Album · Shawn Colvin
A Few Small Repairs by Shawn Colvin
A Few Small Repairs is an album by Shawn Colvin, released in 1996. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 7 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Sunny Came Home”, on 7 lists with a best position of #102.
A Few Small Repairs, Shawn Colvin's fourth studio album, came out on Columbia on October 1, 1996, with John Leventhal producing, and it's the record that took a singer-songwriter who'd cut her teeth in folk and rock bands to a far bigger crowd. Leventhal wraps her songs in crisp, rootsy rock textures, and Colvin sings them with a cool, clear-eyed calm that makes the sharper edges cut deeper.
The breakthrough was "Sunny Came Home", a hypnotic, slow-burning single that went on to win the Grammys for Song of the Year and Record of the Year, and it still sounds like her high-water mark. Columbia/Legacy gave the album a 20th anniversary edition in 2017, newly remastered and padded out with seven previously unheard live tracks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from A Few Small Repairs on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunny Came Home | 7 | #102 | – | 1997–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.