LINDA RONSTADT - RECORD PLANT 1973
August 20, 2008 – 5:14 am
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LINDA RONSTADT
I Believe In You [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, November 18, 1973. Very good radio broadcast.
One of the joys and highlights of Ruben Blades’s y Seis del Solar/Escenas 1985 album is his duet with Linda Ronstadt on the track Silencios. Then there is that swinging Perfidia in The Mambo Kings movie. But let’s go back to a time before Ronstadt had even considered venturing so far south of the border.
After three solo albums on Capitol, Ronstadt signed with Asylum Records and released Don’t Cry Now in September 1973. By then, Ronstadt was already considered a fine interpreter of songs and the new album had songs by JD Souther, Don Henley/Glenn Frey, Randy Newman and even Neil Young (I Believe In You). Just two months after the album’s release, Ronstadt is hard at work plugging Don’t Cry Now at the Record Plant, not knowing that the album would stay more than a year on the chart and that the album’s tracks such as Desperado, Love Has No Pride and even a chestnut such as Silver Threads And Golden Needles would continue to be fan favourites today.
Ronstadt would, for a period, be the “highest paid woman in rock,” but that would still be a way off. For the time being, traversing country, folk and pop/rock, she needed to prove her worth to her new label and she is raring to go.
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, this recording has never been officially released.
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Track 01. Nightingale
Track 02. I Fall To Pieces
Track 03. Silver Threads And Golden Needles
Track 04. Love Has No Pride
Track 05. Rock Me On The Water
Track 06. I Can’t Help It If I’m Still In Love With You
Track 07. It Doesn’t Matter Any More
Track 08. The Dark End Of The Street
Track 09. I Believe In You
Track 10. Crazy Arms
Track 11. Long, Long Time
Track 12. You’re No Good
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12 Responses to “LINDA RONSTADT - RECORD PLANT 1973”
Thanks for the toones! Huzzah!
By J.P. Gelinas on Aug 20, 2008
Yes, thank you very much for this.
By datdemdar on Aug 20, 2008
This rules. Linda is awesome! Thank you
By J.P. on Aug 21, 2008
vintage Linda!..Country-base but heading towards rock.
By mike traynor on Aug 21, 2008
SHE SINGS AS BEAUTIFUL AS SHE LOOKS.ALWAYS HAS A TOP NOTCH VOICE.I JUST WISH SHE’D GO BACK TO SINGING SOME GOOD OLD COUNTRY/ROCK
OR SOME PLAIN OLD ROCK AN ROLL!
By BTLFAN on Aug 22, 2008
Great music and singing, plus back then she was a fox!
By Bill on Aug 22, 2008
Backing band is:
Bob Warford, Guitar
Andrew Gold, Guitar
Doug Hayward, Bass Guitar
John Boylan, Piano, Guitar
Jimmy Hodder, Drums
Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, Steel Guitar
By Brad Bechtel on Aug 22, 2008
BTLFAN: Check out her albums “We Ran” and “Feels Like Home.” There you will find Linda on tunes by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, John Hiatt, Randy Newman, etc. Plus she sings a slinky country-rock duet with Bearnie Leadon on a track on the “We Ran” album and many of the musicians on this album are from The Heartbreakers. “Feels Like Home” is more country than the other album, with great versions of Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush” and the Carter Family’s “Lover’s Return.” Unfortunately, no one paid attention to these albums when they were released.
By richwar on Aug 26, 2008
A lot of the critics didn’t like Linda. I loved her - had such a mad crush on her - I used to just sit & stare at that magical Don’t Cry Now album cover when it came out. Later on, post-punk daze, I discovered that a lot of the records sound stiff, perhaps because Linda was too much of a perfectionist in the studio.
That she never put out a live album is one of the greatest losses in rock history. It was live where she just let it rip and truly shined out. The end of “Crazy Arms” here - holy-freaking-smokes, folks!
So thanks so very much for this. Sweet sound. Linda’s in fine voice. It’s a bit of a mellow show, being a recording-studio concert. But this shows where she was headed. I saw Linda not too long after this, at the Boston Music Hall opening for Jackson Browne - wow. I was lucky enough to see her again a year later, on tour for Heart Like A Wheel - her best album - and man, she was in kicking command… To more rocking Ronstadt!
By thewaymouth on Aug 30, 2008
PS That she never put out a live album in her prime that is, is one of the greatest losses in rock history.
By thewaymouth on Aug 30, 2008
to thewaymouth, much thanks are in order for the link above. “unexpected a political blues”. Checked it out and found it of much interest, and suggest it to anyone who hasn’t. Curiosity has rewarded me once again.
By mike riley on Apr 10, 2009