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Linda Ronstadt - Linda Ronstadt Audio CD

A fair review of the Linda Ronstadt "Linda Ronstadt" 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: Linda Ronstadt
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Release Date: 1995-04-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Rock Me on the Water 2: Crazy Arms 3: I Won't Be Hangin' Round 4: I Still Miss Someone 5: In My Reply 6: I Fall to Pieces 7: Ramblin' Round 8: Birds 9: I Ain't Always Been Faithful 10: Rescue Me

One of my Favorites
The sound was rich and simple, A great list of country cover songs, kinda odd for her self titled record, but it surely works here. Linda Ronstadt could always do one thing well, sing, I love this country, country-rock record, it was a beautiful album when I first bought it.
Jackson Brown's "Rock Me On The water" has a gospel touch to it. Her version of "I fall to Pieces" is precious. I saw Ronstadt with a four piece band at the Main Point, near Philly, sat about 10 feet from her in this small about 75 seat venue, coffee house.
Ronstadt and Emmy Lou Harris are very similar during this part of their careers. Another great Rerelease CD by Capital Records is "The Best of Ronstadt, The Capital Years", four full Cds ,with xtras, remastered very nicely, might contain this.


pleasing
I found just what I had asked for and expected. . Linda in fine flower. Listening to Linda sing 'Rock Me On The Water' truly is a religious experience. Rock On!
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A seminal album in Linda's career
The music is still fairly simple and raw, unlike the slicker music that came later, but the song selection gives clues about the future. This album was the last of Linda's early country-folk-rock music before she began the transition to the mainstream pop-rock artist of the seventies that made her famous. The backing musicians became the Eagles soon after this album was recorded. Linda followed this album by recording Don't cry now, a fine country-rock album, then by the hugely successful Heart like a wheel.

The songs are mostly (perhaps entirely) covers. I fall to pieces (Patsy Cline), Crazy arms (Ray Price) and I still miss someone (Johnny Cash) are proof of Linda's enthusiasm for country music. They sit comfortably among the other songs here, including Rock me on the water (Jackson Browne), In my reply (Livingston Taylor), Rambling round (Woody Guthrie), Birds (Neil Young) and Rescue me (Fontella Bass).

If you like Linda's other early albums (Hand sown home grown and Silk purse), you will surely enjoy this one also. There really isn't much to choose between the three of them on quality.


Quietly devastating
It's a lovely, sad, bittersweet effort, thrown a bit by a strident cover of "Rescue Me" at the very end. Emotional rockabilly outing from Linda and most of the Eagles can't surpass the superior "Silk Purse", but does have a wealth of wonderful material and Ronstadt's pure, bright voice at the center. Otherwise, first-rate.


Linda Ronstadt On The Way Up!
The collection included here are really much more country and even blue grass than she would move to later, but the effect of that clear, sharp voice on all these traditional songs is simply electrifying. This is a lovely album by Linda Ronstadt recorded in the brief period after she had left the Stone Ponys and before she really burst onto the scene with "Long Long Time". I had the opportunity to see her at a small venue in Lenox, Massachusetts called the Music Inn, a country summer place where the performer was up on a covered stage which was more an open platform covered by a roof than anything else, and the audience was sprawled out across an expanse of lawn that made a natural sloping amphitheater. Of course, Linda and the small group she had backing her were simply spellbinding.

Here she works her way through a number of great songs, putting her own special style to magical work. From Jackson Browne's early "Rock Me On The Water" to Willy Nelson's "Crazy Arms", from "I Won't Be Hanging Around" to "Crazy Arms", from an electrifying "I Stil Miss Someone" to "In My Reply", from Patty Cline's "I Fall To Pieces" to "Ramblin Round", this is terrific country work by a performer who was just starting to find her style and form. My favorite song is her interpretation of Neil Young's "Birds",along with a rip-roaring version of "Rescue Me", one of her first hits. This is an album that is essential for any real Linda Ronstadt fan. Enjoy!.


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