Linda Ronstadt - The 70's Studio Album Collection (Édition StudioMasters) '2014

Tracks list

	Tracklist

CD1
01. I Can Almost See It
02. Love Has No Pride
03. Silver Threads and Golden Needles
04. Desperado
05. Don't Cry Now
06. Sail Away
07. Colorado
08. The Fast One
09. Everybody Loves a Winner
10. I Believe in You

CD2
01. Love Is a Rose
02. Hey Mister, That's Me up on the Jukebox
03. Roll Um Easy
04. Tracks of My Tears
05. Prisoner in Disguise
06. Heat Wave
07. Many Rivers to Cross
08. The Sweetest Gift
09. You Tell Me That I'M Falling Down
10. I Will Always Love You
11. Silver Blue

CD3
01. Lose Again
02. The Tattler
03. If He's Ever Near
04. That'll Be the Day
05. Lo Siento Mi Vida
06. Hasten Down the Wind (with Don Henley)
07. Rivers of Babylon
08. Give One Heart
09. Try Me Again
10. Crazy
11. Down so Low
12. Someone to Lay Down Beside Me

CD4
01. It's so Easy
02. Carmelita
03. Simple Man, Simple Dream
04. Sorrow Lives Here
05. I Never Will Marry (with Dolly Parton)
06. Blue Bayou
07. Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
08. Maybe I'm Right
09. Tumbling Dice
10. Old Paint

CD5
01. Back in the U.S.A. (Re-mastered)
02. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
03. Just One Look (Re-mastered)
04. Alison
05. White Rhythm & Blues
06. All That You Dream
07. Ooh Baby Baby (Re-mastered)
08. Mohammed's Radio
09. Blowing Away
10. Love Me Tender


Linda Ronstadt began as the clear-voiced, country-influenced singer for '60s
folk-rockers the Stone Poneys, where she covered tunes by the likes of Mike
Nesmith and Tim Buckley. That knack for choosing material served her well in the
second half of the '70s, when she became a pop superstar interpreting songs by
everyone from Dave Edmunds and Elvis Costello to Chuck Berry and Roy Orbison.
Subsequently, she has shown her diversity by cutting albums of jazz standards,
traditional Mexican music, and pure country.
While Ronstadt was a student at Arizona State University, she met guitarist Bob
Kimmel. The duo moved to Los Angeles, where guitarist/songwriter Kenny Edwards
joined the pair. Calling themselves the Stone Poneys, the group became a leading
attraction on California's folk circuit, recording their first album in 1967.
The band's second album, Evergreen, Vol. 2, featured the Top 20 hit "Different
Drum," which was written by Michael Nesmith. After recording one more album with
the group, Ronstadt left for a solo career at the end of 1968.
Ronstadt's first two solo albums -- Hand Sown Home Grown (1969) and Silk Purse
(1970) -- accentuated her country roots, featuring several honky tonk numbers.
Released in 1971, her self-titled third album was a pivotal record in her
career. Featuring a group of session musicians who would later form the Eagles,
the album was a softer, more laid-back variation of the country-rock she had
been recording. With the inclusion of songs from singer/songwriters like Jackson
Browne, Neil Young, and Eric Anderson, Linda Ronstadt had folk-rock connections
as well. Don't Cry Now, released in 1973, followed the same formula to greater
success, yet it was 1974's Heart Like a Wheel that perfected the sound, making
Ronstadt a star. Featuring the hit covers "You're No Good," "When Will I Be
Loved," and "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," Heart Like a Wheel reached number one
and sold over two million copies.
Released in the fall of 1975, Prisoner in Disguise followed the same pattern as
Heart Like a Wheel and was nearly as successful. Hasten Down the Wind, released
in 1976, suggested a holding pattern, even if it charted higher than Prisoner in
Disguise. Simple Dreams (1977) expanded the formula by adding a more
rock-oriented supporting band, which breathed life into the Rolling Stones'
"Tumbling Dice" and Warren Zevon's "Poor Poor Pitiful Me." The record became the
singer's biggest hit, staying on the top of the charts for five weeks and
selling over three million copies. With Living in the U.S.A. (1978), Ronstadt
began experimenting with new wave, recording Elvis Costello's "Alison"; the
album was another number one hit. On 1980's Mad Love, she made a full-fledged
new wave record, recording three Costello songs and adopting a synth-laden
sound. While the album was a commercial success, it signaled that her patented
formula was beginning to run out of steam. That suspicion was confirmed with
1982's Get Closer, her first album since Heart Like a Wheel to fail to go
platinum.
Sensing it was time to change direction, Ronstadt starred in the Broadway
production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, as well as the
accompanying movie. Pirates of Penzance led the singer to a collaboration with
Nelson Riddle, who arranged and conducted her 1983 collection of pop standards
What's New. While it received lukewarm reviews, it was a considerable hit,
reaching number three on the charts and selling over two million copies.
Ronstadt's next two albums -- Lush Life (1984) and For Sentimental Reasons
(1986) -- were also albums of pre-rock standards recorded with Riddle.
At the end of 1986, Ronstadt returned to contemporary pop, recording "Somewhere
Out There," the theme to the animated An American Tail, with James Ingram; the
single became a number two hit. She also returned to her country roots in 1987,
recording the Trio album with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris. The album was
enough of a success that she reunited with Parton and Harris for another
collaboration, 1999's Trio II. The two Trio albums and a number of unreleased
tracks were later compiled into a box set, 2016's The Complete Trio Collection.
In 1987, Ronstadt also recorded Canciones de Mi Padre, a set of traditional
Mexican songs that became a surprise hit. Two years later, she recorded Cry Like
a Rainstorm - Howl Like the Wind -- her first contemporary pop album since
1982's Get Closer. Featuring four duets with Aaron Neville, including the number
two hit "Don't Know Much," the album sold over two million copies.
Ronstadt returned to traditional Mexican and Spanish material with Mas Canciones
(1991) and Frenesi (1992). She returned to pop with 1994's Winter Light, which
failed to generate a hit single, as did 1995's Feels Like Home. In 1996, she
released the children's album Dedicated to the One I Love; We Ran followed in
1998. Two years later, Ronstadt delivered the holiday collection A Merry Little
Christmas. Another collection of standards, Hummin' to Myself, arrived in 2004,
followed by Adieu False Heart, a collaboration with Ann Savoy of the
Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band in 2006.
As it turned out, Adieu False Heart would be Ronstadt's last studio album. She
supported it with a tour in 2007, including an appearance at the Newport Folk
Festival, and although it didn't rise above 146 on the Billboard charts, it did
receive a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Folk Album. In 2010, she
appeared on the Chieftains' San Patricio album, but a year later, she told The
Arizona Daily Star she was retired. Three years later, she published her
autobiography Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir and, in its pre-release publicity,
Ronstadt confessed that she had Parkinson's disease, explaining that it was a
factor in her retirement. Early in 2014, she was inducted into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame; although she wasn't able to attend, an intergenerational all-star
group performed in her honor, including Emmylou Harris, Stevie Nicks, Bonnie
Raitt, Sheryl Crow, and Carrie Underwood. Around the time of her induction, the
compilation Duets was released on Rhino.
In early 2019, Ronstadt released Live in Hollywood, an archival album
documenting a concert she gave in 1980 which was originally aired on HBO. ~
Stephen Thomas Erlewine 




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