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In 2000 she released a retrospective on Sony/Legacy called All My Life: The Best of Karla Bonoff. In 1993 she topped the country charts with Wynonna’s version of “Tell Me Why.” And in ’95 Bryndle reunited and released an album, touring together for the first time in 15 years. This led to Karla signing a solo deal with Columbia and putting out four records, Karla Bonoff (1977), Restless Nights (1979), Wild Heart of the Young (1982), and almost a decade later, New World (1988) on Gold Castle Records.Īfter a few years’ retreat from the music industry, Karla re-emerged in the ’90s and had three more songs recorded by Ronstadt (“All My Life,” “Goodbye My Friend” and “Trouble Again”) for her Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind album, with “All My Life” winning a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Duo.
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Karla had three of her songs (“Someone To Lay Down Beside Me,” “Lose Again” and “If He’s Ever Near”) cut by Linda Ronstadt on her 1976 Hasten Down The Wind album. After making an unreleased album for A&M, Bryndle disbanded and the four went on to develop their own careers. She soon teamed up with other Troubadour regulars Wendy Waldman, Kenny Edwards and Andrew Gold to form Bryndle – the first singer-songwriter supergroup that was, unfortunately, just a few years ahead of their time. Growing up in the fertile Los Angeles music scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s, Karla and her sister, Lisa, were hoot-night regulars at the legendary Troubadour, watching then-unknowns such as James Taylor and Jackson Browne trying out their new songs. My friends were listening to AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and ZZ Top. The experience of her music felt relevant to me, unlike much of what was coming over FM radio in southern Maine at the time. I learned at least 20 of her songs when I was in high school and would play them over and over. I was drawn in by the honesty in her voice, soaring melodies, and lyrics that seemed to spill from her heart like intimate conversations. I remember spending much of the early ’80s in a stiff Shaker chair by the record player in my parents’ kitchen, hunched over my guitar, completely absorbed in the contentment of learning and playing Karla Bonoff songs. Below are excerpts of an interview by singer-songwriter Catie Curtis with Karla Bonoff that appeared in the Jan/Feb 2000 Issue of Performing Songwriter.