Love, Lose, Repeat

Love, Lose, Repeat

Track Listings

1. Home

2. Jean

3. Home Again

4. Busy

5. Calls You

6. Both Sides Now

7. Not This One

8. Always Our Children

9. New Heart

10. Lines On My Finger

11. If I Needed You

12. Snow Storm Blues

13. When You Wish Upon a Star/Someone To Watch Over Me

Editorial Reviews
Singer Magazine, March 2004
"[like] hearing a weather forecast for a bright and sunny tomorrow though it be damp and dreary today."

Product Description
Recognized in folk circles for her incredible voice and intelligent songwriting since the mid 90's, Michigan-based Terry Gonda held back on releasing a full length album until she believed her performance and outlook on life had ripened sufficiently. The results can be heard on her first CD, "love, lose, repeat", and the strategy appears to have worked.

Singer magazine states "Terry is in fine voice serving up songs with heart and soul backed by an almost magical acoustical accompaniment. This is a very well produced CD with a strong, commercial sound. Terry's songwriting is solid as she spins lyrical adventures that run through love stories and songs of hope." While the title may seem a bit cynical, "love, lose, repeat" is actually an homage to the many faces and cycles of love in our life. It acknowledges that loss is an inevitable part of the journey, but is not the end.

The CD runs the gamut of traditional/celtic inspired folk, story songs, blues, torch, and pop. Cover tracks include Karla Bonoff's "Home", Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now", Townes Van Zant's "If I Needed You", and a medley of "When You Wish Upon a Star/Someone to Watch Over Me", which Singer Magazine claims is "worth the price of admission alone".

What lifts this album above the rest is Terry's remarkable vocal performance, which moves so naturally from insightful folk to humor to torch to pop and inspirational music. She's been described as having "the voice of an angel" (Tony Cummings, CrossRhythms magazine) and producing vocal performances that are "positively lucid ... intoxicating" (Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press).

The album features Caroline Aiken on backing vocals, Straight Ahead bass player Marion Hayden, and Detroit multi-instrumentalist David Mosher on guitar, bass, fiddle, mandolin, shaker egg and backing vocals.

Love, Lose, Repeat

Love, Lose, Repeat,Terry Gonda,What Key? Music,Intoxicating lush vocals, solid songwriting & captivating covers backed by an almost magical acoustical accompaniment. A vibrant sung tapestry woven of beautiful, intelligent & well-produced folk,pop,country,torch & blues celebrating the cycle of love.

Love, Lose, Repeat
Average customer rating:

Exquisite and Sublime

Terry blows me away...

Fantastic soulful voice

Love, Lose, Repeat
Terry Gonda
Manufacturer: What Key? Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001RZG9M
Release Date: 2004-03-01

Tracks:

Home
Jean
Home Again
Busy
Calls You
Both Sides Now
Not This One
Always Our Children
New Heart
Lines On My Finger
If I Needed You
Snow Storm Blues
When You Wish Upon a Star/Someone To Watch Over Me

Album Description

Recognized in folk circles for her incredible voice and intelligent songwriting since the mid 90's, Michigan-based Terry Gonda held back on releasing a full length album until she believed her performance and outlook on life had ripened sufficiently. The results can be heard on her first CD, "love, lose, repeat", and the strategy appears to have worked.

Customer Reviews:

Exquisite and Sublime.......2005-08-31

To try to review "Love, Lose, Repeat" by Terry Gonda is a difficult thing to attempt in the few short lines available here. It is an expansive album in genre, mood, musicianship, and character, and it is pure pleasure from the first track to the last.

I believe Terry Gonda has one of the finest voices I have heard in my eclectic musical collection. In a time where so many female singers voice their music as variations on a theme, her voice is singularly unique in its power, its depth, its range, and its versatility. Her voice is tonally beautiful and rich in expression; her soundscape compliments it in every way. Across the range of songs and styles on this album, you feel genuine emotion and soul in each lyric sung, and you find yourself skipping back at the end of tracks only to hear it again.

The songs chosen for the album are wide ranging in style and substance, though none could be characterized as without depth. Some feel lighter but not without meaning; others are filled with a beauty that makes you feel you are living them. Other have commented on the richness of the cover of "When You Wish Upon a Star/ Someone to Watch Over Me," and it is noteworthy to say the least. It is also worth mentioning that she also chose to cover "Both Sides Now," a Joni Mitchell standard that many a lesser performer would be a bit afraid to try. Gonda brings a staggering level of emotion and tenderness to the song that (at the risk of sounding sacrilegious to other Joni Mitchell fans) moves me in ways more powerfully than the original.

The song choices from other songwriters are perhaps less instantly recognizably but no less powerfully owned by Gonda. "If I Needed You" is brought to a wonderful life in a duet with great flavor and character. "Home Again" is one of the most beautiful expressions of love in song, and Gonda's voice carries it beautifully. Gonda's own songs, such as "Calls You," the exquisite "Jean," "Lines on My Finger," and "Busy" only make you wish for a double album which features more of her own pen. She is a studied songwriter, and her poetry in lyric is delightful and quick. From the hopefulness of "Calls You" to the heartbreak of "Lines," she writes with a distinct and singular power, and a classic folk song ability to pull you into the song in the first few lines.

Thematically, the songs on the album are linked by different facets of love, different poetic expressions of the same word, the same idea. I can think of no better word to describe how a listener feels for this album after the last track plays.

Terry blows me away..........2004-04-04

I've heard this album develop over the years and Terry has hit it spot on this time. Calls you and Home again are my two favorites. I think it can be said that love overcomes all things is the theme of this album. I guarantee if you buy this album you will fall in love with Terry's voice and it'll leave you wanting more.

Fantastic soulful voice.......2004-03-31

I have to admit that I'm not a great folk fan but this album could convert me. Terry Gonda has a pure smoky voice not too dissimilar to Eva Cassidy crossed with Karen Carpenter. This is a wonderful mixture of torch songs, blues and folk and the standout track on the album has to be her cover of "When you wish upon a star" segued into "Somone to Watch Over Me" - like Somewhere over the Rainbow on the Songbird album, this stands out as a beautiful and original cover. Other favourites are If I Needed You and Lines on My Finger - a truly heartbreaking song.

Terry manages to fill each song with emotion - you can hear when she's smiling as she sings and it makes this album an emotional journey.

She's an undiscovered gem who deserves to be brought into the public eye. I totally recommend this....

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