If I Be Your Lady

If I Be Your Lady is the debut studio album by songwriter-performer Carol Hall, released in 1971 on Elektra Records. It showcases Hall’s talents not only as a lyricist but as a singer and composer, bringing a distinctive voice of wit, warmth, and emotional directness to a folk-pop singer-songwriter context. The album blends modestly arranged acoustic instrumentation with Hall’s clever lyrical sensibility, offering a personal, intimate showcase of her songs before many of them were more widely recorded or performed by others.

The album includes early versions of songs that would later become part of Hall’s broader legacy, such as “Jenny Rebecca” and “If I Be Your Lady”—works that illustrate her early compositional voice and narrative instincts as a catalog of songs rooted in story and melody.

Read an excellent write-up of If I Be Your Lady on Perfect Sound Forever.