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Sunny Came Home
  Shawn Colvin learned about energy early in a hard rock band, the interplay of acoustic instruments in an Austin western swing band, the selling of songs as an off-Broadway belter and the craft of spinning tales as a folk-edged singer/songwriter. She signed with Columbia in 1988, and by her fourth album, 1996's A Few Small Repairs, she had parlayed all her experience into one unique style. As for the incendiary nature of the song that won her a mantle full of awards, its author is quick to point out that "Sunny Came Home" is not about her divorce (in whose wake it was written), but disillusionment in general.

(S. Colvin/J. Leventhal); Produced by John Leventhal; Shawn Colvin, acoustic guitar, vocal; John Leventhal, guitar, mandolin, keyboards, percussion, one-finger violin; Michael Rhodes, bass; Shawn Pelton, drums; Kate Markowitz, harmony vocal; Rec. New York, Austin and Los Angeles, 1996. Columbia 38-78528; P 1997 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.