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Bonnie J Gordon

All journeys of the heart are journeys in a spiral

About Me

Bonnie started studying music at age four and wrote her first songs when she was 10 years old. She went to The High School of Performing Arts and the Juilliard School for acting, and got a Master's degree in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop before finally setting her sights on a music career when she moved to Berlin in 1992. After touring extensively for several years, she met her husband on a meditation weekend in Germany and began a spiritual journey that changed her songwriting from considerations of unrequited love to messages of universal meaning. In 2003 she went to Los Angeles to record an album with world-class musicians, including Jim Cox (Ringo Starr, Mark Knopfler), Greg Liesz (Joni Mitchell, Sheryl Crow) and Dan Higgins (Vonda Shepard), among others. But before she could finish the recording, a long-hoped-for dream came true: Bonnie became a mother. After a few years' break to bring up her daughter, Bonnie completed the LA album - now titled "Spiral" - in Munich.
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Music:

Member Since: 5/29/2005
Band Website: bonniejgordon.com
Band Members: Dave Carpenter (double bass) Jim Cox (piano, Fender, Hammond, string arrangements) Bonnie Gordon (guitar, vocals) Dan Higgins (flutes) Munyungo Jackson (percussion) Greg Liesz (pedal steel) Heitor Pereira (Spanish guitar) String quartet: Peter Kent, Joel Derouin, Bob Becker, Larry Corbett
Influences: Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Tori Amos, James Taylor, Bruce Hornsby, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elton John, Billy Joel, Bonnie Raitt, Chris Whitley, Ani DiFranco, Mark Knopfler, Janis Ian, Crosby Stills & Nash, Eva Cassidy, Eric Clapton, Patty Larkin, Rio Reiser, Jackson Browne, Sheryl Crow, Fiona Apple, Melissa Manchester, Pete Seeger, Cat Stevens
Sounds Like: Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Tori Amos, James Taylor, Bruce Hornsby, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elton John, Billy Joel, Bonnie Raitt, Chris Whitley, Ani DiFranco, Mark Knopfler, Janis Ian, Crosby Stills & Nash, Eva Cassidy, Eric Clapton, Patty Larkin, Rio Reiser, Jackson Browne, Sheryl Crow, Fiona Apple, Melissa Manchester, Pete Seeger, Cat Stevens
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Sweet sixteen

Last year on January 20 I had spent a third of my life in Germany. This year it's a little less than that in terms of percentages - but it's my sweet sixteen.I've been wanting to write about how midli...
Posted by Bonnie J Gordon on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:41:00 PST

That didn’t take long

Well, kids, I never dreamed a decision to stop fantasizing about stardom for a year of my life would lead to this.One of the first effects of mentally disciplining myself to drop the excitement level ...
Posted by Bonnie J Gordon on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:21:00 PST

I met JT!

I can hardly believe it - last year I was doing a straw poll of my fans to ask them which song of mine they could imagine James Taylor singing, and today I actually met him, gave him a copy of "Spiral...
Posted by Bonnie J Gordon on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:25:00 PST

Don’t Know What - new song

 I wrote a song yesterday for the first time since my daughter Lilith, now almost 4, was a couple of months old.Thank Goddess.I played it again today and it's all right. It will find a nice place...
Posted by Bonnie J Gordon on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:58:00 PST

Birthday blog entry

I'm 46 years old today, and ever since I found out about oxytocin earlier this year I've been wondering about what really matters in life.Oxytocin is a hormone. It gets released into the brain when yo...
Posted by Bonnie J Gordon on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:01:00 PST

Whale-Mouth Music

My daughter Lilith has been watching "Finding Nemo" every day this week. It was the first movie she ever watched from beginning to end, when we got the DVD last November or so. Then for a long while i...
Posted by Bonnie J Gordon on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:01:00 PST

MyStore for "Spiral"

Well kids, the moon has awoken and will grow in power for the next six months, and I have opened up a MyStore to begin selling my album "Spiral" online. I can hardly describe my excitement or my grate...
Posted by Bonnie J Gordon on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:48:00 PST

LINER NOTES TO "SPIRAL"

All journeys of the heart are journeys in a spiral. You leave home to explore the new, or just to leave behind the old - and then when you return, you are at a different level. When I began writing...
Posted by Bonnie J Gordon on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:01:00 PST

Recent successes

Slowly but surely things are looking up. I entered a contest to have my album released in Germany and to tour with a well-known German artist, and I've made it into the quarter-finals. And I've made i...
Posted by Bonnie J Gordon on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:42:00 PST

Please read

I know I haven't written in a very long time - so busy with work that will keep the family afloat financially - but I saw this on a blog from a radio DJ in Inverness, Scotland and just had to post it ...
Posted by Bonnie J Gordon on Sun, 20 May 2007 01:44:00 PST