SHAWN COLVIN - WHOLE NEW YOU - CD

ILS65.58

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Artist:
COLVIN,SHAWN
Title:
WHOLE NEW YOU
Genre:
POP / ROCK
SKU:
074646988923
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    SKU/Barcode: 074646988923

    Whole New You is an appropriate title for Shawn Colvin's fourth studio album of new material her first in four-and-a&# 45;half years. Much has happened in the interim. In career terms Colvin had made several modestly selling albums before A Few Small Repairs appeared in the fall of 1996. The album was another modest seller until "Sunny Came Home" hit the singles charts in the spring of 1997 going on to hit number one on the adult contemporary lists and the Top Ten on the pop charts. Then it won the Song of the Year and Record of the Year Grammys while A Few Small Repairs spent a year in the charts and sold close to a million copies. That means that Colvin can no longer be considered a niche artist but must compete in the mainstream even though she is actually a one-hit wonder up to this point. She reacted as you might suspect an artist would after a breakthrough release; she maintained her exposure by doing a Christmas album and some soundtrack work while taking her time on a follow-up. Personally her life has been at least as tumultuous. A Few Small Repairs was her divorce album but during the lengthy run-up to Whole New You she remarried and had a child which clearly has given her a different perspective (and another reason for that title). Within all this change however there are certain constants. She continues to collaborate with writer producer and multi-instrument alist John Leventhal who continues to come up with imaginative musical tracks clearly informed by mid-'60s pop sensibilities. The title track (and first single) for example is distinctly Beatles-esque with twangy guitar and George Martin-style spare string arrangement while "Bonefields" employs what by now should be called the Burt Bacharach Memorial Horn Trick a sole flugelhorn playing a countermelody at the end of the tune. The arr Columbia