions, Suicide Alley, What I Get Paid For, New Thing Now, Nothin
On M. - http://www.shawncolvin.com
