El pasado viernes se nos fue... James Taylor lo acaba de firmar: “Valerie Carter, una de las mejores voces de su generación”. Una voz de verdad, que te hace sentir la vida, la música, el sentimiento profundo. Empezó en el grupo folk-rock Howdy Moon con la producción de su amigo Lowell George (Little Feat) y grabó dos discos para rematar la década de los setenta con los mejores músicos y artistas posibles: Jackson Browne, Little Feat, John Sebastian, Ernie Watts, Herb Pedersen, John Hall, Toto, James Newton-Howard, Chuck Rainey, Earth, Wind & Fire, etc. Las máximas figuras cantaron a dúo con ella: James Taylor, Randy Newman, Christopher Cross, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris... Steve Winwood como voz del letrista Will Jennings (“Street Life”) grabó aquel lamento inolvidable titulado “Valerie”...
...So cool, she was like
Jazz on a summer's day
Music, high and sweet
Then she just blew away
Now she can't be that warm
With the wind in her arms
Valerie, call on me
Call on me, Valerie
Come and see me
I'm the same boy I used to be
Love songs fill the night
But they don't tell it all
Not how lovers cry out
Just like they're dying
Her cries hang there, in time, somewhere
Someday, some good wind
May blow her back to me
Some night I may hear
Her like she used to be
No it can't be that warm
With the wind in her arms
DISCO 1 STEVE WINWOOD Valerie (Cara 1 Corte 1)
DISCO 2 VALERIE CARTER Ooh Child (JUST A STONE’S THROW AWAY - 1)
DISCO 3 HOWDY MOON And You Never Knew (Cara 2 Corte 1)
DISCO 4 VALERIE CARTER After The Gold Rush (MIDNIGHT OVER HONEY RIVER - DISC 1 - 7)
DISCO 5 CHRISTOPHER CROSS & VALERIE CARTER Spinning (3)
DISCO 6 EDDY MONEY & VALERIE CARTER let’s Be Lovers Again (7)
DISCO 7 HENRY PAUL & VALERIE CARTER Heat Of The Night (Cara 2 Corte 2)
DISCO 8 JACK WAGNER & VALERIE CARTER Love Can Take Us All The Way (Cara 2 Corte último)
DISCO 9 VALERIE CARTER Crazy (WILD CHILD - 1)
DISCO 10 RANDY NEWMAN & VALERIE CARTER Heaven Is My Home (MICHAEL - 4)
DISCO 11 VALERIE CARTER Trying To Get To You (WILD CHILD - 9)
DISCO 12 VALERIE CARTER & Jackson Browne Love Needs A Heart (THE WAY IT IS - 2)
DISCO 13 Carole King, Bonnie Raitt, VALERIE CARTER & Rosemary Butler Lotta Love (NICOLETTE LARSON... - 1)
DISCO 14 VALERIE CARTER So, So Happy (JUST A STONE’S THROW AWAY - 5)
