I wound up with Shawn Covin, Live 88, recorded in Somerville, MA.

This is a CD made from a sell-at-the-gigs recording. My history with this is that a friend made a copy of a tape for me in February 89. He bought the tape when Shawn Colvin played a gig at the Press Room (Portsmouth, NH) sometime. It was before she went more 'poppy' and became more widely known. It's just her, her guitar, and a live audience and I like it so much better than the slick productions that she's done since. (I like those too, just not as much as this first low-tech recording.)

What's funny is that I heard this song on WUMB a couple of days ago and wondered where my CD was. I forgot to look for it, but I remember thinking I was sure I wouldn't be able to find it.

She changed some of the words to the song that's probably my favorite song, "Cry Like Like an Angel". Some of the changes give me a very different feeling.

These are what she sings on this recording:

Cry Like and Angel
©S. Colvin - J. Leventhal

The streets of my town
Are not what they were
They are haloed in anger, bitter and hurt
And it's not so you'd notice
But it's a sinister thing
Like the wheels of ambition turning at a (at the) christening

So I went out walking on the
streets of the dead
With a chip on my shoulder
And a voice in my head
It said you have been brought here
Though you don't know what for
Well the mystery train is coming
right to your door

I hear you calling, you
don't have to call so loud
I see you falling and you don't
have to walk so proud
You can run all night
We can take you where
You can cry like an angel

There were high school night dances
When we played stump the band
We were raising each other
In a strange land
There were hard pills to swallow
But we drank 'em all down
The nights were too short then
And now they're a little too long

I hear you calling and
you don't have to call so loud
I see you falling
And you don't have to walk so proud
You can run all night
But we can take you where
You can shout out in anger
You can laugh like a fool
You can cry like an angel

So look homeward baby
Keep your eyes on the sky
They will never forgive you
So don't ask them to try
This is my party,
Though it's not my ideal
May we all find salvation
In professions that heal

I hear you calling,
You don't have to call so loud
I see you falling
And you don't have to walk so proud
You can run all night
We can take you where
You can shout out in anger
You can laugh like a fool
You can call up to heaven
We'll be listening to you
You can sing hallelujah
You can fly like a bird
You can cry like angel
When there are no words

Anyway, WAY too much information...