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: A Sonic Update and A Very Good Selection
Hit: 5 Stars
Linda Ronstadt has probably lived more musical styles than any one singer. This Rhino remastered product is a huge improvement over the greatest hits vol. #1 which I have. OK, the song selection isn't perfect, but I'll take it. My original greatest hits CD sounds muddy and too bassy, this Rhino product sparkles with sonic delight. The record sounded better than the original greatest hits which contains a caveat;(the source of this recording is inferior to the digital medium,all attempts were made to make the sound quality as good as possible). That shows it must have been a very early CD and not much was known about mastering, because Rhino makes the original tapes shine.
I find that in the early to mid Seventies, Linda was probably one of the best country singers who didn't call herself one. Her Band of Sneaky Pete Kleinow and Andrew Gold were a a great country rock unit. Her songs like "I Fall To Pieces", "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", "Willin'" and even the way a lot of songs presented here are much better and more country sounding than the Shania Twains and Faith Hills of today. Get it and enjoy the great quality update.
Free Music Review: Great Collection!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have enjoyed listening to Linda Ronstadt over the years and happy to still hear her songs on the radio today! I agree with most of the reviewers and do recommend this collection for casual fans. I already had her two greatest hits albums (1976 and 1980) and also have "Howl Like A Rainstorm...Cry Like The Wind" album, but still decided to buy this. I'm happy I did! Sure, hits are missing, but what is here is great and sounds great too!
Included are liner notes and pictures of Linda in color and B & W through her various stages of her life. Detailed song credits with chart positions are also here.
Free Music Review: Good compilation album
Hit: 5 Stars
Those of us who grew up in the 70's and 80's can remember how popular Linda Ronstadt was back then. Most of her big hits from that period are all here.Linda had a good singing voice, and often covered other people songs, in her own style. Who can foget her versions of "Heat Wave" (Martha and the Vandellas), "When Will I be Loved" (The Everlys),"Ooh Baby Baby" and "Tracks of my Tears" (both Smokey Robinson),"Just One Look"(Doris Troy),or "It's so Easy" and "That'll be the Day"(both Buddy Holly)?
This albums includes all those, and will bring plenty of memories back to quite a few people. Linda also supported such songwriters as Warren Zevon("Poor Pitiful Me"),giving them much needed exposure. The album also includes two duets with Aaron Neville, "All My Life" and the lovely "Don't Know Much", which deservedly won a Grammy.
None of her acclaimed work with jazz music (On three albums with Nelson Riddle),nor with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris is included. Nor from her Spanish language albums, either. This album would probably had to have been a double cd to include those. Otherwise, this is a good single "best of".
Free Music Review: One of Popular Music's Greatest Voices
Hit: 5 Stars
Linda Ronstadt has one of the most expressive voices in all of popular music. While she didn't write any of her own hits, she and principal producer Peter Asher knew how to pick songs. Beginning with her first hit ("Different Drum") by Monkee Mike Nesmith to her final big hit in 1990, Karla Bonoff's "All My Life," Ronstadt put her own unique stamp on these songs. Whether it was outcharting Roy Orbison with her cover of "Blue Bayou," Chuck Berry on "Back in the USA" or Smokey Robinson & the Miracles on "Ooh Baby Baby," Ronstadt dominated the charts in the late-Seventies.The only problem I have is that this collection is somewhat incomplete. It's missing minor hits like "Get Closer" and her cover of the Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice." Even more disappointing is the exclusion of the Top 10 hit "How Do I Make You" from 1980. [And with a running time of 68:25, these could have been easily included.] But this does a nice job of including the big hits, a few key album tracks, and the 16-page booklet includes some great photos and track-by-track info. Overall, this is a very satisfying collection and will no doubt please casual fans with an overview of Ronstadt's career from 1967 to 1993. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Free Music Review: Blue Bayou
Hit: 5 Stars
"I'm going back someday, come what may to Blue Bayou."When Linda Ronstadt sang those delicious watercolor-dripping words, it wasn't of a particular place or locale. Though one may succeed in finding a "Blue Bayou" on a map, Blue Bayou isn't any one point on the compass-it's a perpetual state of mind that lives forever in loneliness and heartbreak and the longing for something that no longer exists. It is a picture in our memories and in our hearts where happiness was and somehow still remains, something we have all felt at one time or another in our lives. The melancholy yearning for that singularly quintessential moment when we each have felt enriched by the experience of love and understanding, of family and the jubilance of being surrounded by friends, representing warmth, and of life's constancy-it all goes deeper than our consciousness-it sings to place within, that goes to our soul of souls.
Blue Bayou speaks to what our lives should be all about. It resonates our hearts making us want to be happy again, wanting so badly to change our lives and turn back the clock to a time when we felt and possessed its elusive qualities. Blue Bayou makes each of us understand the differences and difficulties of each of our days in this one life we have been blessed with. It demonstrates how once we might have let happiness slip right through our fingers at a time when we might not have been attuned to its magic, or of when it was suddenly gone, or taken away. Blue Bayou, is watching the petals fall from a flower and recalling with poignant appreciation its former beauty.
Mostly, Blue Bayou is about hope and the need for having something dear to us available again. It is an inspirational overture to make things right, to turn over a new leaf and set ourselves right with the world again. Blue Bayou is that place where all these things are possible if only we can get back to it. It is about finding and understanding ourselves, whether through our own eyes are in the eyes of those who we love dearly. Blue Bayou then, is about love, and what love means to each and every one of us everyday we let in a fresh breath of air. Thank you Linda!!
"Well, I'll never be blue, my dreams come true, on Blue Bayou..."