title: Fat City (Shawn Colvin album)
text: # Fat City (Shawn Colvin album)
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
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  | 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
  