Topic “Shawn Colvin”

By Brad Buchholz (Austin American-Statesman (MCT))

AUSTIN, Texas — Singer Shawn Colvin is a child of the prairie, born in South Dakota. But the emotional topography of her life is jagged and rocky and rough. Beyond the Grammy Awards, beyond the acclaim: Her story is a mountain range of pain.

Colvin lays it all out in a new memoir, “Diamond in the Rough” — a book not so much about...