Fat City (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Fat City
Type = Album
Artist = Shawn Colvin


Released = 1992
Label = Columbia
Producer = Shawn Colvin, Larry Klein, David Kahne, John Leventhal
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jcfexqu5ldde link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/shawncolvin/albums/album/152085/review/5942130/fat_city link]
Last album = "Steady On" (1989)
This album = "Fat City" (1992)
Next album = "Cover Girl"
(1994)

"Fat City", Shawn Colvin's second full length album, was released in 1992 on Columbia Records.

The album made the Billboard 200 and reached #2 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers. [ [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jcfexqu5ldde~T30 Billboard album milestones] from Allmusic] "Round of Blues" and "I Don't Know Why" made Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and Adult Contemporary single charts, respectively. [ [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jcfexqu5ldde~T31 Billboard singles milestones] from Allmusic]

Track listing

All songs written by Colvin except where indicated.
#Polaroids
#Tennessee (Shawn Colvin/John Leventhal)
#Tenderness on the Block (Jackson Browne/Warren Zevon)
#Round of Blues (Shawn Colvin/Larry Klein)
#Monopoly
#Orion in the Sky (Colvin/Klein)
#Climb On (A Back That's Strong) (Colvin/Leventhal)
#Set the Prairie on Fire (Elly Brown/Shawn Colvin)
#Object of My Affection (Colvin/Leventhal)
#Kill the Messenger
#I Don't Know Why

"Tenderness on the Block" is a cover version of a song released on Warren Zevon's 1978 album "Excitable Boy".

ongwriting

In an interview with "Performing Songwriter" magazine, Colvin described how she co-wrote songs for "Fat City": [ [http://www.taxi.com/faq/ar/colvin.html 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.

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