Shotgun Down The Avalanche - Shawn Colvin Lost Concert

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @jaymartin294
    @jaymartin294 Рік тому +3

    Great, great video to match the metaphoric lines. Love this lady.

  • @richardwilliamson1639
    @richardwilliamson1639 Рік тому +2

    I have been obsessed by this song and this singer ever since I first heard her. Our beloved angel.

  • @TimotheeLee
    @TimotheeLee Рік тому +1

    This is the first Shawn Colvin song I heard. It hit me like the brick in a Crazy Cat comic strip, that little mouse still got it.

  • @doc84662
    @doc84662 4 роки тому +5

    Oh Shawn, I don't think this world deserves you. Your talent is the underlying foundation of life and this world fights those who can connect to that ever flowing stream of love, that is what you bring when you write and sing. Please don't stop for anything. You are LOVED.

    • @TimotheeLee
      @TimotheeLee Рік тому

      A song like this only comes around once in a life time.

  • @NicoletteDeBruijn
    @NicoletteDeBruijn 4 роки тому +4

    The most beautiful song ever written on this earth !!! Xxx

  • @suzannelawson9215
    @suzannelawson9215 4 роки тому +4

    "Shotgun Down the Avalanche".
    My favorite Shawn Colvin song. Sad song of lost love.
    I still remember when I heard this song for the first time, many years ago.
    I was shopping in a Santa Monica luggage and purse shop.
    While looking around in the store, this song came on the radio and I just stood there listening. I was hoping that the singer would be identified after the song was over. I was not familiar with Shawn Colvin at the time.
    So the radio station did say her name and my next mission was to find it to buy it. Found it a few weeks later at a record shop in Burbank. 😊

  • @josmarsanches9378
    @josmarsanches9378 Рік тому +1

    Beautiful song

  • @doc84662
    @doc84662 5 років тому +3

    It's the conflict that brings the privacy of love. I watched her in Park City a couple of weeks ago, I've never felt so humble to be in the presence of such talent.

  • @folkmusicgirl
    @folkmusicgirl 12 років тому +5

    Paradiso, Amsterdam - wow - I was there in the 70's when I was soooo young. Didn't know this place was still around. I remember (in those days) everyone sitting in this hugh place - no seats but everyone was sitting on the floor - Danish , British, Germans, Americans - we were all sooooo young - teens and some in their 20's. The room was very dimly lit and this big stage with many different singers - folk and rock - don't know who the singers were now - but it was great fun for a teenager then!

  • @tinabirdshafer
    @tinabirdshafer 9 років тому +11

    this is just a gorgeous song. beautiful poetry, melody and haunting performance

  • @tinabirdshafer
    @tinabirdshafer 5 років тому +4

    brilliant song.

  • @75cbraun
    @75cbraun 11 років тому +6

    this is my favorite version of this song

  • @paullevine1813
    @paullevine1813 12 років тому +4

    always a pro shawn colvin never dissapoints her fans, here she shows us why

  • @taracatalin
    @taracatalin 12 років тому +3

    I was there and Shawn is so amazing live.....

  • @rippermcguinn
    @rippermcguinn 5 років тому +2

    I heard this soon after it was released, been hooked ever since.

  • @thomasbernecky2078
    @thomasbernecky2078 7 років тому +3

    Shawn thanks for all the wonderful music.

  • @creditstraightworld6574
    @creditstraightworld6574 5 років тому +1

    phenomenal voice and that guitar playing

  • @philr9684
    @philr9684 7 років тому +3

    Fantastic voice.

  • @ZZZZAS
    @ZZZZAS 11 років тому +2

    a lovely performance

  • @tamiwhitehead
    @tamiwhitehead Рік тому

    Just wow

  • @G.151
    @G.151 5 років тому +1

    How could anyone in their right mind give this video a thumbs down?

  • @theaabo100
    @theaabo100 13 років тому +1

    Love it

  • @ZitaZone
    @ZitaZone 7 років тому +5

    Her best performance of this song was on Austin City Limits when she sang it with Alison Krauss

  • @SuperBSmeter
    @SuperBSmeter 11 років тому +1

    I think the lyrics suggest a woman dealing with an abusive situation - deciding to leave or stay...

  • @igloozoo3771
    @igloozoo3771 3 роки тому +1

    Seriously, who are the Shawn Colvin, Joni Mitchell's of this generation?

    • @hughfoy6801
      @hughfoy6801 2 роки тому

      check out AJ Lee of Blue Summit

    • @barbarabaldwin7120
      @barbarabaldwin7120 Рік тому

      geniuses.

    • @TimotheeLee
      @TimotheeLee Рік тому

      Blue was moody but this song is so much darker. I'd have to call it Black.

  • @ravenstylez
    @ravenstylez 11 років тому +2

    I wonder, what does it actually mean: riding shotgun down the avalanche?

    • @timmymcdiddy5502
      @timmymcdiddy5502 6 років тому +7

      You obviously have never been caught up in a turbulent, disastrous, hopeless relationship. You are at the mercy of the other person who is driving things while you feel trapped riding shotgun as they steer by means of their erratic will and emotions. It’s hopeless but you do not feel capable of getting off. You blame them for willfully hurting you and you blame yourself for putting up with it,
      when you know a healthy person would just find a way to quit. It’s harder still when kids are involved...aka hostages.

    • @mykingdomforahorse9256
      @mykingdomforahorse9256 6 років тому +1

      @@timmymcdiddy5502 ......usually narcissistic people who are mean and cruel.

    • @Jjaymontie
      @Jjaymontie 4 роки тому +3

      As a lifelong snow skier I relate to this in a very visceral way. When you've had a few days of sunny skiing and you get that hard freeze at night, and the icy conditions and then it clouds up, and dumps 24 hours continuous of fresh snow over the ice, and you have to get out and get that fresh powder run, off the summit. And you take the risk and ski down the chute, because its now new and there is all that new untracked snow, and know you can sit back, ride the tails, and you can criss cross up the sides of the draw in order to control your speed.
      And you have to do it, because its so beautiful, the new fallen snow. But when the snow breaks loose from the ice, and starts to slide beneath and you start to feel what seems like the whole mountain giving way beneath your skis, you know damn well that you'd better stay on your feet, or you're going to be swept into a pile of snow and debris at the bottom.
      Then you stop your controlled back and forth up the steep sides trying to control your speed, because its all breaking away, and you get into the trough, and "ride shotgun down the avalanche," until you reach a place wide enough that you can ski out of the avalanche onto a safe place and out of the thundering trough.
      Its that destructive relationship that pulls you in because you can see the beauty and the damage of the person you love, and you're sure that you can be the one that makes it all better. But once the ground begins to slide under your feet, you hold on, helpless, knowing you have to see it through to the end. And you know it may leave you battered and broken, and your best ending is that you might be able to ski off to the edge and watch it thunder on down the mountain. But you might also have the best downhill run of your life, the kind that inspires great stories, and great songs, like this one.
      Yeah, safe to say I've shed a few tears to this song. I've lived it. both in the snow, and in a couple relationships. Sean Colvin captured it in language I could understand, and sings it with a pathos I have felt.

    • @unturnthisstone
      @unturnthisstone 3 роки тому +3

      Sorry you never got a clear answer to your good question! "Riding shotgun" is an American expression. It's not used in my country (UK) so I also didn't have a clear definition! It means sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle. So the image of someone tumbling down with snow shows them as being in a terrible situation in their relationship.

    • @hughfoy6801
      @hughfoy6801 2 роки тому

      @@unturnthisstone I have always thought it referred to a troubled relationship with someone addicted to cocaine. Maura O'Connell does a great cover and her song "Blue Chalk" speaks of a similar dilema

  • @JeanneCiampa
    @JeanneCiampa Рік тому

    Kills me