Cover Girl (Shawn Colvin album) explained

Cover Girl
Type:Album
Artist:Shawn Colvin
Border:yes
Released:August 23, 1994
Recorded:1993–94
Venue:The Bitter End
Label:Columbia
Producer:Shawn Colvin, David Kahne, Steuart Smith
Prev Title:Fat City
Prev Year:1992
Next Title:A Few Small Repairs
Next Year:1996

Cover Girl is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin, released in 1994 on Columbia Records. Colvin is a singer-songwriter who usually records her own material, however, as the title alludes to, all of the tracks on the album are covers of previously recorded songs.

Reception

Cover Girl received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album.[1]

Track listing

Track NoSong titleSongwriter/composer(s)Length
1"Every Little Thing (He) Does Is Magic"Sting3:17
2"(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" [live]Tom Waits3:36
3"One Cool Remove" (feat. Mary Chapin Carpenter)Greg Brown3:19
4"Satin Sheets" [live]Willis Alan Ramsey3:10
5"There's a Rugged Road"Judee Sill3:43
6"Killing the Blues" [live] 3:47
7"Window to the World"Tom Littlefield 5:15
8"Someday"Steve Earle4:09
9"Twilight" [live]2:56
10"If These Walls Could Speak"Jimmy Webb3:06
11"This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" David Byrne, Chris Frantz,
Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth.
4:01
12"You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" [live]Bob Dylan4:10
13 (hidden)"Ol' 55" [live]Tom Waits

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cover Girl grammy nominations . June 2, 2008.