Sat 9/13 @ 8PM
Folksinger Shawn Colvin and country rocker Steve Earle, who are currently touring together, are both veterans of the Americana scene, neither quite fitting neatly into the slot assigned to them.
Colvin launched her serious, professional career in New York City in the ’80s, making a series of well-regarded albums before she exploded on to the charts with her 1997 hit “Sunny Came Home” from her 1996 album A Few Small Repairs. She’s never hit that level of mainstream success again, but at least that gave her a platform on which to build an ongoing career.
Steve Earle, who’s almost the same age as Colvin (she’s 58, he’s 69), blasted onto the country scene with his 1986 album Guitar Town. It was a brief window of time when country music was open to maverick performers like Earle, kd lang, Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovettt, and Rosanne Cash. Despite writing sharp, visceral songs, he quickly became too much for the country music establishment to handle with his history of drug addiction, jail sentences, multiple marriages and (gasp!) leftwing political views.
Colvin has had her share of woes too, dealing with depression, alcoholism, and anorexia (but only two marriages to Earle’s seven). So they’ve got plenty to talk about between songs when they perform “Stories and Songs, Together Onstage” at the Music Box Supper Club. But the songs — ranging from the wrenching to the celebratory — form the meat of the show.
Tickets are $65 in advance, $75 day of show.