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fave it Jazz Vocals | Jazzy Blues
12 tracks | 44 minutes
Released Nov 2005
on Bonnie Meadow
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:00 Walking Along This Road lyrics BUY MP3 04:00 Walking Along This Road lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:00 Walking Along This Road
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:49 Temptation lyrics BUY MP3 03:49 Temptation lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:49 Temptation
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:08 Just Like Me lyrics BUY MP3 02:08 Just Like Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:08 Just Like Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:02 I Gotta Go lyrics BUY MP3 04:02 I Gotta Go lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:02 I Gotta Go
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:30 Pin-up Girls lyrics BUY MP3 02:30 Pin-up Girls lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:30 Pin-up Girls
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:40 Human Condition lyrics BUY MP3 03:40 Human Condition lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:40 Human Condition
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:23 Falling Down lyrics BUY MP3 03:23 Falling Down lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:23 Falling Down
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:34 The People lyrics BUY MP3 05:34 The People lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:34 The People
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:54 Hot Flash lyrics BUY MP3 02:54 Hot Flash lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:54 Hot Flash
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:37 Slow Exit lyrics BUY MP3 04:37 Slow Exit lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:37 Slow Exit
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 Earthspeak lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 Earthspeak lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 Earthspeak
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:14 Earth Mother Blues lyrics BUY MP3 04:14 Earth Mother Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:14 Earth Mother Blues
Jazz and Blues permeate the original songs of Bonnie Meadow, while her roots - folk, show tunes and standards - are showing.
Bio / Background
Bonnie’s mother wrote in her Baby Book that she was singing and dancing when she was eleven months old. They still can’t get her to stop.
Classically trained from a young age, Bonnie began her career as a classical guitarist and singer, and went on to play lute, recorder, piano and a handful of other instruments. The classical training was solid, but listening to the likes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and Jerome Kern; going to see the hottest Broadway shows during the classic era of Broadway; immersion in ‘60s folk music and the life-altering rock music of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s all combined to emerge in a style that fuses these influences and yet is like none of them in particular.
Her lyrics are crafted with passion, humor and creativity. Her melodies will stay with you. (Management is not responsible for tunes that stick in your head).
Her songs tell her story, but though they are deeply personal their universality rings out.
↓ more ↓“Not a centerfold, but a woman you can hold” says her song “Just Like Me.” Her wry sense of humor comes through here and in her tongue-in-cheek “Pin-up Girls,” the daring “Hot Flash” and the lamenting “Human Condition.” She sings her heart out in “Falling Down,” the tale of a son whose life had “gotten ugly, it’s a tangle of sin” and in “Slow Exit” a song about her aging and diminishing mother, not the woman she remembers.
She hasn’t forgotten the convictions that shaped her in the ‘60s on marches against the war and for civil rights. She cries out in “The People” to remind the world that “... it’s not about the politics, the parties on the left or the right... it’s about the People.” She takes on the role of Earth Mother and laments the abuse heaped upon her by humans in “Earth Mother Blues” and an unusual, ethereal music-picture, “Earthspeak.”
Bonnie Meadow might just be the answer to the old saying: “They ain’t writing them like they used to.”
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