Those type of records don’t make careers. People liked the record, but they didn’t identify it with anybody. “It was what they used to call a faceless hit. “That song really wasn’t representative of what I do,” she says. The jaunty, but somewhat formulaic, track “Personally” reached No. Interestingly enough, Bonoff’s sole single to reach the Top 40 was a song she didn’t even write. Mostly known for her ballads, Bonoff says she was often pressured by Columbia to come up with the type of up-tempo songs that were favored by pop radio at the time. 31 on the Billboard album charts, but stardom eluded her. Her second album, “Restless Nights,” reached No. When Ronstadt recorded her songs “Someone To Lay Down Beside Me,” “If He’s Ever Near” and “Lose Again” on the “Hasten Down the Wind” album, Bonoff was little known and struggling financially.īonoff recorded three albums in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Overall, Bonoff expresses a great deal of gratitude toward Ronstadt for covering her songs and helping to shine a light on her own performing career. After that they would come around and be really excited.” “I had to start explaining to audiences that these were my songs. All of a sudden I went, ‘These people think I’m playing Linda Ronstadt songs!’ “I just assumed that people would know that I wrote them. “I was opening for Jackson Browne out on my first tour, and I was playing those songs,” recalls Bonoff, who also plays guitar and piano on stage. On stage, she will be backed by her longtime collaborator Kenny Edwards on bass, guitar, mandolin and vocals and guitarist Nina Gerber. Sprinkled in with her catalog material will be some more recent songs that were featured on her 2007 concert CD, “Karla Bonoff Live.” This weekend, Bonoff will showcase her skills as a performer and singer in shows in Berkeley and Santa Crus. “People know me as a songwriter because other people recorded my songs, but I can’t really separate those things.” “I don’t separate them, because I’ve written songs and performed from the beginning,” Bonoff says. In actuality, the Los Angeles-bred artist feels she has always been as much a vocalist and performer as she is a tunesmith. 1 country hit Wynonna Judd scored with her song “Tell Me Why” and the impression you might get is that Bonoff is first and foremost a songwriter. Thirteen years later, Ronstadt sang three more of her tunes on another popular album called “Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind.” One of those tracks, “All My Life,” earned Rondstadt and her duet partner Aaron Neville a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Duo. Its the perfect soundtrack for Sweet's sweet vocals and harmonies (pun intended) and an unparalleled guitar pop tour de force.In 1976, Karla Bonoff had three of her songs included on Linda Ronstadt’s hit album “Hasten Down the Wind.” With the help of guitar virtuosos Television's Richard Lloyd, and former Voidoid guitarist and Lou Reed sideman, Robert Quine, Girlfriend is equal parts loud and jangly. Having used a drum machine on his previous albums, Sweet decided to go with real drums and to record most of the album live in he studio. Tentatively titled Nothing Lasts, the album was rechristened Girlfriend after actress Tuesday Weld objected to her image being used for an album called Nothing Lasts. Having released two competent, but commercial disappointing albums for 2 different labels, no one expected what came next. Professionally he had no label, and personally his marriage was falling apart. Things were not looking particularly up for Sweet as he worked on his third album. This week, we delve into what many contend is the blue print for 1990's power pop, the 1991 LP by Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend. Help! is a true underrated Beatles' gem worthy of additional attention and listens. And it contains “Yesterday,” a song that holds the world record for the number of covers recorded at 2200 and counting. Help! is a transitional album that moves the band away from their 60s pop oriented tunes towards a more mature sound influenced by Bob Dylan and utilizing the studio in in a way not done previously by a rock band. Tied to the movie of the same name, Help! is too often dismissed as just a soundtrack album and as a result, often gets overlooked. Released at the height of Beatlemania, Help! is the last album of what is typically considered “Early period” Beatles. We decided that the only way properly celebrate was to talk about an album by the most influential rock band in rock and roll history - the Beatles - and their fifth studio album: 1965’s Help!. So this is it, we’ve hit 100 album reviews (or whatever it is we do on our little show).
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