![]() ![]() ![]() Colvin has pared down her songs, tightening melodies and dropping most of the groaners. Songwriting is a process of subtraction as well as creation over the last decade, Ms. The song was featured on the singer-songwriter’s fourth album, released in 1996, which earned her a Grammy in 1997. But as a songwriter, her musical debts to Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and others were obvious in her lyrics, she emoted over cliches and had a post-collegiate penchant for dropping book titles. Sunny came home to her favorite room Sunny sat down in the kitchen She opened a book and a box of tools Sunny came. After a few seconds, Shawn Colvin sweetly croons, Sunny came home to her favorite room / Sunny sat down in the kitchen. contrasts very sharply with the destructive lyrics, particularly the haunting. Colvin released her first album in 1989, she already had the supple, slightly weathered voice, the guitar finesse and the amiable stage presence that turned clubgoers into fans. Sunny Came Home is a folk-rock song by American musician Shawn Colvin. After winning two top 1997 Grammy Awards for her song ''Sunny Came Home,'' about an unhappy wife with visions of arson, she is touring as a solo performer. Others improve as they go, and Shawn Colvin, who performed at Irving Plaza on Thursday night, is one of them. Some songwriters seem to emerge fully formed, with a gift for distilling stories and emotions into a few words and a shapely melody. Sunny came home to her favorite room Sunny sat down in the kitchen She opened her book and a box of tools Sunny came home with a mission She says days go by. ![]()
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