Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday March 24 1998 —Pago 17 ONE BIG HAPPY iH Singer Shawn Colvin a pop artist lr JIM filAD YOU COULD - BOOK Iff MMH0WMIL 05TOHAWVOL JMUSnRMNOL KCAtfS late-bloomi- ng By Chip Brown Aaaodatod Prow writer CATHY t MERE ARE AUTRE MATURE yyu immjm' BUSMCtt CLONES NOW nMTXKMUy NCCOTOM? Colvin’s lyrics are filled with painful AUSTIN Texas — Shawn Colvin wu puttering around her Lake Austin home getting organized for a aok acoustic concert tour that would itart in New Hampshire in a few day r AliMNE! M NAVE IWShWe PLEATED SMOTE Mb Of A Between goofing around with Grace WWU NEW UNE MMK-SOtE- O in upbeat melodies that she her charts her husband Mario Erwin a photographer and aewn has long felt were ripe for the pop preschool niece and spending some quiet time with FLATS! KML PWHERSZP- - Kuo stories of loneliness doubt and love gone wrong but are shrouded on graphic artist she met while water-skiin- g Austin two years ago she had been looking at the record sale charts shrouded in upbeat melodies that she hu long felt There wu a time when she wouldn't scan the 'were ripe for the pop charts charts But these days she can't help herself Radio and MTV however have for the most At 42 she hu been singing for a living for 24 a folk singer limiting her part pigeonholed her years She hu released four studio albums plus a access to the airwaves live album under an independent label Although Her songs appear on MTV because the her debut album “Steady On" won a Grammy cable networkrarely considers her more suited for VH-- 1 award in 1990 for best contemporary folk recorda leu watched music channel that favors euy lising none of her first three albums went gold Now she's about to go platinum (1 million copies tening “I tty not to make it my business to know those sold) thanks in luge part to two top Grammy statistics because it’s too maddening” Colvin said song of the year and record of the year “But there’s no question that MTV hu an impact ' Came Home” a — for the top 10 hit "Si single It’s huge exposure MTV chose not to run my from hu fourth album “A Pew Small Repairs” video even ‘Sunny Came Home I hope they Throw in the fact that she is expecting her first their mind” change child a girt in August and it's shaping up to be a Colvin wu a regular in the Lilith Fair conceit year of firsts for Colvin tour launched but summer by Sarah McLachlan “I got used to working the way I worked putting several solo female artists an album out every two or three years and touting featuring Two members of the tour Sheryl Crowe to make a living never really thinking about charts and other Paula Cole were up against Colvin for record or album sales” she said “I have basically jut of die yean afloat” v “I think being with Sheryl and Paula native of South Dakota who dropped out of continued die celebration" Colvin said “It wu not Southern Illinois University Colvin moved to Austin in 1973 to perform with the Dixie Diesels a a problem which of course sounds very euy to say now But I truly felt that way I like those country rock band In 1980 she went solo and moved into a mouse-infeste- d women" Colvin will play 28 solo tour stops nationwide New York City apartment with some 1 and then make two appearances Hell’s Angels for neighbors and played bars and through May Lilith Fair with in late June in Los Angeles and San clubs She developeu a loyal following in small venues — always hoping for but never expecting Diego before slowing down to have her baby She said die looks forward to taking some time more off after the tout She’ll spend it at home in Austin “You want to think that you deserve the accolades” said Colvin who wu signed by rnhimMa where she chose to live because of its lakes and its Records in 1988 “But to when you get that sort love of music “Sometimes I wonder if dungs would be easier of tip of the hat one can never say Sometimes you never do You just stick with it and do it far die for' my work if I lived in New York or Los Angemusic This (the Grammys) will certainly help with les” she said “But I have maneuvered my life in a direction that felt better to me on die inside and it my profile and ability to sell records I hope” John Levendud her longtime music producer and seems to be paying off “I met my husband here We’re having a child a former boyfriend from the early barroom singing in New York says Colvin is finally being and I made the best record of my career in my days " opinion here and it’s done well for me So I think appreciated “Shawn is definitely someone who hu paid her it’s been a really good move” Colvin is pregnant at a time when she could be dues and hu been gigging a long time" said ‘ lucrative tour for alw wn writing u HAGAR THE HORRIBLE u PEANUTS AS HE 5ETTLES INTO HERE'S THE mat hq sOfy fiIA UMLNN60UT- - 9 astftevw iiy into imaging” he sattL "She is an artist of substance audit’s great that the Grammy Awards have recognized that” Colvin’s lyrics are filled with painful storks of loneliness doubt and love gone wrong but are ONTOTHE AERODROME rrr “ 111 it can only be good" she said “B will be a a burden or lenge I don’t think I can look at this something that will detract If it’s forward motion in my personal life then it hu to be something posii u tive for my work Joseph Heller’s latest work a good ‘catch’ for readers Memoir ‘Now and Then’ another masterpiece g master from story-tellin- By Mario Sxichman Associated Press writer FOXTROT WEttfNE School U DREW THAT WBL TbHomtL 1 TEAM Neff 6cmN6 lb USE SoMETHMS THAT M FACE lUE laundry WITH A jfTr PETER LAWNY NMKQS MEUKEWMrrrBMWMT! WHERE aN EMRHWbUO mu SET H CCA THAT m 60AHE aN DbESNTT WASH off THIS INK r WDO IRGDbME 1 Joseph Heller is like a character in Dashiell Hammett's “The Maltese Falcon” the one who started a new life after barely avoiding a felling beam The man realized that everything happens by chance and that we depend on luck rood and bad But after some years of his new life Hammett’s character discovered another troth: Lightning rarely strikes twice in the same place And he resumed living his new life the same way he had lived the old one As Heller tells in his memoir “Now and Then” (Knopf $24) the beam that fell new Heller wu World War IL A boy from the magic kingdom of Coney Island in Brooklyn Heller wu recruited by the Air Force the ineffable and at 20 discovered madness Or Yossarion said in Heller's classic novel “Catch-22- " — and Heller repeats here — he realized “through experience that this wsr wu perilous and u REAL LIFE ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME BEUV£SHE TUBS JCUTCANf THE HARDWARE STORE FU6R5 AND Bv WANTED J AT7H03mWMT7HE Philo Alder The supplementary Christmas competition questions were these pizza answered correctly by fewer than half the entrants Most assumed 700 X!NOW THERES NO 7EUMC NHAT that The Bridge World which started in October 1929 is the oldest bridge magazine in the world but Bridge Magazine began in England in May 1926 Also Aany thought that the American Contract Bridge League Bulletin hu put out foe most issues Well it didn't begin I Nf&rr pND publication until January 1934 The question about whether an more possiMe auctions or deals wu misunderstood by there Mm and woman have dlfforent conceptions about what's Junk malL u u u li stall”) While Closing Time the sequel to Catch-2- 2 seemed to mark foe farewell of Heller’s literary career “Now and Then” marks a welcome return Perhaps some beam hu fallen new Heller recently If so the reader is foe beneficiary to prove that there are for more poNufale auctions VERNON CATAL06 COUPONS that they were trying to kill me” People tried to kill Heller for about a year Once 60 he completed his tour of duty (“then defined missions”) in December 1944 he resumed his normal lifestyle exactly where he left it Except that the GL Bin allowed hum to go to college and become a writer ' Yossarion is one at America’s neat antiheroes Heller’s distinction is a great deflater of bombastic and hokum remarks He says that even the Air Medal he won “came as a routine with the completion of every fixed number of missions and not others might suppose for foe accomplishment of anything particuunfo valorous” “Now and Then” is the work of a master who hu mellowed with time but who hasn’t lost his sense of humor and irony Th finnlr i fall nt nnrt in of Coney Island during the Depression And its mood is surprising like “Tbm Sawyer” (curiously a novel that Helkr says “didn’t rully please me Win at bridge KPT THE LtUAN 70100 SNe threw ear u Book review ‘Graded : W wanks lie cost has to stay on tor foe next 37 bid at toast Ms way you ccnsm get around" several people Sorry I didn't make it clearer Even more remarkable were Joseph Tune of Conshohocken Pa and J Brian Sladen from Memphis Tfcnn who gave the mathematics Bridge time! 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