Shawn Colvin: Birchmere

It was just the way I hoped it would be. All there was on stage was a chair. Shawn Colvin came out just her and her guitar. It was beautiful and romantic and the acoustics in the Birchmere were incredible!

Some people are made to just play without a band. Some music gets so much better with a band and others just need to stand alone. I think Shawn Colvin's is so beautiful it is best naked and vulnerable in its simplest form. Her voice and the plucking of her fingers on the strings.

I think it was something about being pregnant because it was the first time I cried at a concert. She played her encore of, "I don't know why" and Simon & Garfunkel's "Kathy's Song" and it brought me back to listening to her in college while I sat in D.C. at the Birchmere feeling the baby move inside of me hearing, "I don't knowwhy I'm so in love with you." I welled over just feeling it all-life, time, love, my baby heart now encompassing another baby heart the spectrum and all the, "I don't know why's," in my life.