I watched that Live From Abbey Road show and was reminded of one of my great songwriter loves, Shawn Colvin. Her music has gotten me through many a rough moment. I will never get tired of letting “Shotgun Down the Avalanche” watch over me. I’d actually forgotten what an influence she’s been on me for some reason – it really hasn’t been that long since I’ve listened ot her. I used to belt out the song “Get Out of This House” when I was going through a very tough time a few years back. Sometime later I wrote “Let Me Out of This House” and thought of her song and laughed at the funny similarity in the title. I’m still disappointed at how meek my version of that feeling is compared to hers, though of course mine must have been a very different situation. I do hope I’ll write some more ass-kicking songs one of these days….”go back to your mama/go back to high school/get out of this house.”
:)
She actually performed a pared down version of “Sunny Came Home” which was lovely. When she talked about how she came around to the singer-songwriter thing it seemed very much like my own wanderings through other types of music and then to the realization that my favorite thing to do is just be with my guitar…
The show was clearly a ’singer-songwriter’ one and you can see why that’s what I want to be – I adored it; Nerina Pallot came next (gorgeous. Why didn’t I really know about her?) and Ray Lamontagne who I must say I like more all the time. He’s so intense, which I very much appreciate. But the next show is, like, Natasha Bedingfield and Iron Maiden. Hmmm.
Anyway. I think I need to write some songs now. :)