Her third album “Wild Heart of the Young” (1982) featured her hit song “Personally,” which was originally written by Paul Kelly and shown to her by late Eagles great Glenn Frey. When you sing every night and perform every night, your voice gets better and your interpretation of songs gets better, so when I went to my second one, I felt like a better singer.”
“After my first album I was extensively on tour. “I had almost my whole life to prepare for my first record, then not much time to prepare for my second,” Bonoff said.
After that, her second album “Restless Nights” (1979) featured originals like “Trouble Again” and “Baby Don’t Go” and covers like “When You Walk in the Room” and “The Water is Wide.” She learned about life on the road by touring her first album with Jackson Browne. “Kenny Edwards and I had been making demos of those songs … so we’d done a lot of homework on those songs plus the other ones that were on my first record, so when we went into the studio we were really ready to make that record,” Bonoff said. “They recorded different songs and they’re both so different, so I think they’re both incredible women singers, so how lucky was I to get those two women singing those songs when my songs were new to people?”īonoff released her own self-titled debut album “Karla Bonoff” (1977), including songs like “Isn’t It Always Love,” which was later covered by country star Lynn Anderson in 1980. “Those are apples and oranges,” Bonoff said. In 1977, Bonoff’s original song “Home” was recorded by Raitt, which she calls a huge honor even if it’s impossible to compare working with legends like Ronstadt and Raitt. “All of a sudden it turned into her doing three songs, which was pretty incredible for me because I’d been working, writing and struggling for 10 years.” “I was in a band with Kenny Edwards, who was in The Stone Ponies with Linda, and Andrew Gold and Wendy Waldman, so we’d often do background vocals on Linda’s albums,” Bonoff said. She eventually sang background vocals for Ronstadt, who used three of her original songs on the album “Hasten Down the Wind” (1976), including “Someone To Lay Down Beside Me,” “Lose Again” and “If He’s Ever Near.”
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