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Turns out there’s this group called The Stone Poneys and that the girl in the group, Linda Ronstadt, heard the Greenbriar Boys take on, ‘Different Drum’ and thought here, finally, was a song that would suit her. I got to say that anyone who has ever seen The Stone Poneys knows th...
‘Silk Purse’ was given generally positive reviews and it was Ronstadt’s first to make chart positions in Australia, Canada and the US. The recording of ‘Silk Purse’ took place at Cinderella Sound Studios and Woodland Sound Studios, both in Nashville, Tennessee, between January and February...
In case you need a reminder, Ronstadt was a musical force of nature who sold 100 million records, had four consecutive platinum albums, and won an armful of Grammys for songs in wildly different music styles, like country, Latin and pop. Linda Ronstadt - "I've Got A Crush On You" HQb...
It doesn’t bother Linda Ronstadt that it’s taken this long into her Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-lauded career to release a live album. “It always seemed to me the best place you can record is in the studio, so you can fix things if you make a mistake,” Ronstadt, who’s been...
“You know, when you’re finished with your show, you just want to get out of there and go home and do something else,” Ronstadt says. “I stayed every night for his show, which was almost two hours long. He had great players. He had Kenneth Buttrey for part of that tour playing...
Earlier in the fall, meanwhile, Ronstadt was modest in assessing her level of achievement during her career: “I always thought I couldn’t sing very well. I was always very frustrated by it, and I was always sorta disappointed by it, y’know? Everything I did always fell short of ...
in the words of an earlier Ronstadt/Stone Poneys song, “Different Drum,” would not likely occur, as the song’s lyrics suggest: “You and I travel to the beat of a different drum / Oh, can’t you tell by the way I run / Ev’ry time you make eyes at me…” Still, there was...