"I didn't drink until then because I was frightened of losing control, but when I started, when I was 19, that was it. I don't think anyone escapes into addiction because they feel good about themselves and the world is bothering them. "Sometimes, I still just want to take the edge off." It was so nice to take the edge off."Įven today, some 24 years after she stopped drinking, she struggles with it.Īnd if you're that anxious for that long, it takes a lot of energy to deal with it. Music played a huge part in keeping her together. She learnt to play guitar at 10 and moved to New York in her early 20s where, after playing in various bands, she met John Leventhal, the producer and writer with whom she's maintained a creative partnership for 25 years. Leventhal's fingerprints are visible on most of Colvin's nine albums and it was with him she achieved her most commercial success with Sunny Came Home, which won song of the year and record of the year at the 1998 Grammys. Given her tendency and talent for writing personal songs, it's ironic that Colvin is best known for a song that isn't about her at all. A feisty murder ballad, Sunny Came Home, is about a woman, betrayed and belittled by her husband, who returns home and sets fire to her house. "For the record, I've never set fire to my house or murdered anyone," she says, impishly. If Colvin had a breakthrough, A Few Small Repairs, the album containing Sunny Came Home, was it. Another song from the album became the theme tune of the short-lived Brooke Shields sitcom, Suddenly Susan, and she recorded songs for film soundtracks, among them Julia Roberts' Runaway Bride. She's appeared in The Simpsons, in which she voiced Rachel Jordan, the Christian rock star who dated Ned Flanders after Maude's death. And yet, she never fully crossed into the mainstream, remaining more of a cult favourite, a hidden gem, a diamond in the rough.
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