AP - Jun 25, 2008
Shawn Colvin, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, is working on a memoir, A Few Small Repairs, named for her best-known album and tentatively scheduled to come out in the fall 2009. According...
More »Reuters - Jun 10, 2007
Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris will take to the seas together to headline the inaugural Cayamo music cruise, which will set sail February 4 through February 10. With other musical performers including...
More »Reuters - Feb 9, 2007
The Grammy Awards are the music industry s biggest bash, but the event long ago lost the TV popularity race to American Idol. Last year, the two shows went head-to-head on a Wednesday, with Idol pulling...
More »AP - Oct 11, 2006
There are a few things Shawn Colvin fans can expect every time she comes forth with new music. One is smart, literate folk-pop of the type she s been making since her 1989 debut. Another is an intriguing...
More »Reuters - Jul 5, 2006
Shawn Colvin will ring in the second half of her life with the album These Four Walls, along with a new manager and label. It s a major confrontation, knowing that you have to grow up, the 50-year...
More »AP - Apr 13, 2006
It would be a mistake to peg banjo master Bela Fleck as a bluegrass musician or a jazz musician, rock musician, blues musician or classical musician, for that matter. Since their 1990 debut,...
More »E! Online - Nov 14, 2004
Wild-man hip-hopster and Wu-Tang Clan cofounder ODB, whose sprawling rap sheet long overshadowed his groundbreaking rap credits, died Saturday after collapsing in a New York recording studio. He would...
More »AP - Nov 13, 2004
The rap artist O.D.B., who lived a life as wild as his lyrics, collapsed and died inside a recording studio Saturday, his record label said. He was 35. O.D.B. had complained of chest pains before collapsing...
More »Reuters - Oct 27, 2004
A newly recorded cover of the Beatles I ll Be Back graces a hits package from Grammy-winning singer Shawn Colvin due in stores Nov. 23. Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection (Columbia) will also arrive...
More »Reuters - Aug 8, 2004
Dualtone Music Group s The Unbroken Circle -- The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family continues the label s relationship with the surviving Carter kin and furthers its move into historically themed...
More »Reuters - May 19, 2004
In an unlikely double-bill, hard rock band Metallica and folk singer/songwriter Jackson Browne were honored at performing rights groups ASCAP s annual Pop Music Awards on Tuesday, while R&B veteran...
More »Reuters - Mar 19, 2004
Kate Markowitz has done hundreds of shows in New York, singing backup for the likes of Shawn Colvin and, for 13 years, James Taylor . Still, she was admittedly uptight at her first show as a solo performer...
More »Reuters - Feb 26, 2004
Eight years after the release of her critically acclaimed Atlantic debut, Dreamland, jazz singer/songwriter Madeleine Peyroux has teamed with Rounder Records for her second release. Drawing comparisons...
More »USRN - Nov 19, 1998
(11/18/98, 12 p.m. PST) - Looking for a way to jazz up the upcoming round of holiday parties? Christmas has forever been an excuse for artists to release seasonal records, and this year is shaping up...
More »USRN - Aug 26, 1998
(8/25/98, 6 p.m. PDT) - New mother and recent Grammy queen Shawn Colvin was getting into the spirit of motherhood and the holidays in June, even before she became a mother in July with the birth of her...
More »USRN - Jun 5, 1998
(6/5/98) - Singer-songwriter David Crosby is jumping into the movie business with Stand And Be Counted, a documentary about the role of popular music in social activism and political movements. Stand...
More »USRN - May 6, 1998
(5/6/98) - A very pregnant Shawn Colvin, in Nashville to play the city s first RiverStages festival, joked that every other thought going through my mind right now is, epidural. Colvin announced the...
More »USRN - Mar 6, 1998
(3/6/98) - One of the axioms of the music business--that winning a Grammy will lead to increased sales--has arrived on schedule, one week after the awards show. Bob Dylan, Shawn Colvin and Paula Cole...
More »USRN - Feb 27, 1998
(2/27/98) - The results of the myLAUNCH Guess The Grammys contest are in! The envelope, please.... And the lucky winner of $2000 worth of free CDs from myLAUNCH is the member known as MKassan! Congratulations...
More »USRN - Feb 26, 1998
(2/26/98) - The big Grammy winners last night were Shawn Colvin, who in a bit of a surprise swept the Song Of The Year and Record Of The Year categories, and Bob Dylan, who claimed trophies for Album...
More »USRN - Feb 18, 1998
(2/18/98) - Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Erykah Badu, the Blues Brothers, Paula Cole, Shawn Colvin, Wyclef Jean, Aretha Franklin, R. Kelly, Sarah McLachlan and Will Smith have been added as live performers...
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