“I think Lilith Fair fans have been waiting for some new music to come out from the Sarah McLachlans, Sheryl Crows, and Shawn Colvins. The five-track collection sells for $4.99 and includes alternate versions of “Sunny Came Home,” “Diamond in the Rough,” and “Round of Blues.” In addition, a special version of “Whole New You” with the bonus track “Fall of Rome” will be available exclusively at Borders.Ĭolvin is “a strong artist for Borders - I think this will be a good record for us,” says Len Cosimano, the chain’s VP of merchandising.
To help market the new album, Columbia has a deal with the Borders Books & Music chain to offer an exclusive retrospective disc in Borders stores. If ever I have felt transformed by an event, this is it, for better or worse.” “There aren’t a lot of songs on the album as redemptive as ‘Whole New You,’ but it resonated a lot with me because of becoming a parent,” Colvin says. The notable exception is the title track, a jangly, unsparingly upbeat, empowering tune about not being ashamed to be happy and want the best for yourself. The album is “strange because of the degree to which it’s sobering and even depressing,” says Colvin, whose songs are published by WB Music Corp. “There’s a generalization that if you’re going to have kids and it’s going to be part of your subject matter, you’ve lost your edge, majorly.”ĭespite her concerns, “Whole New You” does display an edgier, more contemplative side to Colvin. “We’re rock’n’roll children, and we fell in love with the Beatles or whoever, and these are not role models who were parents - or we didn’t know about it,” Colvin says. Many of the songs indeed revolve around parenthood (including “Matter of Minutes,” “Bound to You,” and “I’d Say I’m Sorry Now”), but not one is so mommy-centric that only parents will be able to relate. Every now and then, I’d come up with a good idea, but I never had any confidence some songs were just beastly.”ĭifficult or not, Colvin’s process yielded a stellar song set that marks the changes that have occurred in her life, as well as touches upon outside events over the past few years (“Another Plane Went Down” is a stream-of-consciousness song based on the crash of TWA 800). “I just gave up thinking it would be easy,” she says. So Colvin stopped waiting for lightning to strike. I felt incredibly deep things, profound things, but they weren’t translating.”
My whole heart and soul was in my daughter and my family, and I had nothing to say. “It was like every creative part of me was being used to be a mom. “There was no poetry in me,” Colvin continues. She says, “They say having kids is the greatest thing, and it is, but people who say that aren’t telling you the whole story. What was coming out wasn’t necessarily the usual sunshine and rainbows that often come forth from an artist after the birth of a first child - simply because every bit of Colvin’s energy was going into parenting. “I knew I was never going to be ready - maybe in 10 years - but I just knew it wasn’t going to be comfortable and wanted to tap into whatever was coming out.” “The label never said anything,” Colvin explains. There was no clarion call for Colvin that it was time for her and producer/co-writer John Leventhal to go back into the studio as the months passed - she just knew it was time. She made “Holiday Songs & Lullabies” (an album inspired by Maurice Sendak’s “Lullabies & Night Songs”) following the birth of her daughter in 1998, but when it came time to write an album drawing upon herself for inspiration, she hit a wall. Making “Whole New You” was a whole other experience, according to Colvin.
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I thought I’d cracked a code of some sort in making a record.” The lyrics, the music, the recording - they happened easily. “It was also because was a particularly charmed experience,” Colvin says. It wasn’t just the ghost of Grammys past that was haunting Colvin - “Sunny Came Home” from 1996’s “A Few Small Repairs” captured both record of the year and song of the year honors at the 1998 Grammy Awards - it was something much less tangible. “I kept thinking we would turn a corner, but it was worse than giving birth.” “Whole New You,” due March 27 from Columbia, was “difficult from start to finish,” says Colvin with a rueful laugh.
Although it’s hardly the tactic one might suggest, Shawn Colvin says approaching her new album with “complete terror” ultimately worked for her.
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