Shawn Colvin ~ Similar Artists

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Indigo Girls - 100% match to Shawn Colvin

This US duo comprises Amy Ray (12 April 1964, Decatur, Georgia, USA; vocals/guitar) and Emily Saliers (b. 22 July 1963, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; vocals/guitar), who had met aged 10 and 11 while at school in Decatur, Georgia, USA. Soon they started to perform together,... Read more

Jonatha Brooke - 94% match to Shawn Colvin

Mary Chapin Carpenter - 90% match to Shawn Colvin

21 February 1958, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Carpenter's father was an executive for Life magazine, and she spent part of her early life living in Japan. She grew up with a love of contemporary pop hits, although her mother's Woody Guthrie and Judy Collins records gave her some... Read more

Patty Larkin - 78% match to Shawn Colvin

Iowa, USA. Expert guitarist and singer-songwriter Patty Larkin has described her style as "folk music meets the beat generation meets rock 'n' roll." In the meantime, critics have described her acoustic, electric and slide guitar technique and presentation as "comparable to the... Read more

Melissa Etheridge - 69% match to Shawn Colvin

29 May 1961, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. Etheridge was still only a teenager when she began playing piano and guitar in various covers bands around Kansas. After this grounding she had a more formal training at the Berklee College Of Music before playing the club circuit around... Read more

Lucy Kaplansky - 64% match to Shawn Colvin

Patty Griffin - 63% match to Shawn Colvin

16 March 1964, Old Town, Maine, USA. This US singer-songwriter made her name on the Boston/Cambridge folk scene in the mid-90s, leading to a major label recording contract with A&M Records. Griffin began writing songs as a teenager but at this point in her life was more... Read more

Rickie Lee Jones - 63% match to Shawn Colvin

8 November 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Jones emerged from a thriving Los Angeles bohemian sub-culture in 1979 with a buoyant debut album, peppered with images of streetwise characters and indebted, lyrically, to beat and jazz styles. The set included the Chuck E. Weiss tribute... Read more

Dar Williams - 62% match to Shawn Colvin

19 April 1967, Mount Kisco, New York, USA. Singer-songwriter Dar Williams first gained exposure by playing tiny church halls and cramped coffee houses on the small-town Massachusetts folk circuit. Her debut album, The Honesty Room, was released by Grapevine Records in 1995 and... Read more

Bonnie Raitt - 61% match to Shawn Colvin

8 November 1949, Burbank, California, USA. Born into a musical family, her father, John Raitt, starred in Broadway productions of Oklahoma! and Carousel. Having learned guitar as a child, Raitt became infatuated with traditional blues, although her talent for performing did not... Read more