Linda Ronstadt - Prisoner in Disguise
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Free Music Review: My Favorite album of all time!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
When "I Will Always Love You" was released with "The Bodyguard" soundtrack I wanted to scream that this song had already been done and done TEN TIMES BETTER by Linda Ronstadt. Linda has it over most of today's pop and country artists by leaps and bounds. This album doesn't suffer with age. It is a timeless classic. While Linda's other albums may have been more popular than this one is her best. EVERY track on this album is FANTASTIC. Whether it is the beautifully eloquent version of Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross" or the wild and vibrant Lowell George tune "Roll Um Easy" (featuring the master himself playing the slide guitar!) Linda brings something new and exciting to each song that was previously released by others.
The best thing, though, about this album is the general feel that you get when you listen to the music and look at the album cover that it was produced by a group of people that were just getting together to make music and be creative together. All of the tracks are pure and clean without mechanical wizardry distorting them. Linda is not an artist that has ever needed special effects. Her voice is the real deal: powerful,electric, and simply beautiful.
Everyone else can eat their hearts out.
Free Music Review: Divas of Today should listen to this album for pointers!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have been a Linda Ronstadt fan since I was 15 years old (I'm now 38.) The song that I usually mention to the uninitiated when speaking of Linda is "I Will Always Love You," from this album. Linda sings it with much more emotion than a certain other singer ever hoped to muster in her version. (And no, I'm not speaking of Dolly Parton!)Several of the songs on the album were hits ("Heat Wave," "Love is a Rose," "Tracks of My Tears," and "The Sweetest Gift"), but in my opinion, "I Will Always Love You" is the biggest reason to get this album.
Free Music Review: Forever A Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
If for only the song "Prisoner in Disguise" which Linda sings with the writer (JD Souther) this cd is worth having. One of my all-time favorite songs, and albums. (JD hasn't recorded "Prisoner" to-date, so this is the only version I know of). But the rest of it is great too. Thanks to the previous reviewer for his deserving words about Linda, she is the best.Free Music Review: A must-have country-rock classic
Hit: 5 Stars
Along with The Eagles, Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris, and the Byrds, Linda Ronstadt pioneered the fusion and integration of country music and rock music. Seemingly forgotten by contemporary radio and music fans, her influence can be heard on nearly every radio station in the country. Ronstadt's impressive career ranged from Afro-Cuban to mariachi to pop standards to rock & roll to blues to country and everything in between. One needs only listen to contemporary country singers Terri Clark (who turned out an exact duplicate of Ronstadt's hit "It's So Easy" recently) or Trisha Yearwood, the Dixie Chicks or Martina McBride to hear the legacy of Linda Ronstadt. Her innovation and genre-hopping vocal skills influenced countless numbers of today's performers. So if you want to hear Trisha and Martina's lineage, check out "Prisoner in Disguise," and you will realize how pale a shadow they cast in relation to Linda's. "Prisoner in Disguise" is a genre-bending, radio-defying, gutsy romp that picks you up, carries you along, and never lets you down. Ronstadt -- at the peak of her long and successful career at the time of this recording -- doesn't miss so much as a note on this album. Fans of all kinds of music with all kinds of sensibilities will find absolute perfection here. Her song choices, her phrasing, her inflection, her raw vocal abilities are all on spectacular display, under the sure-handed leaderhip of producer Peter Asher. From the anthemic opener, Neil Young's "Love is a Rose," to the gospel-laced "Many Rivers to Cross," from the hard rocking Rolling Stones-cover "Roll Um Easy," to the sensitive, gently touching version of James Tayor's "Jukebox," Ronstadt thumbs her nose at the conventional wisdom that to be successful a singer must do one thing and do it well. Linda does all things better than anybody.