STREAM ENCLOSED: For Review - Shawn Colvin's ALL FALL DOWN

Thu May 17 16:12:26 CDT 2012

Hi,

Hope you're wonderfully well.

Below is a link to a full album stream of SHAWN COLVIN's beautiful new release "ALL FALL DOWN". This is Shawn's first new material in six years.  The album was recorded in Nashville, TN with Buddy Miller as producer and features an array of wonderful guest talents, including Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Bill Frisell and Jakob Dylan.

LISTEN HERE:  http://soundcloud.com/nonesuchrecords/sets/shawn-colvin-all-fall-down/s-c02A0

In the 22 years since the release of her debut album, Colvin has won three Grammy awards, released nine albums, maintained a non-stop national and international touring schedule, had her songs featured in major motion pictures, written a memoir, and created a remarkable canon of work.

"ALL FALL DOWN" will be released on NONESUCH RECORDS on JUNE 5th. Album art is attached and more information on the album plus tour dates is below. On the same day as this release Shawn's striking and engrossing memoir "DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH" will be published by William Morrow/HarperCollins.

Please let me know if you would like a copy of this album on CD and/or a copy of the memoir!

Let my know any requirements for photos/ interviews/ review tickets etc.

Shawn Colvin On Tour:

5/04            Santa Fe, NM @ Lensic PAC*
5/06            Boulder, CO @            eTown*
5/10            Bellingham, WA @ Mt. Baker Theater*
5/11            Edmonds, WA @ Edmonds Center for the Arts*
5/12            Tacoma, WA @ Broadway Center*
5/19            Cherokee, TX @ Cherokee Music Festival
6/4            New York, NY @ City Winery
6/5            New York, NY @ Barnes & Noble Tribeca (book signing)
6/11            Los Angeles, CA @ Barnes & Noble at The Grove (book signing)
6/12            Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater
6/20            Rockland, ME @ Strand Theater
6/21            Somerville, MA @ Somerville Theatre
6/22            Ridgefield, CT @ Ridgefield Playhouse
6/29            Westhampton Beach, NY @ Westhampton Beach PAC
6/30            Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live
7/19            Alexandria, VA @ The Birchmere
7/20            Alexandria, VA @ The Birchmere
7/21            Orkney Springs, VA @ Shenandoah Music Festival
7/22            Woodinville, WA @ Chateau Ste. Michelle**
7/28            Goldendale, WA @ Maryhill Winery**
7/30            Minneapolis, MN @ Guthrie Theater
8/2            Kent, OH @ Kent Stage
8/10            Denver, CO @ Denver Botanic Gardens^

ALL FALL DOWN:
On June 5,, 2012, Nonesuch Records will release the new Shawn Colvin album All Fall Down. A collection of 11 songs, All Fall Down is Colvin’s eighth studio album and the first to be produced by her longtime friend and cohort Buddy Miller (Robert Plant, Solomon Burke). Recorded in Nashville, with a group of stellar musicians, All Fall Down features performances by Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Jakob Dylan, Bill Frisell, Viktor Krauss, Brian Blade, Stuart Duncan, and Julie Miller, among others.

All Fall Down follows the Grammy Award winner’s 2009 Nonesuch solo acoustic set, Shawn Colvin Live, and her acclaimed 2006 studio record, These Four Walls, about which the Washington Post said: “As with Colvin's earlier work, the songs are easy to love, with smooth surfaces to glide along if one merely wishes to skim the top. But the emotions fueling the lyrics are more complex and more mature than anything she's offered previously. The image of a middle-aged woman laid bare in These Four Walls isn't one for the industry. It's one for the ages.”
The new album was recorded in Miller’s home studio, and each song is deeply personal to Colvin, who describes All Fall Down as "an album about loss but also about redemption and resolution." The release of All Fall Down comes on the same date as William Morrow/HarperCollins publishes her memoir, Diamond In The Rough, which insightfully and candidly looks back over a rich lifetime of highs and lows. The wit, lyricism, and empathy found in the book are traits that have long characterized Colvin’s songwriting and her live performances.

Colvin wrote or co-wrote eight of the album’s 11 tracks. “Change Is On The Way” was co-written with Colvin’s Three Girls and Their Buddy (the touring group of Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin and Colvin) partner Patty Griffin, and “Seven Times The Charm” shares writing credits with Jakob Dylan and longtime Colvin collaborator John Leventhal, who also co-wrote “All Fall Down”, “Knowing What I Know Now,” and “The Neon Light of the Saints,” which was written specifically for HBO’s New Orleans drama Treme and will be featured in an upcoming episode. (Colvin was a guest star on the show last year.) Bill Frisell penned “Anne of the Thousand Days” with Colvin, and Viktor Krauss co-wrote “I Don’t Know You” with her.
All Fall Down track list in full:
1. All Fall Down                                    7. Change Is On the Way
2. American Jerusalem                        8. I Don’t Know You
3. Knowing What I Know Now                        9. Fall of Rome
4. Seven Times the Charm                        10. Up On That Hill
5. Anne of the Thousand Days            11. On My Own
6. The Neon Light of the Saints

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