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: Fans of 70's music must have this CD.
Hit: 5 Stars
Great CD. Contains all the classics that Linda Ronstadt created. A must have for 70's music fans.Free Music Review: LINDA RONSTADT GREATEST HITS
Hit: 5 Stars
A VERY EXCELLENT CD I JUST CANT LET A DAY GO BY WITHOUT HEARING IT.IM LISTENING TO IT NOW.Free Music Review: Always the best...
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She can't be beat! she is a real professional and I love her. Keep singing Linda!Free Music Review: VERY BEST OF L RONSTADT
Hit: 5 Stars
EXCELLENT ALBUM,CANNOT WAIT FOR THE VERY BEST VOLUME 2
Free Music Review: Excellent compilaton of country flavoured pop/rock. 85/100
Hit: 4 Stars
The compilation I bought recently by Ronstadt is quite similar to this one, so, I am guessing that maybe I have a newer compilation, or a different version of this cd was released in countries like Australia (my cd has the same title, but is listed as a remastered version, for 2002), where I live. My cd has 23 songs, two more than this one, and it is missing two songs from this compilation ("Love is a rose" and "Adios"). This compilation does not have 5 songs my compilation has ("After the goldrush", a Neil Young cover, which I liked; "Heat wave"; "The blue train"; "How do I make you?"; and "Desperado", a cover of an Eagles' song). The ordering of the tracks is also different too...might have to check on my cd's release date etc.
Linda Ronstadt is not the kind of artist you hear anymore on the kind of classic pop/rock stations that I listen to. No doubt she gets played here, but probably on radio stations which cater to an older audience. This is a pity, in my view, as she has a fine, smooth voice, and her vocals can be in a rock style at times.
My favourite songs on my compilation are:
Different drum: this is a song I knew of and liked, but was pleasantly surprised to learn that Linda sang it. It has an excellent arrangement, featuring bass, interesting sounding strings, a viola or cello or something like that, and a harpsichord, perhaps. Linda's vocals soar in this song. It has a classic 60's feel to it...like a fine wine, it improves with age.
Poor poor pitiful me: is a witty, amusing song as it wallows in self-pity. Has more soaring vocals and features a rock style lead guitar.
You're no good: Linda's vocal journey is good here-breathy vocals to glassy vocals and then more forceful. Has a nice groove to the accoustic guitar and keyboard.
All my life: has lots of hooks. Features a pretty keyboard melody and pretty vocal melodies by both Linda and her male co vocalist. A melody in this song reminded me of the main melody in a good Semisonic song callled "Closing time".
It's so easy: Linda's vocals range from glassy to phlegmy in this song. It's all good though.
Blue Bayou: has a country flavoured guitar twang and Linda's voice varies from gentle to soaring.
There are quite a few other songs I like on my compilation, but I won't go too much into them, except to say that on some songs you can compare her to Enya (as in "Winter light"), whilst at other times she sounds like a 50's rock'n'roller ("Back in the USA"), or a country pop/rock artist (as in "When will I be loved?"). I really enjoyed her duets with singers like Aaron Neville, on many ballads in this compilation.
It was a pleasure to rediscover Linda's re-interpretations of songs after not having heard her songs for such a long time. There is a wide variety of instruments and sounds in this cd (country, rock, ballad, pop/orchestral sounds, xylophone, honky tonk piano, accoustic to rock guitars etc).
If you like easy listening, middle of the road music or soft rock, Rondstadt is a fine interpreter of this kind of music, and her vocals have a surprisingly harder, 'rock' edge to it than I remembered.
A nice pick up.
You might want to check out female vocalists like Enya, Suzanne Vega and Jenny Morris. Have posted a review on Vega here, and may soon put up one for Morris.