Linda Ronstadt - The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt
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Free Music Notes for The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt
Free Music Review: PEOPLE DON'T GET IT - Ella Fitzgerald of ROCK!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Linda Ronstadt is the premier Rock Song Interpreter, like her pre-rock contemporary Ella Fitzgerald. Linda Ronstadt is A Female Rock Artist and, in many opinions, THE "First" Female Rock Superstar. Granted Grace Slick and Janis Joplin were rock stars prior, they never were able to establish a string of single songstress successes, i.e. Joplin died young and Slick played with a group, although successful, never grew to her full potential. Likewise, Joni Mitchell, although modestly popular never grasped the wave of commercial, critical success and public desire that Ronstadt enthused with her fans. Ronstadt "does" it all, granted her tremndous commercial and critical success between 1974 and 1982 allowed her the freedom to be the chameleon that she was and allowed her UNIQUE commercial success between 1982 and 1991.
This SET showcases those two eras.
However, this CD includes most of what in what is Volume 1 and 2, except for "How Do I make You" and "Desparado"
I would have liked them to throw in some live singles, i.e. "Alison" LIVE and the forementioned "How do I make you" and unreleased material contained her recently released Box Set.
Likewise, her "GET CLOSER" cd was tremendously rock and soul oriented and it would have been nice to include "Easy for you to Say", "I knew you when"
Otherwise, this compilation is Very Good.
The Sound and Quality are better than Volumes 1 and 2. Likewise, the order is not by date. So the songs that follow one another are approariate.
Personally, My favorites are "Hurt So Bad" "Long Long Time" and " Its So Easy"
Free Music Review: Reaffirms Ronstadt's Position As Master Interpreter
Hit: 5 Stars
While on occasion criticized for not writing her own material, Linda Ronstadt nonetheless became arguably the definitive interpretive singer, male or female, of the last three decades. While she started out as a country-rock singer, she never limited herself to that role--for every 'You're No Good' or 'Poor,Poor Pitiful Me', you had a Motown classic like 'Heatwave' or 'Tracks Of My Tears'(which in my estimation to this day still equals, if not surpasses, the original Miracles' classic). Along the way she made a few genre stops (new wave, mariachi, adult contemporary pop) before coming full circle in the late nineties. The compilation adds a few of her late-eighties duets with James Ingram and Aaron Neville not found on her two previous greatest hits cds, as well as several album cuts. Ultimately, this compilation reaffirms that few artists in recent times could match Ronstadt's overall first-rate body of work.Free Music Review: First Female Rock Superstar and All-Time Artist
Hit: 5 Stars
Anything Linda Ronstadt decides to sing we should be grateful for hearing. Because if we listen real close, we hear honesty and tremendous heart. Mainstream music is not geared to puncture this threshold. It's a true testament to Ronstadt's sheer stubbornness. What this "Very Best Of" collection shows us is that when Ronstadt was making her major mark on the massive global music business and sewing her style into the international conscienceness she was relentless. She took no prisoners and aimed at being the BEST FEMALE ROCK ARTIST of her time. However, this aim carries through to today.
It's no doubt that this restless singer went on to do many other musical styles. And eventhough Ms. Ronstadt tackled non-mainstream material throughout the 80's and 90's, she found a nitch in the international conscienceness once again and the mainstream public supported her.
What made Ms. Ronstadt a great interpretive Rock Singer was her roots and truth to tradition. This is why she is so good at every other style.
In all, whether she's singing rock, new wave, soul, mariachi, country, or nelson riddle the core of her work is all based on truth to the tune.
And that's what this "Very Best Of" CD is, GREAT TUNES..
Free Music Review: A Whole Lotta Linda
Hit: 5 Stars
Ever since she first burst onto the scene in 1967 with the folk-rock classic "Different Drum", Linda Ronstadt has proven herself to be one of the most influential female singers in pop music history. She has essayed so many different styles of music that it is jaw-dropping: big-band jazz, operetta, Mexican mariachi, Puccini, Latin jazz.This new compilation album from Rhino focuses on twenty-one of Linda's best performances in the pop/country-rock arena, where the native Arizonan is second-to-none. A Nineties audience not familiar with the increasingly reclusive pop diva may only know her from the praise heaped upon her by such current stars as Trisha Yearwood and Sheryl Crow, but one listen to this CD will let one know what those two ladies were talking about. For here, we get to hear Linda maneuver her way through Motown ("Ooh Baby Baby"; "The Tracks Of My Tears"; "Heat Wave"), rockabilly ("When Will I Be Loved"; "That'll Be The Day"), the morbid black comedy of Warren Zevon ("Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me"), and the borderline bluegrass of Neil Young's "Love Is A Rose." And there are also the never-to-be-forgotten top-notch renditions Linda gave of "You're No Good" and "Blue Bayou."
Some may complain that a lot of Linda's best stuff has been left off ("Desperado", for instance), and such complaints would be understandable. After all, Linda has made way too many great songs in her lifetime. Still, this is an essential CD for those who have only heard Linda Ronstadt's name in passing. It proves that Linda is still a vital force in the music business. Rhino Records is to be congratulated for proving it.
Free Music Review: A Good overview
Hit: 4 Stars
Linda Ronstadt is a Artist that covers a wide range of styles.Her voice goes into so many directions here on this Very Best of Compilation.I always dug Her take on "Your'e No Good".I like Her Voice&always thought She was a Foxy Mama as well.this set truly captures the Stylings of Her as a Artist.