![]() ![]() 4:29 Linda Ronstadt 'Lose Again' 3:34 Lo Siento Mi Vida. She simply allows the beauty of this well-structured song to speak for itself. 2:42 Linda Ronstadt - Down So Low ( Live ) 4:07 Someone to Lay Down Beside Me. She doesn’t battle the instruments she doesn’t strain for high notes. She sounds at peace with herself as she sings of foolish lovers who don’t take the time to discover love’s true meaning. Ronstadt’s interpretation is extraordinarily subtle, sly and witty. Swirling electric piano figures and a barely audible mandolin establish an irresistibly exotic ambiance. Ry Cooder’s “The Tattler” is one of the album’s two gems. Her reading could be tougher, but the music behind it - particularly the solo sparring between guitarists Andrew Gold and Waddy Wachtel - has enough bite to overcome the vocal shortcomings. Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind mtnhigh 10K subscribers Subscribe 32K views 3 years ago Linda Ronstadt and her band perform 'Hasten Down The Wind', a song written by Warren Zevon. Music CDs Hasten Down the Wind by Linda Ronstadt (CD, 2014) 11 product ratings About this product Brand new 10.48 New (other) 9.79 Pre-owned 7.29 Make an offer: Brand New Stock photo Brand new: Lowest price 10. The version of “That’ll Be the Day” included here neither alters my feelings for nor threatens the Buddy Holly original. I’ve always appreciated Ronstadt’s good-natured approach to her remakes of rock ‘n’ roll oldies. And in a few instances it’s as good as anything Ronstadt has done. ![]() When she is joined on the chorus by Don Henley (of the Eagles) the impact of the song’s touching and mystifying lyric is completely blunted by the beauty of the harmonizing. Here, strings and Andrew Gold’s impersonal piano accompaniment take the song all the way out of the danger zone, and Ronstadt’s carefully articulated, stodgy vocal belies her misunderstanding. In the original version, stinging, venomous guitar lines plus ethereal guitar solos accentuated Zevon’s weary vocal. While it is certainly not in a league with her masterpiece, Heart like a Wheel (and I’m beginning to believe its perfection occurs but once in an artist’s career), Hasten down the Wind is nonetheless representative of Ronstadt redivivus, of Ronstadt, the sensitive, introspective stirring we have admired all these years.Īside from the inclusion of two innocuous songs - “Lo Siento Mi Vida” and Karla Bonoff’s “If He’s Ever Near” - the album’s problems are fairly well exemplified by the totally wrongheaded interpretation of the Warren Zevon-penned title song, which delineates the chilling tale of a lover’s indecisiveness. 'Hasten Down the Wind' is a song written and recorded by Warren Zevon and featured on his eponymous major-label debut album. This is Linda Ronstadt’s tenth album (including the three made with her first group, the Stone Poneys). Think instead of a gifted singer - perhaps our most gifted - who has given us (arguably, I admit) some 40 memorable songs but failed, and miserably so, to connect with much passion on her last album, Prisoner in Disguise. When I say welcome back, don’t think of John Sebastian’s awful song, or the equally awful television show it introduces. ![]()
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