Shawn Colvin - These Four Walls
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Artist: Shawn ColvinEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Fill Me Up
- These Four Walls
- Tuff Kid
- Summer Dress
- Cinnamon Road
- Venetian Blue
- The Bird
- I'm Gone
- Let It Slide
- Even Here We Are - Shawn Colvin, Westerberg, Paul
- So Good to See You
- That Don't Worry Me Now
- Words - Shawn Colvin, Gibb, Barry
Music reviews of These Four Walls
Music Review: Fills you up
Rating: 4 Stars
Shawn Colvin has always been a rather charming artist of smart sentiments and pleasant arrangements - it leads to lovely, not especially challenging songs, and a general feeling of goodwill towards Colvin. I'm a fan, I suppose, but I'd never think of her as one of the great "artists" of her time. I suppose that's still the case after These Four Walls, but I did find myself compelled to buy it, and, a good year and a half after purchasing it, it strikes me that I still listen to the songs regularly, and that there's not a clunker in the bunch. "Fill Me Up" begins the set with charming guitar and a vulnerable, winning melody, and "These Four Walls" capitalizes on it with rather lovely anxiety. Throughout the records, though, Colvin seems to be on a songwriting roll, and songs surprise you with ways they creep up in your memory - "That Don't Worry Me Now" with its sweet, soulful satisfaction, "Ventian Blue" with its rainy-day malaise, "Let It Slide" with its old-person-feeling-young kick. I can't say that the album as a whole adds up to anything more than a good collection of songs, but I suppose that's plenty to ask from an album anyway, and on "Summer Dress" I'm reminded of all of the great musical moments Colvin's career has given us over the years - and I'm very much given another.
Description of These Four Walls
This is Shawn Colvin's first album since 2001's A Whole New You. On These Four Walls, Colvin displays an easy-going sophistication and an appealingly grown-up spin on both her own evocative songs and the smartly-chosen covers she interprets.Shawn Colvin's fans are a dedicated and patient lot. They've had to be, to have waited five years for this new release and nearly six for the one before it. But she rewards the faithful with gems every time, and These Four Walls is no exception. Despite a label change to the more musically adventurous Nonesuch, after having been associated with Columbia since 1989, this is a typically low-key yet beautifully constructed set. Colvin again works with producer/songwriter John Leventhal, her musical collaborator for the past quarter-century, and that long-standing partnership pays off with 11 superbly crafted originals. Colvin's breathy voice conveys the emotion, yearning, sadness, and even the occasional joy and hope behind the melodies. As producer, Leventhal colors these songs with subtle textures, adding organ, brushed drums, and layered electric and acoustic guitars to bolster but never overwhelm the songs or Colvin's delicate yet defined vocals. It's a clean but never-slick sound, with enough edge and dynamics to reflect the nuances in the lyrics. Covers of the obscure Paul Westerberg track "Even Here We Are" and the Bee Gees' "Words"--the latter sounding like a demo, with just acoustic guitar, spare bass, and sparse piano--illuminate additional details in her approach. They round out one of Colvin's finest, most honest, and poignant collections. It's an album worth the extended wait. --Hal Horowitz
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