Folk and pop form the perfect alliance in Shawn Colvin. She's an artist of rare lyrical insight who added her voice to the New York singer-songwriter circuit in the mid-80s, where she mixed off-Broadway work with stints on backing vocals for Suzanne Vega. The singer-songwriter is blessed with a wondrous voice – a clear but distinctive, confessional but ringing instrument that lends all her music a signature sound of hip intimacy.