The most logical explanation for this record only getting to number 40 in the charts is that it's too American. It's the type of record you'd expect to do pretty well in American but not in the UK. Except for one thing, this never made the Billboard 100.
What probably helped this record actually make the Top 40 in the UK was the fact it was performed on "Later With Jools Holland" at the end of 1994 and charted at the start of January 1995, a time of year when sales a traditionally low.
It was a cover of a song by American folk singer Greg Brown and appeared on Shawn Colvin's "Cover Girl" album which was an album full of covers. It was the Top 40 debut for Shawn Colvin and she would have one further Top 40 hit in 1998 with the better known "Sunny Came Home" which was also her only Billboard 100 single.
It was also the Top 40 debut for Mary-Chapin Carpenter. She also had one further UK Top 40 hit with "Shut Up and Kiss Me" later on in the year which made 35 in the UK and 90 on the Billboard 100. Like Shawn Colvin she didn't have much success on the Billboard 100 but she had quite a few hits in the US Country Charts with "Shut Up and Kiss Me" topping them.
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