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1. Mercy
2. Be With You
3. Looking For You
4. Done Died
5. Poor Man's Melody
6. Broken
7. Too Late
8. Ain't Who I Was
9. Not Cause I Wanted To
10. You Will Be Loved
The record is called Aint Who I Was because Im not the same person I was, personally or musically, says Bishop. I was at a point where I just didnt know anymore. I didnt even have a vision, and this amazing producer came alongside me and believed in me and pulled my voice back out and made me get back up and sing.[Cobb] knew that I had a deep story that I wanted to tell and he really helped me do that, Bishop says. Its a story of transformation, expressed in lyrics of longing, loss, loneliness and finally, resurrection. Cobb picked six songs from her list of 36, including six she co-wrote, and they found four more. One is Done Died, a spiritual he discovered on YouTube, sung by an old Mississippi bluesman named Boyd Rivers. Cobb had been saving it for someone special; when she heard it, she cried.
Its only a matter of time until Hollywood snaps up the story of how singer-songwriter Bonnie Bishop connected with Dave Cobb, one of the hottest producers in the business, to unlock her inner soul singer and record the best album of her career: Aint Who I Was. Before landing with Cobb, whose credits include Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson, Bishop had thrown in the towel on her country-leaning career, too frustrated, beat-up and broke to go on after 13 years, five albums and one failed marriage. It landed on the rag pile despite monogramming by her idol, Bonnie Raitt, who recorded a Bishop/Big Al Anderson co-write on her comeback album, Slipstream. The song, Not Cause I Wanted To, topped the New York Times year-end best-of list, then Slipstream won 2012s Best Americana Album Grammy. Bishop also popped onto iTunes country chart in 2013 with a song delivered by Connie Britton, the star of ABC-TVs hit series Nashville. Bonnie Bishop has been booked by Rootsy for a Scandinavian tour in November so we are releasing the physical to coincide.