hypersongs

Close to You

Her 1981 album for Kaleidoscope, with Tony Rice, Darol Anger and Norton Buffalo among the players.
Kate Wolf, 1981

Close to You was produced by Bill Griffin and Tom Diamant, who ran the independent Kaleidoscope label with Jeff Alexson, with Griffin as musical director, Bill Wolf recording and mixing and George Horn mastering at Fantasy Studios. The recording studio and dates are not stated. Besides Wolf on vocals, guitar and piano, the players are Nina Gerber on guitar, mandolin and harmony vocal, Ford James on electric bass, Tony Rice on guitar and harmony vocal, Darol Anger on violin, Norton Buffalo on harmonica, Daniel Jones and Peter Siegel on pedal steel, and Tom Lackner on drums. Rhino reissued it in 1994, and Owl in 2020.

Wikipedia dates it to 1980 while the official site says 1981. In the liner notes the KSAN program director Bob Young wrote that she sings from scratch.

Track listing

  1. Across the Great Divide
  2. Leggett Serenade
  3. Like a River
  4. Unfinished Life
  5. Friend of Mine
  6. Love Still Remains
  7. Eyes of a Painter
  8. Here in California
  9. Stone in the Water
  10. Close to You

Sources

  1. Close to You, katewolf.com
  2. Kate Wolf albums, katewolf.com