Carol Kleyn - Love Has Made Me Stronger
Posted on January 16, 2006 by hcrink
I suppose this record would not be everyone's "cup of tea". I imagine some people would say - "but she can't play an instrument or sing very well" - and they would technically be correct. All I know is that there are far too many people making music who are supposedly "good" at it for me to waste my time listening to the music of the skilled.
Which brings us to lovely Carol. According to the back of her lp it was Bobby Brown (the hippy, not the crackhead) who gave her a harp & "the courage" to make her music her way. Now, I suppose people of lesser stuff might not take such advice from a hippy one-man-band, but luckily for us she did and left us the riches of this majestic album.
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10 Comments to “Carol Kleyn - Love Has Made Me Stronger”
My Mom gave me “Love Has Made Me Stronger” and “takin’ the time” a few years ago and I have loved them. They’re both signed, one dated 1982 from the Sawdust festival. I think her music is very sweet and honest and I’m glad to know of this obscure folk singer.
the Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach?
Yes, the Laguna Beach Sawdust festival. My mom got “Love Has Made Me Stronger” at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire several years earlier. She was out at the entrance singing and playing.
Renaissance Pleasure Fair?
check out the review of this LP at: http://www.lysergia.com/AcidArchives/index.htm
I would like to talk with hcrink about his “clean” version of the title track — When I inherited the album, it was in poor shape. I think Carol is now living in WA and would like to contact her about paying for a good, “clean” version of “takin’ the time”…and anything else she might have done in the last few decades.
I bought the vinyl LP in ‘77. Sweet, but hard to understand the high notes. Carol, do you have that on CD, as well as your newer stuff? Pls. e-mail me and let me know
please e-mail me questions about carol at kellybk@gmail.com. I can forward your e-mails onto her, she’s my mom.
I heard Carol on a warm summer day in 1977 at the Renisance Faire in Calabasas/Thousand Oaks area of CA. She was sitting on a blanket, in the shade under a California Live Oak just outside the entrance to the faire. As one approached, her voice soared above the noise of the crowd, and I remember thinking “how clever the faire organizers were for putting her there to set the mood and time for this event.” Her voice still lingers in my head 30 years after.
Thank you Carol!
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I just found the vinyl in my record collection. She signed it and I was supposed to send her $5 in 1977 but never did. I would love to be able to do so. She left the address of 1747 Sunset in Seattle.