It comes from outside my own experience more than it used to. These days it’s more coming in the side door, I’ll say. There’s a cliche that you have your whole life to write your first record and then not as long to write the rest of them. In the old days, it was a lot of self-discovery and telling my story from my upbringing. It was a good thing, but it was foreign to me.ĪH: What do you find inspires you to write? Perhaps aside from the music aspect, promoting the record was not something I was used to. I was like, “This is icing on the cake.” If there was a challenge at all, it was just to keep writing songs and thinking they were passable or good. When I went on to write more songs and make a second record, I was beyond thrilled. If I never do another thing, my dream came true. I felt like with Steady On, this was my dream come true. But I didn’t want to be a recording artist that way.ĪH: What was the biggest challenge for you after winning a Grammy? I could sing, play, and cover songs well. Some people just spring out of the wild writing songs, but not me. They don’t feel out of date to me when I play them.ĪH: What do you think would have been the case if you had been say 22, not 32, when you won the Grammy? The songs are satisfying to sing and play. I didn’t think anything would happen with it, but I was proud of everything.
I was pretty confident going into that record. I kind of knew it when I found my voice for that – my voice in writing. I always held out to become a songwriter because I wasn’t for a long time. I’ve been making my living as a musician since I was 19, give or take a moment here or there.
I was 32 years old when I made it, which is ancient these days. I thought it might be a format people would enjoy.ĪH: How do you think Steady On holds up after 30 years? That’s the way I’ve performed them for the largest part of the last 30 years. I thought that would be a cool idea to all the songs with just me and a guitar. It was kind of inspired by Rodney Crowell’s Acoustic Classics. Shawn Colvin: It seemed like it deserved a celebratory moment of sorts.
By phone she discussed the 30 th anniversary acoustic version of Steady On, her inspiration to write, and the artists that influenced her in her early days of performing.Īmericana Highways: What was the impetus for the 30 th anniversary acoustic edition of Steady On? In her career she has won three Grammy Awards (one of which was for her debut album Steady On) and released 12 albums. Shawn Colvin may be best known for “Sunny Came Home”, but you can’t call her a one-hit wonder.
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