Fat City (Shawn Colvin album)

Fat City
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 27, 1992
RecordedLarry Klein's House
Length55:34
LabelColumbia
Producer
Shawn Colvin chronology
Steady On
(1989)
Fat City
(1992)
Cover Girl
(1994)

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 US Billboard 200 and at number 2 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. From the album, "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 Colvin's greatest hits album Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection, which was released in 2004.