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Two years later, Colvin opened for CPR at the Birchmere. A song on her new album is a Crosby-Pevar composition, "Little Blind Fish," with Pevar playing bass and mandolin. Pevar also plays on a Colvin tune, "Love Have Mercy," which she proudly calls "one of my best songs."
Being back in Virginia has its momentary discomforts.
"I haven't had a Virginia spring in five years. I'm sneezing and coughing!" she said.
The Athenaeum show is a chance to reunite with opening act Roger Henderson, for whom she sang backup in the 1980s.
"I'm hoping to sit in with Roger and maybe throw in a backing vocal or two," she said. "If I get a chance to sing, honey, I'm there."
Despite the occasional minor inconveniences, "we're real glad to be back in the area," Colvin said. "It's something we've wanted to do for a while. To me, this show is more than a show. It's not exactly a homecoming, but it's like spring again. It's a new beginning."
-- MARIANNE MEYER
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