By The Fireside
MISC NOTES: Released as part of Bear Family Records' Velvet Lounge series.
- Couldn't Believe It Was True
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- If Raindrops Were Kisses
- Honeycomb
- Slowly
- My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
- Down By the Riverside
- I Really Don't Want to Know
- I Forgot to Remember to Forget
- You Win Again
- I Don't Hurt Anymore
- Singing the Blues
- Your Cheatin' Heart
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- Go Back You Fool
LOCATION: Hollywood
RECORDING PERSONNEL:
RECORDING STUDIO: RCA Victor
RECORDING ENGINEER: Don Robertson (producer)
FORMAT: CD
DISC NOTES: "For several sessions in 1959, Bonnie and her friend, songwriter and producer Don Robertson, holed up in RCA Victor's Hollywood studios in an unusual experiment: recording Bonnie's voice with solo guitar accompaniment. The repertoire ranged from standards, some of which she'd been singing for years in clubs, to new originals, and a couple of Roberson's own classics. Why were these tracks recorded? Bonnie says they were master sessions, though such informality was virtually unprecedented in 1959 (even Johnny Mathis's Open Fire: Two Guitars had a second guitar and a bass). Bonnie's By the Fireside includes 15 of the songs Bonnie and Don recorded back then, which are available here for the first time."