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Linda Ronstadt - Lush Life Audio CD

A fair review of the Linda Ronstadt "Lush Life" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Linda Ronstadt reviews here, or go back to the Linda Ronstadt tabs.

Linda Ronstadt Band: Linda Ronstadt
Title: Lush Life
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: When I Fall in Love 2: Skylark 3: It Never Entered My Mind 4: Mean to Me 5: When Your Lover Has Gone 6: I'm a Fool to Want You 7: You Took Advantage of Me 8: Sophisticated Lady 9: Can't We Be Friends? 10: My Old Flame 11: Falling in Love Again 12: Lush Life

Lush Life
So glad to find it again. This is one of my favorite CDs. Thanks for prompt shipping! .


What an album!
To be honest, I don't know why I bought this cassette in 1984 when I was in college, but it became one of my favorite albums ever. I was not a big fan of big band music or Linda Ronstadt. I believe she was on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and sang Skylark (I think) on the show. I was bowled over. Great songs, great vocals from Ronstadt, excellent arrangements, . . . just a near perfect album. From a hard rock n roll fan, this was a major leap for me, but I could listen to this album all day long! .


Lush Life
They seem to have been made for each other with these productions. Another sensitive production between Linda Ronstadt & Nelson Riddle. If you like the american songbook sung with a slightly different, sweetly sentimental approach this should suit you. I thought Nat King Cole had the mortgage on "When I fall in love" but I find myself liking this version eqully. She soars with "skylark" and moves up and down the emotional register finally leaving one with an incredibly moving rendition of "Lush Life".


Fitzgerald, Sinatra, Ronstadt ............
She does what no-one has done before or since - make "Lush Life" sound easy to sing. Linda soars through the easier songs here, and steps lightly through the hard ones.
This is the peak of Linda's impressive career. Her singing is beautiful, her voice an incredible instrument with range and depth and fluidity. Only early Ella Fitzgerald and middle Frank Sinatra are in this league.
Don't believe the critics who say "Hummin To Myself" (2004) is a better collection. Every voice goes through an arc of quality, rising and then fading. What she achieved here is unsustainable because this is as good as it gets.
Some people think Linda is just a pop singer reaching above herself who can't really be compared with the legends. Closed minds hear what they expect to hear. If you open your ears and mind to this album you will find sustained beauty never exceeded by anyone in any genre at any time.
A hundred years after we die, no-one will give much thought to most of us. But in a thousand years Nelson Riddle and Linda Ronstadt will still be legends. They made three albums together, each with excellence stamped all over it. But this one (the middle one) is the must have. This is sublime.


A great singer's best work......
When Linda did her three record collaberation with Nelson Riddle back in the 80's, I grabbed the LP's as soon as they came out. . . I still have them, my first, and only, Ronstadt LP's [I can't stand country]. The whole project set a five star standard in every respect. . . voice, orchestra, cover art, all perfect; this may be the best of the three.

This is a wonderful sampling of "The Great American Songbook". . . fine mixture of slow and up-tempo numbers. Billy Strayhorn's title cut is pure perfection, Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady" is beautiful, and Johnny Mercer's "Skylark" is haunting. It Never Entered My Mind that Linda could sing this fabulous [and deceptively tough] music so well, but she sure did. Can't We Be Friends. . . .

. . . . not hardly; Linda's politics make me sick. Still, she's absolutely a singer for the ages [and politics and music shouldn't mix, anyway]. This represents Linda's vocal prime; a great singer, singing great music, with a great conductor. Don't fail to get this album.


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