Fat City (Shawn Colvin Album)

''Fat City'' is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin. It was released on October 27, 1992, on Columbia Records.

''Fat City'' peaked at number 142 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and at number 2 on ''Billboard''s Top Heatseekers chart. "Round of Blues" and "I Don't Know Why" charted on ''Billboard''s Modern Rock Tracks and Adult Contemporary single charts, respectively. "Tenderness on the Block" is a cover version of a song released on Warren Zevon's 1978 album ''Excitable Boy''. Opening track "Polaroids" provided the title of her greatest hits album '' Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection'', which was released in 2004.

Songwriting

In an interview with ''Performing Songwriter'' magazine, Colvin described how she co-wrote songs for ''Fat City'':Born to be Telling her Story
from ''Performing Songwriter'' magazine via taxi.com, an A&R company
:The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music. Like on "Round of Blues" I wrote the whole song but Larry Klein said that it needed a bridge. So he wrote the bridge and I wrote the words to it. But Elly and I really shared every part of Set the Prairie on Fire"equally. She wrote some of the words, I wrote some of the words, she wrote some of the music, I wrote some of the music.

Track listing

Personnel

*Shawn Colvin – guitar, vocals
*Bruce Hornsby – piano, background vocals
* David Lindley – Hawaiian guitar, bazouki, lap steel Guitar
* Joni Mitchell – percussion
*The Subdudes – vocals
* Richard Thompson – guitar
*Chris Whitley – National Steel guitar (8)
* Tommy Malone – guitar, background vocals
*Valerie Carter – background vocals
*Jim Keltner – drums
*Alex Acuña – percussion
*Steve Amedee – drums, background vocals
* Robin Batteau – background vocals
*Larry Campbell – fiddle, pedal steel
*Mary Chapin Carpenter – background vocals
*Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
*Denny Fongheiser – drums
*Béla Fleck – banjo
*Milt Grayson – background vocals
*Richie Hayward – drum brushes
*Curtis King – background vocals
*Larry Klein – bass, percussion, guitar, keyboards, drum programming
*Greg Leisz – pedal steel
*John Leventhal – guitar, bass, percussion
*John Magnie – accordion, background vocals
* Bill Payne – organ
*Jeff Pevar – guitar
*Steuart Smith – guitar
*Fonzi Thornton – background vocals
*Ken White – keyboards, background vocals
*Vinnie Zummo – guitar
*Johnny Ray Allen – bass
*Booker T. Jones – Hammond organ

References

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Shawn Colvin albums
Albums produced by David Kahne
Albums produced by Larry Klein
Albums produced by John Leventhal
Columbia Records albums
1992 albums