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Fat City (Shawn Colvin album)

Fat City is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin. It was released on October 27, 1992, on Columbia Records.

Fat City peaked at number 142 on the US Billboard 200 and at number 2 on Billboards Top Heatseekers chart. From the album, "Round of Blues" and "I Don't Know Why" charted on Billboards Modern Rock Tracks and Adult Contemporary single charts, respectively. "Tenderness on the Block" is a cover version of a song released on Warren Zevon's 1978 album Excitable Boy. Opening track "Polaroids" provided the title of Colvin's greatest hits album ', which was released in 2004.

Songwriting

In an interview with Performing Songwriter magazine, Colvin described how she co-wrote songs for Fat City:

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 [Brown] 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.

Reception

In Rolling Stone, Stacey D'Erasmo described Fat City as "a fatter, happier record" than Colvin's 1989 debut Steady On and commended "her ability to convey the ambivalent wonder of meeting happiness as if for the first time."

Track listing

Personnel

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