All Fall Down (Shawn Colvin album)

All Fall Down
Studio album by Shawn Colvin
Released	June 5, 2012
Recorded	Dogtown Studios, Nashville
Genre	Rock, contemporary folk
Length	41:41
Label	Nonesuch
Producer	Buddy Miller
Shawn Colvin chronology
These Four Walls (2006) All Fall Down (2012) Uncovered (2015)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

All Fall Down is the eighth studio album by recording artist Shawn Colvin, released in 2012.^[2]The album is Colvin's second studio release on Nonesuch Records and features collaborations with Emmylou Harris and Patty Griffin.^[3]

Track listing

1. "All Fall Down" (Shawn Colvin, John Leventhal) – 3:49
2. "American Jerusalem" (Rod MacDonald) – 5:14
3. "Knowing What I Know Now" (Colvin, Leventhal) – 3:24
4. "Seven Times the Charm" (Colvin, Leventhal, Jakob Dylan) – 4:26
5. "Anne of the Thousand Days" (Colvin, Bill Frisell) – 4:26
6. "The Neon Lights of the Saints" (Colvin, Leventhal) – 2:55
7. "Change Is on the Way" (Colvin, Patty Griffin) – 3:16
8. "I Don't Know You" (Colvin, Viktor Krauss) – 3:32
9. "Fall of Rome" (Colvin, Kenny White) – 3:54
10. "Up On That Hill" (Mick Flannery) – 3:44
11. "On My Own" (B. W. Stevenson) – 3:01

Personnel

• Brian Blade - drums
• Shawn Colvin - guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
• John Deaderick - keyboards, accordion
• Stuart Duncan - bowed zither, fiddle
• Jakob Dylan - background vocals
• Bill Frisell - guitar
• Emmylou Harris - background vocals
• John Hinchey - trombone
• Jim Hoke - clarinet
• Alison Krauss - background vocals
• Viktor Krauss - bass guitar
• Steve Man - cornet
• Anne McCrary - background vocals
• Regina McCrary - background vocals
• Buddy Miller - guitar, melodica, background vocals
• Julie Miller - background vocals
• Russ Pahl - pedal steel guitar
• Mike Poole - background vocals
• Carolyn Rosenfeld - background vocals

Chart positions

Chart (2012)	Peak position
Billboard 200	126

Reception

Rolling Stone's Will Hermes gave the album three stars out of five, saying the music heals, and particularly praising the song "American Jerusalem", which he says "will resonate for anyone who ever hated the Big Apple, even for a New York minute".^[4]

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Woodstra, Chris Shawn Colvin Biography All Music, retrieved May 25 2012
3. "Surviving a Struggle with a Sense of Hope". Retrieved April 10, 2014.
4. "Shawn Colvin: All Fall Down". Retrieved April 10, 2014.