This is Shawn at her best emotionally and vocally. And Larry Klein and Steuart Smith as your band is just mind blowing as key contributors to her early works. It's great that such a high-quality recording was captured for all to see.
the transition into a snipped of Wichita Lineman and then the perfect bridge back into Wichita Skyline is so fucking brilliant. it gives me goosebumps on my heart.
That is Steuart Smith...phenomenal guitarist and brilliant in this performance. He and Larry Klein frame Shawn's vocals perfectly here. One of my favorite songs by her.
I've always liked this song because it's so atmospheric. A daydream on a warm summer afternoon that's exactly three minutes and twenty-seven seconds long, to be more precise. :)
Jimmy Webb is a god of lyrics, not to mention his sense of melody. This is my first exposure to Shawn, too, and now I'm an instant newcolvinfan. Thanks newcolvinfan!
Brilliant lyrics and arrangement. Ms. Colvin is a consummate songwriter and performer. This is a song where you can feel exactly how it came about. And more importantly, it's like turning a grey and uneventful afternoon in a place she clearly didn't want to be into a display of the Northern Lights! Also enjoyed the brief interwoven homage to Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman.
She is just brilliant! I saw her last Friday. Just her and her guitar and she pulls it off seamlessly. I bought a copy of her book and am ripping through it pretty fast. What an interesting person she is. She has paid her dues for sure and I think she is abysmally underrated. I can relate to her so much, on so many levels.
Saw her perform around this time at Ravinia accompanied by Larry Klein and Steuart Smith. Brilliant! Then again with Jon Leventhal on guitar. Wish those entire concerts were available on video.
I came here for Shawn and this song that I already love, but I'm also taken by that gorgeous backdrop. It reminds me of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I'd have loved to be at one of these Lillith Shows.
I went to the first ones and they were amazing....and poorly designed. The venue we were at couldnt get you in fast enough so most everyone missed the acts on the side stages, then was packed so tight you couldnt get to other stages, our side of the speakers were off, it was 105degrees, with the sunset beside the main stage so you couldnt see....and every performance on the main stage was perfect. Maybe the other tours were less kinked. At the time it was miserable and disappointing but the acts were, as it should be, what made it worth it. Also no shawn. She was an eastern half act. I had sinead and natalie and k's choice.
Among many of Shawn's poetic masterpieces, this is one of the best. The tribute in both the guitar work and (for those who didn't catch the musical reference, even a line or two) to Glenn Campbells "Wichita Lineman", you just can't do it much better that this...an extraordinary and gifted artist.
I have been a fan for years and years. Being from Kansas, I was ridiculously happy to hear her pronounce "Salina" like a Kansan on this video. On the CD she says "Sa Leen a."
What a beautiful, inspired version of one of my favorites.That big fender sound is as relaxed and meandering as a lazy southern river, and the little Glen Campbell seg at 2:12 just caps it.
To have been around and of the right age to attend this festival!! Where else would you get Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, Dixie Chicks, Bonnie Raitt, Sarah Mac Lauchlan, Sheryl Crow...ahh all my idols! And this is a great performance!
I love this era of music! Women were making statements and expressing deep emotion,some great solid song craft was born in this generation of women performers. They didn't have to sell themselves like these poor little pop stars of today, pushing their sexuality because some producer convinced them that parading around selling themselves is what it takes to make music! Hey face it we're all sexual,we exist because of sex,so why is it that these little pop stars think they were born with something special that all the rest of the human race don't have!? It was great hearing women with ideas that transcended their sexuality and brought us true human feelings and emotion! I get sick of this over sensualized BS that's handed to us in the form of true freedom,anybody with brains in their head knows sex is just a small part of life and if they don't then I feel really bad for them.
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I love this comment more than I can express-thank you!
Steuart Smith is one of my favorite guitarists. Understated usually, and tasteful. Perhaps a consummate supporting electric guitarist, and that's a rare thing. Nice to see Larry Klein performing as well. I think he could have done some amazing things here with his fretless Stingray bass, however...
Way back, I saw the Shawn Colvin "Session at West 54th" concert on TV...usually, I would've switched channels because I'm more into hard rock, but her guitarist (Steuart) kept my attention with some of the best guitar playing I've ever heard. Specifically, he was using the tremolo bar on his Stratocaster better than I've ever heard anyone use it...seriously, 99% of guitarists should never even touch a tremolo bar because they use it improperly, way too much, and too forcefully.
I've come around on "Tremolo bar". There is an art to using it, and there is more than one way to use it. It is another way to add expression as a player. Some of that expression I may not be particularly fond of, and occasionally it's gimmicky without much substance (the legions of unartful Eddie Van Halen knockoffs...). But there is a wide variety of expression using such a seemingly simply tool from players such as Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Terje Rypdal, Chet Atkins, Neil Young, Nokie Edwards, Brian Setzer, etc, etc, etc... My main problem with Tremolo/Whammy is the knee-jerk, "when in doubt, just whammy it" as a reflexive thing in substitution of thought or expression. The same applies to double-bass drum pedal on a drum set.
She's great. I feel the same way about James Taylor. Dave Mathews, Susan Tudeschi, Pink Floyd, Journey and every band I listen to. I can't bring down to just one.
August 22, 2017 @ 1250pm - Dear Shawn Colvin, As you prepare for your brilliant tour to celebrate 'A Few Small Repairs', I want you to know that I'm 'here' with you in spirit. I dug up a poem I wrote for you in 2008. I hope you like it. I love you and only you forever. Peace If I Were The Wind If I were the wind I would stand so still like a butterfly pinned against straining will I would wait I would hum softly but never stir fate or ruffle the lofty dreams of my angel guide I would be so patient while she planned the ride to forever’s folded tent I would whisper so low as if I’d never sinned still I wouldn’t blow until you gathered me in My love never could you say that I was hard to catch or even hard to find for when you breathe I come in and attach to your lungs and your heart and I’ll sing through your mind we never were apart I know you breathed me in at the very start I am wind, you are fire that you breathe is my desire end God bless you Angel, go with the wind and set the world on fire again. I adore you. Peace
*Steuart* Smith on guitar, in case you can't find him with the normal spelling. Yeah, this is the shit! I remember a PBS TV special around the time Sonny Came Home LP came out and it had this lineup. It was all insanely good just like this video played in a small indoor live venue. I had never heard of Steuart Smith before but I sure recognized a monster guitarist from bar one. I can thank Shawn for getting me to open my ears to the more thoughtful and richer roots music that I had forgotten. If anyone has a link for that TV special, *please let me know*, even if it's a DVD for $60. I'm buying!
Ivor Thomas Please let me know if you find (found) it. I remember seeing this special on TV, and am hunting for it myself ever since. W/O any success, unfortunately. It was i-n-s-a-n-e-l-y good!
I love her, she is just amazing. I would love to know what the magnetic acoustic pickup she is using on her guitar, it's so natural sounding, anyone know?
i adore colvin - witchita lineman - full credit to its writer jimmy webb - glenn does an awesome job on the vocal. The songwriters are looked after financially when a song is a hit but they hide in the brackets while counting their money.
wowol i just heard shawns music today for i think the first time, after hearing I don't know why. So the last time i was at this little kareoke dive the dj requested i do this song, i told him i'd never heard it, and i did'nt know what he was talkin bout tell now -he was signing it to me-and it rang no bells-interesting though how later i come accross this and recognize. i guess he heard simuliar tones w/inR'voices-that happens but i don't think this song is 4meI think my mom wood lk ths CD4xmas
@Cathwitness: Like just about everything Shawn Colvin sings, and writes (or cowrites), "Wichita Skyline" is, indeed, beautiful. Colvin cowrote the song with a guy named John Leventhal. Like the very best of artists, Colvin and Leventhal pay "homage" to Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell with a familiar-sounding bridge in the middle, and a couple carefully chosen words. But it AIN'T the same song which Glen Campbell recorded a _completely_ different song entitled "Wichita Lineman", written by Jimmy Webb. The funny thing is, these days, given the capabilities of Google, just about anyone can figure that out. Two different songs, two different sounds, two different sets of lyrics. Both worth listening to -- and both worth NOT getting confused, one for the other.
Kill The Blues with an exclusive backstage interview with Shawn from 1999! ruclips.net/video/EQjyQQ8j1T0/видео.html What is your favorite Shawn Colvin song?
This is Shawn at her best emotionally and vocally. And Larry Klein and Steuart Smith as your band is just mind blowing as key contributors to her early works. It's great that such a high-quality recording was captured for all to see.
This live version is just pure, pure heaven!!!!
This is the only way to describe this performance. Way more meaningful and heavenly than the studio version, and it’s not even close.
I never grow tired of this song. It's brilliant lyrically, vocally and instrumentally. Perfect musical poetry.
the transition into a snipped of Wichita Lineman and then the perfect bridge back into Wichita Skyline is so fucking brilliant. it gives me goosebumps on my heart.
Where?! I dont here it. :(
@@miguelmarquez4192 2:12 to 2:25
I know, me too! The Jimmy Webb classic was pretty clearly an inspiration. Both songs are brilliant. So are both songwriters.
sorry, those 8 bars or so of W. Lineman bars are are not very subtle...and seem kind of corny. Nonetheless she and her band mates are super pros.
That is Steuart Smith...phenomenal guitarist and brilliant in this performance. He and Larry Klein frame Shawn's vocals perfectly here. One of my favorite songs by her.
I've always liked this song because it's so atmospheric. A daydream on a warm summer afternoon that's exactly three minutes and twenty-seven seconds long, to be more precise. :)
I've been a Shawn Colvin fan for a long time. This is one of my favorite songs by her, and a great performance too.
Amazing voice and music...can you believe it is LIVE? She is phenomenal!
What a great song, great acoustics and that bass - wow!
Hold my beer - that bass part needs transcribed!
Jimmy Webb is a god of lyrics, not to mention his sense of melody. This is my first exposure to Shawn, too, and now I'm an instant newcolvinfan. Thanks newcolvinfan!
She's an album artist... Polariods, Fat City, A Few Small Repairs and beyond.
Brilliant lyrics and arrangement. Ms. Colvin is a consummate songwriter and performer. This is a song where you can feel exactly how it came about. And more importantly, it's like turning a grey and uneventful afternoon in a place she clearly didn't want to be into a display of the Northern Lights! Also enjoyed the brief interwoven homage to Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman.
Heaven knows no glory higher than a woman well loved....and you are well loved Shawn Colvin....forever.
She is just brilliant! I saw her last Friday. Just her and her guitar and she pulls it off seamlessly. I bought a copy of her book and am ripping through it pretty fast. What an interesting person she is. She has paid her dues for sure and I think she is abysmally underrated. I can relate to her so much, on so many levels.
Americana at its finest.
Saw her perform around this time at Ravinia accompanied by Larry Klein and Steuart Smith. Brilliant! Then again with Jon Leventhal on guitar. Wish those entire concerts were available on video.
I came here for Shawn and this song that I already love, but I'm also taken by that gorgeous backdrop. It reminds me of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I'd have loved to be at one of these Lillith Shows.
I went to the first ones and they were amazing....and poorly designed. The venue we were at couldnt get you in fast enough so most everyone missed the acts on the side stages, then was packed so tight you couldnt get to other stages, our side of the speakers were off, it was 105degrees, with the sunset beside the main stage so you couldnt see....and every performance on the main stage was perfect. Maybe the other tours were less kinked. At the time it was miserable and disappointing but the acts were, as it should be, what made it worth it. Also no shawn. She was an eastern half act. I had sinead and natalie and k's choice.
For decades I've lived with the original, and then I heard this version and I miss the added bit. Wow.
Shawn Colvin, one of my absolute fave artists!!!
I saw her- front row- tat the Birchmere, a small coffee house type venue in Alexandria. She is an amazing and compelling performer.
Among many of Shawn's poetic masterpieces, this is one of the best. The tribute in both the guitar work and (for those who didn't catch the musical reference, even a line or two) to Glenn Campbells "Wichita Lineman", you just can't do it much better that this...an extraordinary and gifted artist.
1997???? My gosh, it seems like I just bought this record. where does time go?
One of my faves from her.
amazing voice and playin, love the colvin style
One of the BEST versions of one of the BEST songs ever. There's nothing comparible... Thanks, Shawn....
My favorite Shawn Colvin song. This is prolly my favorite video on RUclips. Feels like you're there if you crank it loud. God bless her.
The guitarlist has such a clean tone. No wonder he was hired as a new Eagles' member.
One of the best songs ever written.... great live version!!
What a great song and performance! I love Shawn's music
I've loved KISS's music, Queen's music, and many others ... but Shawn's music is only music I believe I'll love forever.
An absolute classic.
I have been a fan for years and years. Being from Kansas, I was ridiculously happy to hear her pronounce "Salina" like a Kansan on this video. On the CD she says "Sa Leen a."
She is in my fav list since ever...Here with Steuart Smith and Larry Klein.
Have seen this a hundred times. Will be back later... .
Best performance....
Favorite version of my favorite song by one of my favorite artists....just takes me away
Ok me of my favorites. Thanks for sharing :)
son solo tres musicos y logran conmoverte tanto! grandioso
It's awesome and breathtaking....How lucky I discover this when searching for stuff about Steuart Smith..thanks so much for posting
I KNEW she had Wichita Lineman in mind as she sang this!!!!
That voice! I love that voice! Awesome, just awesome
WENT BACK AND FORTH WITH HER ALBUM VERSION AND THIS LITLITH FAIR ONE. THIS ONE IS WAY BETTER
Beautiful Shawn! The voice of an angel...
What a song!
What a great setting and good-looking video. Great song, great musicians, great singer/songwriter.
Beautiful rendition. I'm so glad to hear her pronounce Salina correctly!
beautiful inspirational tune...thanks
One of my favorites....love this
What a beautiful, inspired version of one of my favorites.That big fender sound is as relaxed and meandering as a lazy southern river, and the little Glen Campbell seg at 2:12 just caps it.
Pretty amazing! Three very talented individuals.
What a voice. What a song.
nice collection. thanks for sharing
Wonderful
Just as good as the other a hundred and eleven times I've watched it . . : >
I saw her in Montana...or it might be just a dream. Regardless, I loved it......
Where in Montana? I live in Red Lodge.
To have been around and of the right age to attend this festival!! Where else would you get Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, Dixie Chicks, Bonnie Raitt, Sarah Mac Lauchlan, Sheryl Crow...ahh all my idols! And this is a great performance!
Im so going to learn this tune.
What a really well written tune.
Who's still here in 1998?
the intro of the song already made me like this vid
Absolutely perfect!
...love Shawn Colvin...
Love both songs, specially Glen Campbell's version. btw the context and collection of artists at this concert was what made this great.
I love this era of music! Women were making statements and expressing deep emotion,some great solid song craft was born in this generation of women performers. They didn't have to sell themselves like these poor little pop stars of today, pushing their sexuality because some producer convinced them that parading around selling themselves is what it takes to make music! Hey face it we're all sexual,we exist because of sex,so why is it that these little pop stars think they were born with something special that all the rest of the human race don't have!? It was great hearing women with ideas that transcended their sexuality and brought us true human feelings and emotion! I get sick of this over sensualized BS that's handed to us in the form of true freedom,anybody with brains in their head knows sex is just a small part of life and if they don't then I feel really bad for them.
I love this comment more than I can express-thank you!
Just perfect.
Beautiful. Being from Wichita, I know exactly what she's referring to, especially in that last verse...
Amazing! Glenn is smiling...
wonderful music
this is my music
the pirate
Steuart Smith is one of my favorite guitarists. Understated usually, and tasteful. Perhaps a consummate supporting electric guitarist, and that's a rare thing. Nice to see Larry Klein performing as well. I think he could have done some amazing things here with his fretless Stingray bass, however...
Way back, I saw the Shawn Colvin "Session at West 54th" concert on TV...usually, I would've switched channels because I'm more into hard rock, but her guitarist (Steuart) kept my attention with some of the best guitar playing I've ever heard. Specifically, he was using the tremolo bar on his Stratocaster better than I've ever heard anyone use it...seriously, 99% of guitarists should never even touch a tremolo bar because they use it improperly, way too much, and too forcefully.
I've come around on "Tremolo bar". There is an art to using it, and there is more than one way to use it. It is another way to add expression as a player. Some of that expression I may not be particularly fond of, and occasionally it's gimmicky without much substance (the legions of unartful Eddie Van Halen knockoffs...). But there is a wide variety of expression using such a seemingly simply tool from players such as Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Terje Rypdal, Chet Atkins, Neil Young, Nokie Edwards, Brian Setzer, etc, etc, etc... My main problem with Tremolo/Whammy is the knee-jerk, "when in doubt, just whammy it" as a reflexive thing in substitution of thought or expression. The same applies to double-bass drum pedal on a drum set.
Is he playing a Baritone guitar on this tune? Sound sweet with the slide.
Brilliant!
😭😭😭😭😭💔
She's great. I feel the same way about James Taylor. Dave Mathews, Susan Tudeschi, Pink Floyd, Journey and every band I listen to. I can't bring down to just one.
This looks like Dallas and i was there . her little girl was there
AWESOME!
love it
Very nice! 5*
Thank you for sharing:)
Bless that woman.
at last "a few small repairs" will be on LP.. cant wait
I just realized I saw this show..and Shawn Colvin was the only one...along with Sarah McLaughlin..who most impressed me...
Shawn is a bad*ss for sure....
August 22, 2017 @ 1250pm - Dear Shawn Colvin, As you prepare for your brilliant tour to celebrate 'A Few Small Repairs', I want you to know that I'm 'here' with you in spirit. I dug up a poem I wrote for you in 2008. I hope you like it. I love you and only you forever. Peace
If I Were The Wind
If I were the wind
I would stand so still
like a butterfly pinned
against straining will
I would wait
I would hum softly
but never stir fate
or ruffle the lofty
dreams of my angel guide
I would be so patient
while she planned the ride
to forever’s folded tent
I would whisper so low
as if I’d never sinned
still I wouldn’t blow
until you gathered me in
My love
never could you say
that I was hard to catch
or even hard to find
for when you breathe
I come in and attach
to your lungs and your heart
and I’ll sing through your mind
we never were apart
I know you breathed me in
at the very start
I am wind, you are fire
that you breathe
is my desire
end
God bless you Angel, go with the wind and set the world on fire again. I adore you. Peace
*Steuart* Smith on guitar, in case you can't find him with the normal spelling. Yeah, this is the shit! I remember a PBS TV special around the time Sonny Came Home LP came out and it had this lineup. It was all insanely good just like this video played in a small indoor live venue. I had never heard of Steuart Smith before but I sure recognized a monster guitarist from bar one. I can thank Shawn for getting me to open my ears to the more thoughtful and richer roots music that I had forgotten. If anyone has a link for that TV special, *please let me know*, even if it's a DVD for $60. I'm buying!
Ivor Thomas Please let me know if you find (found) it. I remember seeing this special on TV, and am hunting for it myself ever since. W/O any success, unfortunately. It was i-n-s-a-n-e-l-y good!
And I need you more than want you.....
I love her, she is just amazing. I would love to know what the magnetic acoustic pickup she is using on her guitar, it's so natural sounding, anyone know?
That's THE Larry Klein on the bass? Yummy!
great
Such a crime that this artist never recieved the accolades due. A proper fucking musician
Love it but miss the train horn from the original album recording.
awesome fukin song
anyone know which specific radio staion from LaRue she is talking about???
I'm wondering why this isn't on the Lilith fair CD.. hmmm maybe a marketing stint to get fans to buy both the dvd and cd
A bit off topic: anyone know the exact guitar chords to "Get Out Of This House"? I know the basic chords but can't get the subtle bits. thanks.
just hoping there will be another lillith.. sarah, hope ur reading this m'amm
Where was this video taken? It looks like the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto
That vibrato guitar around 2:05 really gives the nod to Glen Campbell, doesn't it?
I road on the airstream, across the gray lonesome afternoon
Stuart laying it down
i adore colvin - witchita lineman - full credit to its writer jimmy webb - glenn does an awesome job on the vocal. The songwriters are looked after financially when a song is a hit but they hide in the brackets while counting their money.
shawn colvin is the shit and this version is really really good. I would love to see her with allison moorer. Man, that would be good.
I'd love to meet her.
wowol i just heard shawns music today for i think the first time, after hearing I don't know why. So the last time i was at this little kareoke dive the dj requested i do this song, i told him i'd never heard it, and i did'nt know what he was talkin bout tell now -he was signing it to me-and it rang no bells-interesting though how later i come accross this and recognize. i guess he heard simuliar tones w/inR'voices-that happens but i don't think this song is 4meI think my mom wood lk ths CD4xmas
@Cathwitness: Like just about everything Shawn Colvin sings, and writes (or cowrites), "Wichita Skyline" is, indeed, beautiful. Colvin cowrote the song with a guy named John Leventhal. Like the very best of artists, Colvin and Leventhal pay "homage" to Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell with a familiar-sounding bridge in the middle, and a couple carefully chosen words.
But it AIN'T the same song which Glen Campbell recorded a _completely_ different song entitled "Wichita Lineman", written by Jimmy Webb. The funny thing is, these days, given the capabilities of Google, just about anyone can figure that out.
Two different songs, two different sounds, two different sets of lyrics. Both worth listening to -- and both worth NOT getting confused, one for the other.
Is she on your time line. Did I send it. I do that song.
Kill The Blues with an exclusive backstage interview with Shawn from 1999! ruclips.net/video/EQjyQQ8j1T0/видео.html
What is your favorite Shawn Colvin song?
That's Stuart Smith on guitar,same guy that's with the Eagles.