Mark wrote: > Must be 'Hear Me Lord' from the new one. I'm really getting into this cd. > Does anyone know who Jude Johnstone is? The last track 'Wounded Heart' was > written by him and it's a gorgeous, heart-wrenching song. There was some > talk about Bonnie's 'earthy' side. 'Gnawin' On It' is a prime example of > that. 'Silver Lining' is highly recommended.
I don't know who Jude Johnstone is, but I'm also a huge fan of the new Bonnie album (and all her albums). On the flight over to the US this year, Bonnie was the featured artist on one of the audio stations on United. They played Silver Lining in it's entirety, plus a handful of her other tracks. The best part was that she gave a brief description of each song before it was played, and made some interesting comments. She said that she gets hundreds of tapes/CDs sent to her, for her consideration. She said she has an enormous bag full of them, and it may take a couple of years before she gets a chance to hear them. But she's found a few gems this way - she'll play a tape while she's driving around town, etc. If she likes it, she'll record it, then contact the writer to let them know. She spoke of one song she recorded from someone she'd never heard of in Canada, and phoned them and left the song on her answering machine! It turned out that the woman was quite well known in Canada, and had a couple of albums released locally. I wish I could remember which track she was talking about, but I know it was one of her more well-known songs. But I love that she does this - who knows what new talent she'll find this way! Not to take anything away from her own song-writing abilities - she's written some amazing stuff herself! Hell ____________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hell's Personal Photo Page: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/main/personal.htm Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: http://www.nbls.co.nz
