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Diamond in the Rough
Shawn Colvin
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Description for Diamond in the Rough
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After learning to play guitar at the age of ten, Shawn Colvin was determined to make a life in music - a decision that would send a small-town girl out on the open road for good. In 1997, two decades after she started, she got her big break. Like the troubled would-be arsonist and survivor of her smash hit Sunny Came Home, Colvin knows a thing or two about heartache-and setting fires. Diamond in the Rough recounts this passionate musician's coming-of-age, from the prairies of South Dakota to the dark smoky bars in Austin, Texas, to the world stage at ... Read more
After learning to play guitar at the age of ten, Shawn Colvin was determined to make a life in music - a decision that would send a small-town girl out on the open road for good. In 1997, two decades after she started, she got her big break. Like the troubled would-be arsonist and survivor of her smash hit Sunny Came Home, Colvin knows a thing or two about heartache-and setting fires. Diamond in the Rough recounts this passionate musician's coming-of-age, from the prairies of South Dakota to the dark smoky bars in Austin, Texas, to the world stage at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061759291
SKU
V9780061759291
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Ref
99-15
About Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin is a singer-songwriter and musician. She began performing in bands in the late 1970s, and after years of polishing her skills in Austin, Texas, and the New York folk scene, Colvin released her debut album Steady On in 1989, earning a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Her breakthrough success was the album A Few Small Repairs ... Read more
Reviews for Diamond in the Rough
"[Colvin is] a gifted conversational writer with a wicked and unabashedly goofy sense of humor ... Her buoyant spirit fairly leaps off the stage, and her self-deprecating wit is as keen and quirky in recalling her brief brush with superstardom as it is applied to an ill-fated relationship."
USA Today "Colvin's fans will devour her behind-the-scenes stories; single mothers ... Read more
USA Today "Colvin's fans will devour her behind-the-scenes stories; single mothers ... Read more