Linda Ronstadt Hand Sown

The title of Capitol's 2006 collection The Best of Linda Ronstadt: The Capitol Years is a little misleading: this isn't a mere single-disc overview of hits; this double-disc set is a virtual complete recorded works of Ronstadt's stint at Capitol between 1969-1974, encompassing the entirety of four albums her 1969 solo debut, Hand Sown..Home Grown, its 1970 sequel, Silk Purse, 1972's self-titled third album, and its 1974 follow-up, Heart Like a Wheel, which brought her stardom plus five bonus tracks, two of them capturing her live at The Troubadour. Apart from Heart Like a Wheel, these LPs for Capitol were not hits, due partially to the fact that Ronstadt was still finding her footing as a record-maker during this time.

Born in Arizona, in 1946, by the early 1970 s Linda Ronstadt had come to epitomise the archetypal cool Californian rock chick . While her parents were not musicians, she was exposed to a huge variety of music in her early home environment, often via radio, and enjoyed a diversity of singers from Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf to Hank Williams and Elvis Presley ; Maria Callas was a particular inspiration and intriguingly Linda claimed that: I learn more about singing rock n roll from listening to Maria Callas records than I ever did from listening to pop music……she s the greatest chick singer ever.

Import-only two CD compilation of Linda Ronstadt's early solo recordings for the Capitol Records label. This double disc set includes all four of Linda's solo LPs released between 1969 through 1974, as well as five previously unreleased studio and live tracks. Contains the groundbreaking album Hand Sown.. Home Grown (1969), Silk Purse (1970), Linda Ronstadt (1971) and Heart Like a Wheel (1974), which is generally considered to be Linda's greatest album. 46 tracks including the hits 'You're No Good', 'When Will I Be Loved?' and many others.