| Cover Girl | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | August 23, 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1993–94 | |||
| Venue | The Bitter End | |||
| Studio | Sony Music | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Shawn Colvin, David Kahne, Steuart Smith | |||
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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.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Chicago Tribune | |
| Entertainment Weekly | C+ [3] |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| Music Week | |
| NME | 3/10 [6] |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Vox | 8/10 [9] |
Cover Girl received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album. [10]
| Track No | Song title | Songwriter/composer(s) | Length |
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| 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 Littlefield | 5:15 |
| 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 |