There's a collection which is really good. "Sweet forgiveness" was a classic. All the early ones are good though. Incidentally, if you're a podcast fan, there's one of the Bob Lefsetz letters raving about early Bonnie which reactivated my interest in her. Incidentally, I saw her singing backup with Little Feat in 89 and she was terrific, though in a career low at that time.

Is a great place to start. Solid, glorious collection of unvarnished talent. Highlights the opener 'Give it Up or Let Me Go' and 'Love Me Like a Man' which she performed in a Whistle Test session that turned me on to her in the first place:

but if you see her on the OGWT DVD and download 'Too long at the Fair', it's a marvelous, beautiful thing.

..apart from that, what Twango said.
(Always a good excuse to play this..)

reminds me a little of a female Paul Rogers or Lowell George - effortlesssly soulful. Along with Dusty Springfield and Sandy Denny she may be may be my favourite white female singer.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure her material is always the strongest. You stay for the voice but much of her material musically is kind of standard issue AOR.

I came to her rather late - probably early 90s when I heard the title track of "Nick of Time" on FM radio in the States. I don't have a huge number of her albums - but I did pick up "Taking My Time" (released '73) on that Stateside trip - and it was a regular on the Walkman. Particularly, "I Gave My Love a Candle".

It's on Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/02FWxDBvPwVNDvDL2CvqsW

as is a great deal of her early work. Think I'll have a dip in myself!

is a great place to start and the Luck of the Draw and in the Nick of time albums are the ones that gained her a more widespread audience. Some of her own material can be slight but she is a master interpreter - witness the best ever version of 'dimming of the day' and a superlative cover of ' Angel from Montgomery'.

I discovered Bonnie through the Home Plate album. Happy days indeed.

...her cover of Jackson Browne's 'My Opening Farewell', from 1977.

Hi, i'd like to invite you all to my fansite of Bonnie at www.soulsalike.nl There's much info about her. See you there ! Greetings from Holland, Eric