Few Small Repairs, A

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:51:09
Personnel: Shawn Colvin (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, hand claps, trash can); John Leventhal (vocals, pedal steel & electric guitars, guitar, mandolin, violin, harmonica, organ, keyboards, bass, percussion); Sandra Park, Carol Webb (violin); Robert Rinehart (viola); Eugene Moye (cello); Rick Depofi (piccolo, recorder, clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone); Chris Botti (trumpet); Tony Kadlek (flugelhorn); Bob Carlisle (French horn); Larry Farrell (trombone); Michael Rhodes, Mark Plati (bass); Shawn Pelton (drums, percussion); Danny Ferrington, Judith Owen, Lyle Lovett, Kate Markowitz (background vocals).
Engineers include: John Leventhal.
Recorded at Sear Sound, 12th Street Studio and Shelter Island Sound, New York, New York; Cedar Creek Recording, Austin, Texas; Sony Studios, Los Angeles, California.
"Get Out Of This House" was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
A FEW SMALL REPAIRS was nominated for a 1997 Grammy for Best Pop Album.
"Sunny Came Home" won the 1998 Grammy Awards for Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year, and was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
When folk-rock and adult contemporary pop merged in the early '90s to give birth to the adult album alternative radio format, scores of singer-songwriters took the opportunity to bland out for big bucks, shortchanging listeners in the process. Shawn Colvin has emerged as the savior of AAA, bringing classy arrangements and high-quality songwriting to the mix, and inspiring a legion of imitators along the way.
Colvin's voice is a supple, elastic thing, bending notes and phrases to suit the idiosyncratic elan that is her trademark. Her songs combine ingratiating pop sensibilities with incisive, often poetic lyrics. Together with producer/guitarist John Leventhal, Colvin has created a sonic landscape that seduces the listener with rich, atmospheric washes of guitar and unabashedly pretty horn and string arrangements, while never obscuring the simple melodic statements that are the foundation of the songs. A FEW SMALL REPAIRS is the ideal pop confection; light and sweet on the surface, with a thick, chewy center.