Bonoff was so closely tied to Linda Ronstadt during the '70s singer/songwriting movement that many of her albums were tucked away in cut-out bins while her more famous interpreter made bundles of cash off her songs. Still, it's a testament to Bonoff's skill that she is tied to them at all. This 16-track career retrospective gathers the cozy and often slight highlights from an 11-year, five-album pool of intimate, L.A.-based recordings. It's missing a few core recordings, but the best of them here ...   [ read more ]

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Karla Bonoff returned to the album racks after six years with New World, on which she once again demonstrated her talent for plaintive romantic ballads. If there was nothing to match her best material, there were a couple of tunes that once again provided interpretative opportunities for Linda Ronstadt, especially "All My Life," which Ronstadt and Aaron Neville turned into a pop standard the year after this album was released, and a couple yet to be discovered, especially "Still Be Gettin...   [ read more ]

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If Karla Bonoff's debut album sounded like the sort of record that Linda Ronstadt or James Taylor were making at the same time, that shouldn't have been a surprise: the rhythm section of Leland Sklar and Russell Kunkel was the same, the tasteful chicken-scratching of guitarist Waddy Wachtel was present, and so was a cheering section including Ronstadt, Don Henley, Eagle associate J.D. Souther, and other charter members of the SoCal country/folk/rock club of the '70s. Also, Ron...   [ read more ]

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