All Fall Down (Shawn Colvin album) explained

All Fall Down
Type:	studio album
Artist:	Shawn Colvin
Cover:	All Fall Down (Shawn Colvin album).jpg
Released:	June 5, 2012
Recorded:	2011–12 at Buddy's
Genre:	Rock, contemporary folk
Length:	41:41
Label:	Nonesuch
Producer:	Buddy Miller
Prev Title:	These Four Walls
Prev Year:	2006
Next Title:	Uncovered
Next Year:	2015

All Fall Down is the eighth studio album by recording artist Shawn Colvin, released in 2012.^[1] The album is Colvin's second studio release on Nonesuch Records and features collaborations with Emmylou Harris and Patty Griffin.^[2]

Track listing

1. "All Fall Down" (Shawn Colvin, John Leventhal) – 3:49
2. "American Jerusalem" (Rod MacDonald) – 5:14
3. "Knowing What I Know Now" (Colvin, Leventhal) – 3:24
4. "Seven Times the Charm" (Colvin, Leventhal, Jakob Dylan) – 4:26
5. "Anne of the Thousand Days" (Colvin, Bill Frisell) – 4:26
6. "The Neon Lights of the Saints" (Colvin, Leventhal) – 2:55
7. "Change Is on the Way" (Colvin, Patty Griffin) – 3:16
8. "I Don't Know You" (Colvin, Viktor Krauss) – 3:32
9. "Fall of Rome" (Colvin, Kenny White) – 3:54
10. "Up On That Hill" (Mick Flannery) – 3:44
11. "On My Own" (B. W. Stevenson) – 3:01

Reception

Rolling Stones Will Hermes gave the album three stars out of five, saying the music heals, and particularly praising the song "American Jerusalem", which he says "will resonate for anyone who ever hated the Big Apple, even for a New York minute".^[3]

Notes and References

1. Woodstra, Chris Shawn Colvin Biography All Music, retrieved May 25, 2012
2. Web site: Surviving a Struggle with a Sense of Hope. April 10, 2014.
3. Web site: Shawn Colvin: All Fall Down. April 10, 2014.