Music Review

A Few Small Repairs (1996)

EW's GRADE
A

Details Lead Performance: Shawn Colvin; Genre: Folk

Shawn Colvin's first new album in four years — A Few Small Repairs, a song cycle about her own failed marriage — could have been a sobfest. Instead, it's a declaration of independence, from the austere resignation of ''Wichita Skyline'' to the acidic jeering of ''Get Out of This House.'' Full of wisdom and ravishing melodies, Repairs is a tour de force that needs no fixing. A

Originally posted Oct 25, 1996 Published in issue #350 Oct 25, 1996 Order article reprints

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