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- From: e343gv@tamuts.tamu.edu (Gary Varner)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: Karla Bonoff
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 04:35:54 GMT
- Organization: Perennial Posey Pickers
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- In some article someone wrote:
- >
- >I also like her first album (_Karla_Bonoff_). It has ... a good song that
- >Bonnie Raitt did a version of (but I forget the title, even though I remember
- >most of the words). It's a good one to sing while driving home.
- >
- > Travelin' at night -- the headlights were bright,
- > And we'd been up many an hour.
- > When all through my brain came the refrain of home and its warming fire.
-
- That'd be "Home" (surprise, surprise!).
-
- I _loved_ that first album of hers from the middle to late 1970's.
- I'd highly recommend (and I'd shout out for in a concert if she didn't
- do it) "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me":
-
- There's somebody waiting, alone in the street
- For someone to walk up and greet
- Here you are all alone in the city
- Where's the one that you took to your side?
- Lonely faces will stare through your eyes in the night
-
- And they'll say, "Woman sweet woman, please come home with me
- You're shinin' and willin' and free"
- But your [their?] love it's a common occurance,
- Not like love that I feel in my heart
- Still you know that may be what I need
-
- Is someone to lay down beside me, even though it's not real
- Someone to lay down beside me, you're the story of my life . . .
-
- That, again, from memory . . . Reminds me of the Cowboy Junkies' (that is,
- Michael Timmons') lyric, "I think I'll find a pair of eyes tonight | to fall
- into and maybe strike a deal | your body for my soul, fair swap | 'cause
- cheap is how I feel . . . "
-
- >> but I like her second album even more. If only I could
- >> remember the name of it! It contains my very favorite version of "The Water
- >> is Wide," arranged by Pete Seeger among others, and with James Taylor and
- >> J.D. Souther on guitar accompaniment and vocals.
-
- Oh, god. Stop me now. Still my pounding heart. Is that the same version
- that's on the old "No Nukes" album? That's just a *fantastic* version!
- Does anybody know the tab or chords to that?
-
- *sigh*
-
- And I too can't recommend her later stuff, in particular the only CD of
- hers that I've got, namely _New World_. Go for the first album!!!
-
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