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This 20th anniversary edition of Shawn Colvins A Few Small Repairs, is a newly remastered & expanded edition, featuring the 12 track original album (remastered), plus 7, rare & unreleased, bonus songs.
A Few Small Repairs is Shawn Colvins fourth album. It was released on October 1, 1996. A Few Small Repairs is a concept album about divorce, as Shawn Colvins marriage was ending. At the time of the albums release, she had relocated to Austin, Texas. The biggest single off the album was Sunny Came Home, which was released in 1997. The cover of this album is a painting by Colvins friend Julie Speed of a three-eyed woman with a lit match which inspired the song. The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 7, and topped the Adult Contemporary, Adult Top 40, and Top 40 Adult Recurrents charts the same year. Another notable song off the album was Nothin on Me, which peaked at number 24 on Billboards Adult Top 40 chart. The song was also used on Suddenly Susan as its theme song from 1997 to 2000.
Grammy success came to Colvin two years after the release of A Few Small Repairs. In the 1997 Grammy Awards, she was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance award for Get Out of This House and Best Pop Album for A Few Small Repairs. At the next years Grammy Awards, Colvin was nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year for Sunny Came Home. She won both awards (sharing Song of the Year with Leventhal). Overall, A Few Small Repairs made it to number 39 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.
Born in Vermilion, South Dakota and raised in part in Illinois and Ontario, Shawn Colvin was already a well-traveled and seasoned performer by the time she won her first Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album with her debut Steady On in 1989. In the decades since, Colvin has released a string of superlative albums and established an enduring reputation as one of Americas great live performers. Her lasting appeal is due in part to her willingness to lay herself bare coupled with a dry wit.
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