Q Whose idea was it to include cover songs?Ī A lot of it started with stuff we talked about when we were touring the first time. So there were days we were actually in the same room writing songs, and we have six songs to show for it. But we did get together three times for two days at a time: once in Nashville, once at Shawn’s house in Austin and once at my place in New York City. For song writing, it works OK because it doesn’t matter if you send the wrong text to the wrong person. We’re like Crosby, Stills and Nash because we both have our own careers.Ī Sometimes I was on a bus and she was in an airport and there was texting involved. Q Is that why you decided to collaborate on a duo record?Ī Yes, it was that connection. Either one of us could make a living busking in the subway if all this went to hell. Q I know you’ve both been through a lot in life, but as artists what do you share in common?Ī We know a lot songs, know a lot of tunings and know a lot of ways to maximize that deal of one person and one guitar. The fact that it’s pretty and as soft as it is, is what makes “Sunny” so frightening and at the same time riveting. That would have scared the out of everybody and nobody would have ever heard it. “Sunny” is pretty effective, because you couldn’t have yelled it. She’s written some great songs and what is arguably the anthem.
And then she asked me to do a tour where we would tell some stories and sing some songs together and some songs separate.Ī She’s a great guitar player really great singer. After I got clean and started touring again, I ran into her almost every couple of festivals. Part of me originally starting thinking that maybe I was worth saving. When my habit had taken me out of everything, she recorded my song, “ Someday.” That was a little light in a lot of darkness. We ran into each other off and on over the years. I was playing the Iron Horse in Northampton, Massachusetts, and she opened for me. Q When did you first cross paths with Shawn Colvin?Ī It was just before her first record came out. “It took a little bit to get this together and make it work, but we did,” says Earle, speaking mid-tour from the Northern California town of Redding. Colvin, famous for the smash hit “ Sunny Came Home” off the 1996 album “A Few Small Repairs,” was dubious at first, fearing the logistics would be too overwhelming. It’s titled “ Colvin & Earle,” and Earle, 61, assures it won’t be the last time the Grammy-winning folksingers get together to write, perform and record an album.Įarle, whose breakthrough was the 1986 album “Guitar Town,” had proposed they cut an album after a co-headlining concert tour in 2014. Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle are coming to the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State Los Angeles tonight in support of their collaborative debut album.
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