Fat City (Shawn Colvin album)
# Fat City (Shawn Colvin album)

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Robert Christgau | C |
| Rolling Stone | |

Fat City is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin. It was released on October 27, 1992, on Columbia Records.

Fat City peaked at number 142 on the Billboard 200 and at number 2 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. "Round of Blues" and "I Don't Know Why" charted on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and Adult Contemporary single charts, respectively. "Tenderness on the Block" is a cover version of a song released on Warren Zevon's 1978 album Excitable Boy. Opening track "Polaroids" provided the title of her greatest hits album Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection, which was released in 2004.

## Songwriting

In an interview with Performing Songwriter magazine, Colvin described how she co-wrote songs for Fat City:

    The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music. Like on "Round of Blues" I wrote the whole song but Larry Klein said that it needed a bridge. So he wrote the bridge and I wrote the words to it. But Elly and I really shared every part of ["Set the Prairie on Fire"] equally. She wrote some of the words, I wrote some of the words, she wrote some of the music, I wrote some of the music.

## Personnel

* Shawn Colvin – guitar, vocals
* Bruce Hornsby – piano, background vocals
* David Lindley – Hawaiian guitar, bazouki, lap steel Guitar
* Joni Mitchell – percussion
* The Subdudes – vocals
* Richard Thompson – guitar
* Chris Whitley – National Steel guitar (8)
* Tommy Malone – guitar, background vocals
* Valerie Carter – background vocals
* Jim Keltner – drums
* Alex Acuña – percussion
* Steve Amedee – drums, background vocals
* Robin Batteau – background vocals
* Larry Campbell – fiddle, pedal steel
* Mary Chapin Carpenter – background vocals
* Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
* Denny Fongheiser – drums
* Béla Fleck – banjo
* Milt Grayson – background vocals
* Richie Hayward – drum brushes
* Curtis King – background vocals
* Larry Klein – bass, percussion, guitar, keyboards, drum programming
* Greg Leisz – pedal steel
* John Leventhal – guitar, bass, percussion
* John Magnie – accordion, background vocals
* Bill Payne – organ
* Jeff Pevar – guitar
* Steuart Smith – guitar
* Fonzi Thornton – background vocals
* Ken White – keyboards, background vocals
* Vinnie Zummo – guitar
* Johnny Ray Allen – bass
* Booker T. Jones – Hammond organ
