Fat City (album)
Fat City, Shawn Colvin's second full length album, was released in 1992 on Columbia Records.
The album reached 142 on the Billboard 200 and reached #2 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers.[4] "Round of Blues" and "I Don't Know Why" made Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and Adult Contemporary single charts, respectively.[5] "Tenderness on the Block" is a cover version of a song released on Warren Zevon's 1978 album Excitable Boy.
Track listing
- "Polaroids" (Shawn Colvin)
- "Tennessee" (Colvin, John Leventhal)
- "Tenderness on the Block" (Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon)
- "Round of Blues" (Colvin, Larry Klein)
- "Monopoly" (Colvin)
- "Orion in the Sky" (Colvin, Larry Klein)
- "Climb On (A Back That's Strong)" (Colvin, John Leventhal)
- "Set the Prairie on Fire" (Elly Brown, Colvin)
- "Object of My Affection" (Colvin, John Leventhal)
- "Kill the Messenger" (Colvin)
- "I Don't Know Why" (Colvin)
Personnel
- Shawn Colvin – guitar, vocals
- Bruce Hornsby – piano, background vocals
- David Lindley – Hawaiian guitar, bazouki, lap steel Guitar
- Joni Mitchell – percussion
- The Subdudes – vocals
- Richard Thompson – guitar
- Chris Whitley – National Steel guitar
- Tommy Malone – guitar, background vocals
- Valerie Carter – background vocals
- Jim Keltner – drums
- Alex Acuña – percussion
- Steve Amedee – drums, background vocals
- Robin Batteau – background vocals
- Larry Campbell – fiddle, pedal steel
- Mary Chapin Carpenter – background vocals
- Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
- Denny Fongheiser – drums
- Béla Fleck – banjo
- Milt Grayson – background vocals
- Richard Hayward – drum brushes
- Curtis King – background vocals
- Larry Klein – bass, percussion, guitar, keyboards, drum programming
- Greg Leisz – pedal steel
- John Leventhal – guitar, bass, percussion
- John Magnie – accordion, background vocals
- Bill Payne – organ
- Jeff Pevar – guitar
- Steuart Smith – guitar
- Fonzi Thornton – background vocals
- Ken White – keyboards, background vocals
- Vinnie Zummo – guitar
- Johnny Ray Allen – bass
- Booker T. Jones III – Hammond organ
Songwriting
In an interview with Performing Songwriter magazine, Colvin described how she co-wrote songs for Fat City:[6]
- The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music. Like on "Round of Blues" I wrote the whole song but Larry Klein said that it needed a bridge. So he wrote the bridge and I wrote the words to it. But Elly and I really shared every part of ["Set the Prairie on Fire"] equally. She wrote some of the words, I wrote some of the words, she wrote some of the music, I wrote some of the music.
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