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Linda Ronstadt - We Ran Audio CD

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Linda Ronstadt Band: Linda Ronstadt
Title: We Ran
Rating:
Release Date: 1998-06-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: When We Ran 2: If I Should Fall Behind 3: Give Me a Reason 4: Ruler of My Heart 5: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 6: Cry 'Til My Tears Run Dry 7: I Go to Pieces 8: Heartbreak Kind 9: Damage 10: Icy Blue Heart 11: Dreams of the San Joaquin

Love Linda Ronstadt
I much prefer her earlier work (1970's) but this album is pretty good. This is a good album. .


We Ran....a Five Star
The Guitar work in Dylan's Tom Thumbs Blues are fascinating. Dreams of San Joaquin & Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues are the best.

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We Ran -- Out of Steam
You tend to buy it the moment it comes out. Any brand-new album by Linda Ronstadt is highly anticipated. That's exactly what I did when "We Ran" came out in 1998. Last week, I played it again. While Linda's voice holds up, the material is slow, draggy, dull, and plodding -- extremely uninspired work -- actually depressing. The artwork is dull. She uses her usual art designers -- Kosh -- to decorate the CD booklet, but even they appear to be out of ideas. The typesetting of the words in the insert looks cheap. All you see of Linda are her eyeballs in reverse images throughout. I can't think of one highlight on the record, except that she has her family singing on the last song, "Dreams of the San Joaquin," with their wonderful harmonies. But even "San Joaquin" is a mundane tune. "Give Me a Reason" had possibilities, but it sounds as if all of the singers are tired and weary, and out of breath. I want Linda to rock! The actual title of this recording should have been, "We Ran Out of Steam," (similar to another reviewer's comments). This album is for the folksy-bluesy, easy-listening audience who are also absolute die-hard Linda Ronstadt fans. (I wonder what made her record company think that this was even commercial?) I recommend Linda's CD, "Hasten Down the Wind," to anyone, if you want to hear what makes Linda outstanding. I'm giving this CD ("We Ran") away, as I don't count it as part of my CD library. Takes up space.


this cd is a actually very good
carly was on elektra and linda on asylum. okay i love carly simon and linda ronstadt and their 70's
work is classic.
i know linda ronstadt's best work and i own "Prisioner In
Disguise", "Hasten Down the Wind", "Simple Dreams", and
"Mad Love"--she was on a roll. I read alot of reviews on
"We Ran" and it is actually quite good. The material,her voice,
choice of songs are extraordinary. "When we ran" the opening
song is one of her best----now as for carly simon ---she
put out one great album after another in the 70's. Her
1981 "Torch" is classic.


A Must Have...great timing...
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It is often said that Linda Ronstadt, whose mammoth popularity in the 70's and 80's made her a pop icon and put her up there as THE bestselling female artist of her time, took a musical detour in 1983 because the times were changing and her "Get Closer" album went gold but failed to go platinum, as her previous 8 albums had and her subsequent genre albums remarkably were able to do. What can you say about a CD that has the best female voice for a rock ballad (Winger, Bon Jovi, and Whitesnake take note) paired with Tom Petty and Eagles band members and produced by Glyns Johns, whose produced The Who, Rolling Stones, Stevie Nicks, etc.

Let's face it. Linda Ronstadt has the best female voice for Rock & Roll. It goes so well with that sliding guitar, and drums. She was just restless. She could have gone the way of Pat Benatar or Debbie Harry in the early 80's, because she more than likely had the first choice to songs and musicians but she chose to remain true still restless she half heartedly put out "Mad Love" and "Get Closer" before moving to big band. It was not her time to go the way of the 80's rock chicks (been there done that) Time to move on.

This being said, I think that this "We Ran" album represents a "mature" rock singer moving on; singing about faded love, damage, addiction as opposed to a younger Linda Ronstadt singing about all these emotions in her ""Simple Dreams" album. It was about time Linda recorded this type of cd BUT IT WAS THE RIGHT TIME.

This cd contains very gritty rock-soul oriented songs with a dry almost garage band feel to it.

*Damage - a very contemporary song. Could play on radio.
*Ruler of My Heart - very good r&b sounding song.
*Tom Thumbs Blues - good cover of a dylan classic.
*Tears run Dry - One of my favorites. Harkens to the 60's motown sound. Aretha would be proud.
*We Ran - the opening song to the cd. it's not country nor folk sounding. Its Adult Rock.

This really is a good CD that has held up over time.

Two words describe it: Gritty and Hard.


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