Marti Jones, “Chance of a Lifetime”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdH6U3XQ3kI
I’ve had this song running through my head but couldn’t quite remember the artist’s name until it hit me just now, kept thinking Marty Stuart, he of the cowboy paraphernalia and bequeathed B-benders. Couldn’t even search the title because it is buried beneath other works with the same title.

Oh ho---didn't get as far as Match Game, which I should rectify, sounds like; did enjoy the debut, which I bought after reading xgau's take:

Unsophisticated Time [A&M, 1985]
Suggesting both Dusty Springfield's breathy yearning and Karen Carpenter's AM plainstyle, Jones is a Bonnie Ronstadt for the local-band era--a nonwriter ready to raid the enormous store of good songs only pop cultists have ever heard. Of course, in the CHR era her audience may never get beyond pop cultists, which would be doubly unjust: it's bad enough when a dB's album leads off with two Peter Holsapple sure shots and stiffs, but this record leads off with two Peter Holsapple sure shots and then goes on to mine Richard Barone, Elvis Costello, even producer-svengali Don Dixon. And topping them all is a loony vow of romantic devotion called "Follow You All Over the World," by one B. Simpson. Wonder how many more B. Simpsons have hidden such stuff away on their demo cassettes. (Please do not mail tapes to The Voice; Donald Dixon c/o A&M Records, 595 Madison Avenue, will do fine.) A-

i'll see you and raise you "always," a self-penned tune from an even later album. this is *such* a beautiful song. if axl got his hands on it and turned it into a proper power ballad it would propel him back into the top ten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9O_s22eZBo

gosh that song destroys me.