The album includes Bonoffs only Top 40 hit, 'Personally', which peaked at No. Third album by singer/songwriter Karla Bonoff. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)To celebrate Karla Bonoff's birthday, Performing Songwriter pulled an interview with her by songwriter Catie Curtis from our archives for everyone to enjoy.Personally (Karla Bonoff song) Song recorded by American singer-songwriter Karla Bonoff which was released as the lead single from her 1982 album Wild Heart of the Young. Karla Bonoff still loves the stage By Jon Matsumoto For the Mercury News In 1976, Karla Bonoff had three of her songs included on Linda Ronstadt's hit album 'Hasten Down the Wind.' 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,
I’ll never be someone who writes 200 songs it’s just my own process. “Now that I’m not really under pressure from major labels, I understand I’m not someone who writes a lot. I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m just not a really prolific writer,” she continued.
“Without doing those songs, there’s no way I would have had the success I had, because it brought so much attention to me,” she said. Although, frustratingly, many initially mistook renditions by Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt as originals, Bonoff feels nonetheless honored to have been sung by the likes of them. Whether with her own singing or through the voices of others, her brilliant and powerful, quiet storm ballads, such as “All My Life,” “Someone to Lay Down Beside Me,” and “Home,” have become classics of the folk-rock and adult contemporary realms, accompanying wedding dances, late-night tear-duct drains, and innumerable otherwise tender or soul-searching moments for years.
“When you grow up, you care less about what people think. “When I was younger, I was trying to prove that I was a good songwriter, and I would work at it — there was that hunger you have in your twenties and thirties to sort of establish yourself,” she said. Now there’s nothing to lose,” she said. I wasn’t always that comfortable. “I was kind of a more timid performer then.
“I feel like I left some kind of stamp on the world, and that’s pretty wonderful,” she said. Generations of fans have told Bonoff that her music was the soundtrack to their lives or that it served as a healing hand in a time of divorce or even that her name was the inspiration for their child’s name. We were so fortunate to be musicians then.”The music she and others from the Troubadour scene made in those years has left a permanent imprint on the hearts and minds of many since. “In retrospect, being able to be a young, up-and-coming musician in those days was so incredible — there was so much opportunity and so much creativity, and record companies would let you develop your artistry. “I feel like when we were all there in the moment, we didn’t really quite realize how incredibly cool that was,” she said. Being able to be in the moment for me has become a lot easier.”There is, of course, some nostalgia for the freely expressive days of the ’60s and ’70s when music culture was less corporatized.
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