From: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org (small-repairs-digest) To: small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Subject: small-repairs-digest V5 #125 Reply-To: small-repairs@smoe.org Sender: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk small-repairs-digest Monday, August 13 2001 Volume 05 : Number 125 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [s-r] Shawn show at Cape Cod, MA [SteadyOnDC@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 15:44:53 EDT From: SteadyOnDC@aol.com Subject: [s-r] Shawn show at Cape Cod, MA Here's a review from the Cape Cod show... - -SteadyOnDC@aol.com - -------------------------------------------------------------- A musical therapy session with Shawn Colvin By DOUG FRASER STAFF WRITER HYANNIS - Shawn Colvin was bathed in blue light for her encore. She chose a Beatles song, slowed it down, stripped it of its pretty harmonies, and distilled it to the raw emotional core that is the power source for all the best songs. "You, would have better things to do, than to break my heart again," Colvin sang, revealing a different kind of Beatle, actually wanting to get hurt again by a lover who, at best, is sadistic. That's Colvin, psychological to the core. The winner of two Grammys for her 1996 album, "A Few Small Repairs," and its hit song, "Sunny Came Home," took the stage at the Melody Tent Thursday night and joked with the audience that her sets were like a psychotherapy session - slow to evolve with the big stuff, "the doorknob issues" saved for the last few minutes. She saved "Sunny" for the end, and its imagery is personal and poetic. "So get the kids and bring a sweater, dry is good and wind is better." Not exactly "Norwegian Wood," or O-bla-dee, O-bla-whatever. At 45, Colvin took the long road to fame, and her songs reflect a survivor of personal battles and the uneasy truce between men and women. "I can't get too sincere because I don't know how to recover from it," she joked. She also took the long road to motherhood, waiting until she was nearly 43 to have a child. The title track and big hit from her new CD, "Whole New You," is a reflection on motherhood and the power of being part of creating, and being responsible for a new human being. Her rendition was powerful and emotional and brought the audience to its feet. But Colvin is not just about the big hits. To relieve boredom on the road, she told the audience, she finds a good movie on the hotel channels and watches it over and over until she finds another good movie to watch. Her songs also pass that test; they can easily bear repeated listenings because Colvin constructs them with poetic and insightful images and phrases that go far beyond pretty refrains. She is a natural storyteller, stretching out a song to mine the heart of it every time. Her characters have "one foot dancing, the other nailed to the floor." In the song "Avalanche", a stormy relationship is portrayed as "riding shotgun down the avalanche." The fallout from that kind of ride is that the character finds "the past is stronger than my will to forgive." Her guitar work is dexterous, her voice at times strong, then vulnerable, and always hitched to the emotional star of the song. Opening act Kim Richey was also a find, with a strong voice that powered through a set of lyrical and lovely songs. Copyright ) 2001 Cape Cod Times. All rights reserved. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of small-repairs-digest V5 #125 *********************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs-digest' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http ://www.tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line ------------------------------------------------------------------------