Linda Ronstadt - Linda Ronstadt
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Music CD Cover Artist: Linda Ronstadt Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 1995-04-04 Music Label: Capitol |
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Free Music Notes for Linda Ronstadt Album
Free Music Review: Back when Linda hadn't learned how to rock yet
Hit: 4 Stars
In 1971, it had been about 2 years since the Stone Poneys broke up and their leader Linda Ronstadt went solo. Her first solo album HAND SOWN...HOME GROWN (1969) didn't get much attention, but her second SILK PURSE (1970) generated a minor hit single with the moving ballad "Long, Long Time", which could show her detractors that Linda wasn't all about vocal histrionics and she could be beautifully mellow when she wanted to be. Indeed, before her breakthrough album HEART LIKE A WHEEL (1974), Linda concentrated more on the softer aspects of her voice with country and folk songs. Those who know Linda as a slightly gravel-voiced rocker will be surprised to hear her 1971 self-titled album, where there's very few rockers to be heard. 15 years before she collaborated with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the acclaimed TRIO project, Linda was a good-hearted country girl on songs like Johnny Cash's classic "I Still Miss Someone", Patsy Cline's signature song "I Fall To Pieces" and Ray Price's early hit "Crazy Arms". It would have been interesting had Linda become a strictly country-based artist like Dolly or Emmylou, because she could have easily been as legendary as those two. But Linda wasn't all about covering proven classics. She had a keen ear for some up-and-coming songwriters as well. Livingston Taylor's (James' younger brother) "In My Reply", Eric Kaz's "I Won't Be Hangin' 'Round", Eric Andersen's "I Ain't Always Been Faithful", Jackson Browne's "Rock Me On The Water" (his debut solo album was only months away) and Neil Young's "Birds" (recorded live) work out just as well as the better-known classics, and except for maybe the latter two, all of them have Linda sounding like they were written especially for her. Of course, not every song on here works. Leadbelly's blues classic "Ramblin' 'Round" doesn't quite work out as an acoustic showcase, and would have been better recorded after Linda had found the rocker within her. Fontella Bass' soul standard "Rescue Me" (another live-recorded track) has been attempted by God-knows how many singers, and although Linda gives it her best shot, she can't even approach the joyful soul of the Bass original. After hearing the fantastic SIMPLE DREAMS (1977), I thought Linda Ronstadt couldn't possibly get any better than that great piece of work. But I realized that was when she was clearly becoming more acquainted with rock, and I hadn't given her earlier, more obscure days a fair shot. So when I ordered LINDA RONSTADT off of Amazon (it's rather hard to find in stores around my town), I expected to not be as impressed as I was with SIMPLE DREAMS. Now that I've witnessed both sides of Linda Ronstadt as we all wish to know her best (as a mainstream singer, not singing Gilbert & Sullivan), LINDA RONSTADT is an album that will be good to listen to for those who thought she was all about ruining rock classics (which she has never done, by the way).