Cover Girl (Shawn Colvin album)

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Cover Girl
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 23, 1994
Recorded1993–94
Venue The Bitter End
Studio Sony Music Studios
Label Columbia
Producer Shawn Colvin, David Kahne, Steuart Smith
Shawn Colvin chronology
Fat City
(1992)
Cover Girl
(1994)
A Few Small Repairs
(1996)

Cover Girl is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin, released in 1994 on Columbia Records. Colvin is a singer-songwriter who usually records her own material, however, as the title alludes to, all of the tracks on the album are covers of previously recorded songs.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly C+ [3]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
NME 3/10 [5]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Vox 8/10 [8]

Cover Girl received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album. [9]

Track listing

Track NoSong titleSongwriter/composer(s)Length
1"Every Little Thing (He) Does Is Magic" Sting 3:17
2"(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" [live] Tom Waits 3:36
3"One Cool Remove" (feat. Mary Chapin Carpenter) Greg Brown 3:19
4"Satin Sheets" [live] Willis Alan Ramsey 3:10
5"There's a Rugged Road" Judee Sill 3:43
6"Killing the Blues" [live] Roly Salley 3:47
7"Window to the World"Tom Littlefield5:15
8"Someday" Steve Earle 4:09
9"Twilight" [live] Robbie Robertson 2:56
10"If These Walls Could Speak" Jimmy Webb 3:06
11"This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" David Byrne, Chris Frantz,
Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth.
4:01
12"You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" [live] Bob Dylan 4:10
13 (hidden)"Ol' 55" [live] Tom Waits

Personnel

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