Cover Girl is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin, released in 1994 on Columbia Records. Colvin is a singer-songwriter who usually records her own material, however, as the title alludes to, all of the tracks on the album are covers of previously recorded songs.
Reception
Cover Girl received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
Track listing
Track No Song title Songwriter/composer(s) Length 1 "Every Little Thing (He) Does Is Magic" Sting 3:17 2 "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" [live] Tom Waits 3:36 3 "One Cool Remove" (feat. Mary Chapin Carpenter) Greg Brown 3:19 4 "Satin Sheets" [live] Willis Alan Ramsey 3:10 5 "There's a Rugged Road" Judee Sill 3:43 6 "Killing the Blues" [live] Roly Salley 3:47 7 "Window to the World" Tom Littlefield 5:15 8 "Someday" Steve Earle 4:09 9 "Twilight" [live] Robbie Robertson 2:56 10 "If These Walls Could Speak" Jimmy Webb 3:06 11 "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth. 4:01 12 "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" [live] Bob Dylan 4:1013 (hidden)"Ol' 55" [live]Tom Waits
Personnel Shawn Colvin – guitar, vocals Jim Keltner – drums Steve Addabbo – guitar Kenny Aronoff – drums, percussion Benmont Tench – Hammond organ Larry Campbell – fiddle, pedal steel Mary Chapin Carpenter – vocals Milt Grayson – background vocals David Kahne – bass, keyboards Curtis King – background vocals Larry Klein – bass Andy Kravitz – drums Steuart Smith – guitar, bass, mandolin, keyboards Fonzi Thornton – background vocals Frank Vilardi – drums, percussion Ken White – background vocals Leland Sklar – bass Frank Floyd – background vocals Tom "T-Bone" Wolk – bass, accordion
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