Close to You

by Kate Wolf

Close to You cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Kaleidoscope
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:50
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded live in a remarkably intimate studio setting, 'Close to You' captures the Californian folk icon at her most emotionally resonant. Kate Wolf's crystalline vocals and gentle acoustic guitar picking deliver deeply poignant, introspective ballads that reflect the vast, natural beauty of the American West.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, mountains, female-vocals, acoustic, folk, melodic, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Across the Great Divide (4:19)
  2. Leggett Serenade (4:58)
  3. Like a River (4:28)
  4. Unfinished Life (5:09)
  5. Friend of Mine (3:52)
  6. Love Still Remains (4:17)
  7. Eyes of a Painter (4:13)
  8. Here in California (5:36)
  9. Stone in the Water (3:00)
  10. Close to You (5:55)

Credits

  • Kate Wolf - primary artist, words by, music by, vocals, twelve-string guitar, vocals, guitar, vocals, piano
  • Ford James - music by, electric bass, harmony vocals, electric bass
  • Nina Gerber - music by, lead guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, lead guitar, guitar [high string], harmony vocals, lead guitar, twelve-string guitar
  • Norton Buffalo - harmonica
  • Tony Rice - harmony vocals, harmony vocals, guitar
  • Tom Lackner - drums, percussion
  • Peter K. Siegel - pedal steel guitar
  • Tom Lee - acoustic bass

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