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Raised on country and the ranchera music that echoed through her Tuscon, Arizona, neighborhood, Ronstadt sang with a verve and directness that eradicated the pretentiousness that could sometimes afflict the children of the counterculture. “She is offering us something very valuable for the '70s: not a fantasy figure, but a reality figure,” wrote the rock scribe Tom Nolan in 1974. In a time of fading utopian hopes, she emerged as an emissary able to connect old musical ways with the new consciousness of her own maverick generation. Her voice didn’t seem just to come from the house, but out of the earth, over the water into the rickety little town and the scrubland and forest beyond it.”īeginning in the 1970s, Linda Ronstadt’s singing has had that kind of geological effect throughout popular music: steadying, seemingly able to erase time and trends within one flow of feeling that goes below the surface and the deeper strata of American consciousness. “Gene was glad it was Linda Ronstadt, not someone soppy or sickly sweet,” Wakefield wrote. Even better, her covers of affecting balladsĪnd midtempo country-rock numbers intentionally revolve around vocal-heavyĪrrangements.In Home Free, his 1977 novel of faded denim hippie dreams, Dan Wakefield described his wandering anti-hero Gene Barrett overhearing a song on a nearby record player as he dozes in a hammock in Maine - Linda Ronstadt singing her folkish country ballad “Long Long Time” in the alto that wafted through many a window in those imperfect, exploratory days. The exquisite sound it has always deserved. Now, due to Mobile Fidelity’s trademark sonic restoration, the album finally has The Wind is the complete package of sensuality, passion, and poignancy. The singer stands on a beach before an ocean and a running horse, her exposingĭress a sign of the lovesick vulnerability that colors the songs—and Hasten Down Thematically revealing cover—in a nod to the escapism of fantasy romance novels, Playing just about everything with strings or skins. On drums and harmony vocals, folk-rock legend Peter Asher on guitar, sessionĭrumming master Russ Kunkel, and multi-instrumentalist sensation Andrew Gold Low", Karla Bonoff’s "If He’s Ever Near", and Ry Cooder’s "The Tattler".Īnd then, there’s the supporting cast, which includes Eagles legend Don Henley

Willie Nelson) "Crazy", Buddy Holly’s "That’ll Be the Day", Nelson’s "Down So Watertight repertoire: The Warren Zevon title track. The Wind is Ronstadt at her best—and that’s saying something. Part of her impeccable string of mid-1970sĪlbums that defined California’s soft-rock scene, the Grammy-winning Hasten Down Numbered, Limited Edition! Half-Speed Mastered from Original Master Tapes by Rob LoVerde at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab!ĭid any musician have more talent at their beck and call during the '70s than Out Of Print! Only a few copies left! This item not eligible for any further discount offers! Typical order times are located within the product description. It is not guaranteed.Ī Special Order item is an item that we do not stock but can order from the manufacturer. When an item is Out Of Stock and we have an estimated date when our stock should arrive, we list that date on our website in the part's description. We do not have a specific date when it will be coming.Īwaiting repress titles are in the process of being repressed by the label.

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