BONNIE BRAMLETT
''IT'S TIME''
1974
38:13
**********
01 - Your Kind Of Kindness 03:44 (Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett)
02 - Atlanta, Georgia 02:49 (Bonnie Bramlett, Patsy Camp)
03 - It's Time 05:08 (Scott Boyer)
04 - Cover Me 03:54 (Eddie Hinton, Marlin Greene)
05 - Higher & Higher 02:16 (Carl Smith, Gary Jackson, Raymond Miner)
06 - Where You Come From 02:45 (Eddie Hinton, Jim Coleman)
07 - Cowboys And Indians 04:15 (Bobby Charles, Ben Keith)
08 - (Your Love Has Brought Me From A) Mighty Long Way 03:01 (Jackie Avery, Earl Simms, Carl McWilliams)
09 - Since I Met You Baby 03:04 (Ivory Joe Hunter)
10 - Oncoming Traffic 07:13 (Gregory Lenoir Allman, Janice B. Allman)
**********
Lagatha Beck Smallwood/Vocals
Scott Boyer/Guitar
Randall Bramblett/Saxophone
Bonnie Bramlett/Vocals
Dave Brown/Saxophone
Earl Ford/Trombone
Eddie Hinton/Guitar
Ricky Hirsch/Horn
Paul Hornsby/Keyboards
Jaimoe/Conductor
Clydie King/Vocals
Leo Labranche/Trumpet
Chuck Leavell/Piano
Sherlie Matthews/Vocals
Tom Ridgeway/Synthesizer
Johnny Sandlin/Guitar, Percussion
Bill Stewart/Drums
Tommy Talton/Guitar
Jerry Thompson/Drums
Kenny Tibbetts/Bass, Percussion
Butch Trucks/Conductor
Harold Williams/Saxophone
**********
REVIEW/AMG
Joe Viglione
Although Delaney Bramlett co-wrote the first track, "Your Kind Of Kindness" along with Bonnie and Jerry Allison, he is nowhere else to be found on It's Time, a project recorded in Macon, Georgia. This is Bonnie Bramlett with a little help from her friends, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Chuck Leavell, saxophone player Randall Bramblett, Big Bill Stewart, Eddie Hinton, Clydie King, Shirley Matthews and lots of others. This is Bonnie going deep into Cajun soul music with chirping horns and earthy guitars. Ivory Joe Hunter's "Since I Met You Baby" oozes authenticity with Tommy Talton's slide guitar and Chuck Leavall's keys. Even a cover of Jackie Wilson's smash "Higher & Higher" moves away from pop and gets immersed in Southern Rock and blues. And a modern instrument like Tom Ridgeway's ARP Synthesizer does nothing to change that. This is probably the artistic album Janis Joplin wanted to make, free from the constraints of a Top 40 mentality. The same year, Stone The Crows' Maggie Bell put out Queen Of The Night produced by Jerry Wexler in New York. The similarities - and differences - in these two albums by women whose voices shake the foundations of everything in their path, are worth studying. While Joplin electrified the Kozmic Blues with a touch of psychedelia five years earlier, Bonnie Bramlett takes the Gregg and Janice Allman title "Oncoming Traffic and creates a subtle explosion utilizing traditional sounds. From sweet to violent, Chuck Leavell on piano, Gregg Allman on organ, the result is mesmerizing. That the Allman Brothers enormous popularity, coupled with the success of Delaney & Bonnie did not propel It's Time to a more solid place in rock history is a mystery. Bonnie Bramlett is so much more than the gal on Roseanne's TV show - and these ten titles speak with an authority that Etta James' legion of fans have come to embrace. It's Time is a treasure ripe to be discovered by a new generation of blues enthusiasts, the title track just a magnificent and powerful work of art.
**********
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
William Ruhlmann
Bonnie Bramlett is an R&B/rock singer. She moved to Memphis in the early '60s and became a session and backup singer for R&B and blues performers such as Fontella Bass and Albert King. She then became a member of the Ikettes, the backup singers for Ike & Tina Turner. That brought her to Los Angeles in 1967, where she met Delaney Bramlett, who had been a member of the Shindogs, the resident group on the TV show Shindig; they married within five days and formed a musical act, Delaney and Bonnie. Delaney and Bonnie cut an album for Stax Records in Memphis, backed by Booker T. and the MG's, but it was not released at first. They then formed a group called Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, who featured Leon Russell among others, and cut Accept No Substitute (1969). After Delaney and Bonnie and Friends toured opening for Blind Faith, Eric Clapton left that group and joined them along with such notables as George Harrison and Dave Mason. This resulted in the On Tour album, after which members of the Friends band worked with Clapton and Harrison, and on Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Delaney and Bonnie made several more albums before divorcing. Bramlett then formed the Bonnie Bramlett Band and released her debut solo album, Sweet Bonnie Bramlett, backed by the Average White Band, in 1973. She then signed to Capricorn Records and made It's Time (1975), Lady's Choice (1976), and Memories (1978). She later became a born-again Christian and began singing gospel music. She turned to acting in 1987, under the name Bonnie Sheridan, and has since appeared in the film The Doors and the TV series Rosanne. In 2002 Bramlett returned to the music world with the release of her first album in over twenty years, I'm Still the Same on Audium. The record features Bramlett singing a variety of styles like jazz, blues, and adult contemporary in a voice that has lost little of its power.
**********
WIKIPEDIA
**********
WEBSITE
**********
TO THE TOP
********************
''IT'S TIME''
1974
38:13
**********
01 - Your Kind Of Kindness 03:44 (Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett)
02 - Atlanta, Georgia 02:49 (Bonnie Bramlett, Patsy Camp)
03 - It's Time 05:08 (Scott Boyer)
04 - Cover Me 03:54 (Eddie Hinton, Marlin Greene)
05 - Higher & Higher 02:16 (Carl Smith, Gary Jackson, Raymond Miner)
06 - Where You Come From 02:45 (Eddie Hinton, Jim Coleman)
07 - Cowboys And Indians 04:15 (Bobby Charles, Ben Keith)
08 - (Your Love Has Brought Me From A) Mighty Long Way 03:01 (Jackie Avery, Earl Simms, Carl McWilliams)
09 - Since I Met You Baby 03:04 (Ivory Joe Hunter)
10 - Oncoming Traffic 07:13 (Gregory Lenoir Allman, Janice B. Allman)
**********
Lagatha Beck Smallwood/Vocals
Scott Boyer/Guitar
Randall Bramblett/Saxophone
Bonnie Bramlett/Vocals
Dave Brown/Saxophone
Earl Ford/Trombone
Eddie Hinton/Guitar
Ricky Hirsch/Horn
Paul Hornsby/Keyboards
Jaimoe/Conductor
Clydie King/Vocals
Leo Labranche/Trumpet
Chuck Leavell/Piano
Sherlie Matthews/Vocals
Tom Ridgeway/Synthesizer
Johnny Sandlin/Guitar, Percussion
Bill Stewart/Drums
Tommy Talton/Guitar
Jerry Thompson/Drums
Kenny Tibbetts/Bass, Percussion
Butch Trucks/Conductor
Harold Williams/Saxophone
**********
REVIEW/AMG
Joe Viglione
Although Delaney Bramlett co-wrote the first track, "Your Kind Of Kindness" along with Bonnie and Jerry Allison, he is nowhere else to be found on It's Time, a project recorded in Macon, Georgia. This is Bonnie Bramlett with a little help from her friends, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Chuck Leavell, saxophone player Randall Bramblett, Big Bill Stewart, Eddie Hinton, Clydie King, Shirley Matthews and lots of others. This is Bonnie going deep into Cajun soul music with chirping horns and earthy guitars. Ivory Joe Hunter's "Since I Met You Baby" oozes authenticity with Tommy Talton's slide guitar and Chuck Leavall's keys. Even a cover of Jackie Wilson's smash "Higher & Higher" moves away from pop and gets immersed in Southern Rock and blues. And a modern instrument like Tom Ridgeway's ARP Synthesizer does nothing to change that. This is probably the artistic album Janis Joplin wanted to make, free from the constraints of a Top 40 mentality. The same year, Stone The Crows' Maggie Bell put out Queen Of The Night produced by Jerry Wexler in New York. The similarities - and differences - in these two albums by women whose voices shake the foundations of everything in their path, are worth studying. While Joplin electrified the Kozmic Blues with a touch of psychedelia five years earlier, Bonnie Bramlett takes the Gregg and Janice Allman title "Oncoming Traffic and creates a subtle explosion utilizing traditional sounds. From sweet to violent, Chuck Leavell on piano, Gregg Allman on organ, the result is mesmerizing. That the Allman Brothers enormous popularity, coupled with the success of Delaney & Bonnie did not propel It's Time to a more solid place in rock history is a mystery. Bonnie Bramlett is so much more than the gal on Roseanne's TV show - and these ten titles speak with an authority that Etta James' legion of fans have come to embrace. It's Time is a treasure ripe to be discovered by a new generation of blues enthusiasts, the title track just a magnificent and powerful work of art.
**********
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
William Ruhlmann
Bonnie Bramlett is an R&B/rock singer. She moved to Memphis in the early '60s and became a session and backup singer for R&B and blues performers such as Fontella Bass and Albert King. She then became a member of the Ikettes, the backup singers for Ike & Tina Turner. That brought her to Los Angeles in 1967, where she met Delaney Bramlett, who had been a member of the Shindogs, the resident group on the TV show Shindig; they married within five days and formed a musical act, Delaney and Bonnie. Delaney and Bonnie cut an album for Stax Records in Memphis, backed by Booker T. and the MG's, but it was not released at first. They then formed a group called Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, who featured Leon Russell among others, and cut Accept No Substitute (1969). After Delaney and Bonnie and Friends toured opening for Blind Faith, Eric Clapton left that group and joined them along with such notables as George Harrison and Dave Mason. This resulted in the On Tour album, after which members of the Friends band worked with Clapton and Harrison, and on Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Delaney and Bonnie made several more albums before divorcing. Bramlett then formed the Bonnie Bramlett Band and released her debut solo album, Sweet Bonnie Bramlett, backed by the Average White Band, in 1973. She then signed to Capricorn Records and made It's Time (1975), Lady's Choice (1976), and Memories (1978). She later became a born-again Christian and began singing gospel music. She turned to acting in 1987, under the name Bonnie Sheridan, and has since appeared in the film The Doors and the TV series Rosanne. In 2002 Bramlett returned to the music world with the release of her first album in over twenty years, I'm Still the Same on Audium. The record features Bramlett singing a variety of styles like jazz, blues, and adult contemporary in a voice that has lost little of its power.
**********
WIKIPEDIA
**********
WEBSITE
**********
TO THE TOP
********************
No comments :
Post a Comment