Ĭolvin relocated to New York City, joining the Buddy Miller Band in 1980 and later became involved in the Fast Folk cooperative of Greenwich Village. She then entered "the folk circuit in and around Berkeley", California before straining her vocal cords and taking a sabbatical at the age of 24. This was Colvin's ticket out of Carbondale. The band had decided if they were going to make it, Carbondale was not the place and planned to relocate to Austin. They were short a girl singer and she jumped at the opportunity. Her next shot came with the Dixie Diesels, a Carbondale country-swing outfit. But Colvin's personal demons coupled with drug and alcohol use curtailed their success. For six months they expanded their base throughout Illinois. Broadening her horizons, Colvin put a band together that featured Dennis Conroy (formerly with the popular Chicago band The Cryan’ Shames), Jack O’Boyle on guitar and Brian Sandstrom on bass. "For $30 I played four 45-minute sets." For the next year she was either playing somewhere or sitting in with someone else and started attracting a local following.
With a strip of bars down the main street it wasn't difficult to find a gig. Her first paid gig came just after she started college at Southern Illinois University. She learned to play guitar at the age of 10 and grew up listening to her father's collection of music, which included artists such as Pete Seeger and the Kingston Trio. Colvin was born Shawna Lee Colvin in Vermillion, South Dakota, and spent her youth in Carbondale, Illinois and London, Ontario, Canada.
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