The Best Of Karla Bonoff: All My Life

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Total Tracks: 16   Total Length: 63:34

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The Best of Karla Bonoff

Ricky.Robertson

Fantastic! I can't believe I let her slip through the cracks. Her voice is so pure and the melodies are wonderful. I love the Ronstadt versions, but there's something about Karla's versions that really stand out. I started with the greatest hits, but now I will go back and download other tracks from all the other albums.

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Karla , the Original

MickMaag

Downloaded this album since we had tickets for a very intimate setting at the Midland Theatre in Ohio to see this wonderous voice. Karla is right up there with the best of the best. Her voice is so clear and pure and her writing is totally up to many pars... as demonstrated by how she creates music for others to copy.. she is what i call the complete artist.. one who can write and compose her own songs.. thanks for a great night...

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Nice!

Marc200

Bonoff wrote beautiful songs and she's a warm, engaging vocalist. This is a good collection. Although, many of these songs were covered by Linda Ronstadt, whose gorgeous, acrobatic voice embellished them so completely that Bonoff's more subdued delivery makes the originals sound like demos in comparison.

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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 (“I Can’t Hold On,” “Baby Don’t Go,” and “Personally”) characterize the era’s/region’s singer/songwriter society in all its warm-hearted, occasionally pleasant tedium. – Michael Gallucci

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