01 - Give Yourself To Love
02 - Desert Wind
03 - Ballad of Weaverville
04 - These Times We're Living In
05 - Medicine Wheel
06 - Pacheco - Redtail Hawk
07 - Some Kind of Love
I'm interested in your musical influences.
I have to say that it probably started with the Weavers and led into Rosemary Clooney. I started out with singers that you could hear the words. That's been the big influence. Then I got into writers. Dylan is a big influence and of course the Beatles happened and folk music was always kind of there in the background. I got interested in folk music out of the Kingston Trio stuff and the Weavers. I wanted to know more about it. Once I got interested in folk music and started going to libraries I started finding out about country music. Then I discovered the Carter Family. Then when I got into country music radio, by then I was starting to discover Merle Haggard and Lefty Frizel and people like that. I used to listen to Hank Williams as a kid. So it's kind of been a progression through honest songs and honest singers, that kind of clarity. I love Buffy St. Marie's work. I love listening to people like Stevie Winwood. I guess it's that heart that's out there.
Poets?
Poets that I read? Well, I always liked ... I never wrote poetry as a kid or anything but I used to read Whitman and then I got into Garcia Lorca when I was in my "Spanish period." I read contemporary poetry if it's the poem that gets me. I'm into imagery. I'm really a frustrated painter. It really isn't so much a question of whose work it is as what kind of pictures it paints and what kind of things it says. If you looked at my bookshelf you'd probably find things. I like Gary Snyder's work. I like Robert Bly's work. Alice Walker. Those are all pretty contemporary. Looking back over the years ... like I said there was this sort of a numb period when I wasn't really doing much except making dinner parties and sewing clothes and baking bread so I can't remember really a lot about poetry. At that time I was mostly listening to Sixties radio which was just filled with poets. Everybody and their brother practically. Probably this will all occur to me later. But as far as writing goes, the structure of how I write, I never thought about it being poetry too much. I just sort of followed the models of the folk and country stuff. I write a lot from visual imagery. I write a lot from stimulation and reading other people's things.
From: https://www.katewolf.com/interviews
