SEABROOK: Was it your idea to cover the Bee Gee's song on this album? And we just consciously wanted to be a little simpler on this record, so hopefully it's a little more organic. This is the fourth record we've made together and the third one in a row. SEABROOK: You've been working with John Leventhal now. So that's a great thing to be able to say about your own record, or you're not, you know, cringing at some song or feeling like it - it just didn't live up to all the others. COLVIN: You know, the funny thing about this record is, I really can listen to it from top to bottom and be very happy. Is it one of your favorites on the album? Or.
SEABROOK: So you work with Patty Griffin, and these tight harmonies really make this song just stand out on the album. Oh bible in beat (unintelligible) reaching forever. COLVIN: (Singing) Oh where did you go Cinnamon Road? I want to feel better. SEABROOK: You get to play with Patty Griffin, who you say is one of your favorites. Patty Griffin to me is awesome, Rufus Wainwright, Teddy Thompson. I always panic when someone asks me that. It's kind of like - and it's sort of - it's a great amalgamation of - you know. SEABROOK: And at some point, I guess, you know, writing about music becomes dancing about architecture. Whatever you want to call it, you know, it's just - it's right out of their book. And we didn't make distinctions then, so those are the people that I learned from and that's what I do. Well, I just - I'm inclined to go back to - my biggest influence, I think, is probably Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor was very important to me, and a lot of the singer/songwriters of the '70s. COLVIN: I don't even - adult contemporary and modern folk. And I wonder where you see your music fitting.
SEABROOK: I was looking at some of the reviews of your past work and this album, and the official review on iTunes is really interesting because it talks about how you skate this line between adult contemporary and modern folk. But somehow what I write just always has a little struggle in it. I love a simple feel-good pop song there's nothing wrong with it. I mean not in a simple way, they never are. COLVIN: None of my songs are happy songs. SEABROOK: It's such a beautiful image, but the song is not - it's not necessarily a happy one, is it? As I put on my finest summer dress, so light and thin, torn at the chest. And so goodbye Miriam and as you turn to watch me don't cry Miriam. We've been sleeping girl all our lives and we never lived, we just survived. 'Cause I'm gonna go where the lights are bright and the sacred secrets sail like kites. I said goodbye Miriam and as you turned to watch me don't cry Miriam and don't try to stop me. The men in hats, the boys on bikes, the perfect girls and baby dikes and the superstars, the blighted ones I went out to face them one by one. COLVIN: (Singing) I put on my finest summer dress. For some reason it all came together, you know, at this point in time and it was a beautiful summer day and I was wearing a very light cotton dress and I just started writing these lines down. And I was there waiting to go on and they had me in this beautiful green house as my, you know, dressing room. COLVIN: Now, that is actually somewhat dramatic, really, because I remember very vividly that I was going to play a gig in the summer of 2004 at the Salt Lake City Botanical Gardens. SEABROOK: Tell me about that moment that you started to write Summer Dress. Depression isn't that uncommon, and I've been dealing with that for a long, long time. I mean if you survive them, you know, and I think it's - it's just life. Is there an upside to these sort of dark, dark passages? SEABROOK: You've been through so many things in the last, you know, few years - the depression, divorce, all of these things. Although I have to admit after every record I kind of give it a rest for a while. How did you start again? Three years is a long time. Before we ask you to play your guitar, though, I want to know what happened. SEABROOK: It's so great to have you in studio, and you have a beautiful guitar on your lap. Colvin is on tour with her new album, These Four Walls, and she joins us in Studio 3A here with her guitar. But what brought her back from a creative dry spell? Ms. She's quit drinking, ended a marriage, and tackled depression.
#Who sings sunny came home plus#
She's quit a lot of things over her career of 25 plus years. SHAWN COLVIN (Singer/songwriter): (Singing) Sunny came home to her favorite room. Singer/songwriter Shawn Colvin is best known for her 1998 Grammy Award winning hit, Sunny Came Home.
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