![]() ![]() " Rivers of Babylon" (Brent Dowe, Trevor McNaughton, S. Lo Siento Mi Vida Hasten Down the Wind (With Don Henley) Rivers of Babylon Give One Heart Try Me Again Crazy Down So Low Someone to Lay Down Beside Me."Hasten Down the Wind" ( Warren Zevon) - 2:40.Recorded March-June 1976 This album was mixed using the Aphex Aural Exciter system. 'SP' in label matrix denotes a Specialty Records Corporation pressing. "Lo Siento Mi Vida" ( Linda Ronstadt, Kenny Edwards, Gilbert Ronstadt) - 3:54 This version has blue labels with white 'a' logo used briefly in 1976." That'll Be the Day" ( Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) - 2:32."If He's Ever Near" ( Karla Bonoff) - 3:15."The Tattler" ( Ry Cooder, Russ Titelman, Washington Phillips - 3:56.Linda's subsequent album was one of her best-selling ever, 1977's Simple Dreams. It was also the second of four #1 Country albums for her. Hasten itself spent several weeks in the Top Three of the Billboard album charts. This was Ronstadt's third album to go Platinum. A seductive reworking of Patsy Cline's classic "Crazy' was a Top 10 Country hit for Linda in early 1977. An exquisite treatment of the Tracy Nelson standard "Down So Low" and two Ronstadt-penned songs completed an array of immaculately chosen and delivered songs. The album showcased Ronstadt by way of songs such as the likes of Warren Zevon's "Hasten Down The Wind" and Karla Bonoff's "Someone To Lay Down Beside Me", both of whom would indeed soon be making a name for themselves in the singer-songwriter world. You'll scare the horse,' which by accident had happened by in that one fleeting moment. But this was shot outside her Malibu beach home, and what she has just said, in fact, is 'Don't shoot. 'You can give me weeds, whites, and wine.' sang Linda, endearing her to millions. It is a more serious, more poignant album than its predecessors and won immediate critical acclaim from critics and the general public alike. Linda Ronstadt 'Hasten Down The Wind,' Malibu 1975. It represented a slight departure from 1974's Heart Like A Wheel and 1975's Prisoner In Disguise in that she chose to showcase new songwriters over the traditional Country Rock sound she had been producing up to this point. The album earned Linda her second of a record 10 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female in early 1977. Ronstadt was the first female artist in history to accomplish this feat. While some critics may have preferred Joni Mitchell's intellectualism, Bonoff and Ronstadt tapped directly into the internal experiences of the American everywoman.Hasten Down The Wind is a 1976 album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt and Ronstadt's third straight million-selling album. Instead of the rush of newfound love, “Lose Again” deals with the tribulation of maintaining long-term relationships after the bloom is gone. Together they formulated a realistic, grownup perspective for female pop music. We were shooting on the beach outside some music producer’s house in Malibu Colony. Ronstadt brings soaring authenticity to Bonoff’s resolute words. A1 Lose Again 3:34 A2 The Tattler 3:56 A3 If Hes Ever Near 3:15 A4 Thatll Be The Day 2:32 A5 Lo Siento Mi Vida 3:54 A6 Hasten Down The Wind 2:40 B1 Rivers. Discovered using Shazam, the music discovery app. (And shame on Life magazine for their derogatory and off-base assessment of Lindas career in their recent publication 'Rock & Roll. Listen to Hasten Down the Wind (Live) Remastered by Jackson Browne, 74 Shazams. Tracy Nelson gave Ronstadt “Down So Low,” a husky blues about a rough breakup, while Karla Bonoff-who wrote “Lose Again,” “If He’s Ever Near," and “Someone to Lay Down Beside Me”-is the album’s hidden star. HASTEN DOWN THE WIND, with its extraordinary cover photograph, is an all-time classic, sadly overlooked these days, but rightfully one of the great albums to ever come out of the 70s or any decade for that matter. But more crucial is its inclusion of contemporary women songwriters. Like its predecessors, the album looks to Ronstadt’s peers (Zevon, Ry Cooder) and her formative idols (Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day,” an extra-sultry version of Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”). ![]() ![]() Named for the celebrated Warren Zevon song of the same name (sung here with Don Henley), Hasten Down the Wind shows Linda Ronstadt outgrowing the boisterously girlish persona that had made her a hippie icon.
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