Linda Ronstadt Jardin Azul Las Canciones Favoritas (cd, Comp)

This collection features five of Linda Ronstadt's best albums from the 1970s, the decade during which she became one of the most popular singers in the music world.

The album "Linda Ronstadt - Sausalito, Nov '73" is a live recording of Linda Ronstadt's performance in November 1973 in Sausalito, California. This album captures Ronstadt during a period when she was evolving from a country-rock artist into a mainstream rock and pop star.

STUNNING 1984 BROADCAST BY LINDA RONSTADT WITH THE NELSON RIDDLE ORCHESTRA Having released over 30 studio albums and 15 compilations to date, and charted 38 Billboard Hot 100 singles, with 21 reaching the top 40, 10 in the top 10, three at number 2, and one chart topper, Linda Ronstadt remains among the most successful American performers of all time, having sold over 100 million records in her lengthy career. In 1983, wishing to diversify, Ronstadt had enlisted the help of 62-year-old orchestral band-leader and conductor, Nelson Riddle. The two embarked on an unorthodox and original approach to rehabilitating the Great American Songbook , recording a trilogy of traditional pop albums: What's New (1983) Lush Life (1984) and For Sentimental Reasons (1986), cumulatively sold almost seven million copies in the US alone. Following the release of What s New, Linda, with Riddle and his band in tow, put on a number of concerts in the US, showcasing the first two albums of the trilogy, and on March 9th 1984, at Santa Barbara s Arlington Theater, they performed a stunning set which was broadcast across FM radio along the West Coast. One of the finest performances of the short tour, this previously unreleased recording is now available in its entirety on this CD for the first time.

STUNNING 1973 BROADCAST RECORDING FROM A YOUNG LINDA RONSTADT This superb late ‘73 live radio broadcast, from the renowned Record Plant recording facility based in Sausalito, California, highlights some of the very best material that Linda Ronstadt performed during the first few vital years of her solo career. During this period Linda used Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner of The Eagles either in the studio or as members of her live backing band. A version of ‘Nightingale’, then an unreleased Jackson Browne number although included on The Eagles debut album, is featured here. Ronstadt’s Don’t Cry Now (1973), her first album for Asylum Records, was released just two months prior to this recording. It was her most successful to date, spending more than a year on the Billboard album chart and peaking at number 45. Although not released until a year after this show, her Heart Like A Wheel follow-up is represented at this show by four cuts: ‘I Can’t Help It’ (If I’m Still In Love With You), ‘It Doesn’t Matter Any More’ (previously a hit for Buddy Holly), soul classic ‘Dark End Of The Street’ and ‘You’re No Good’.

What's New is an album of traditional pop standards released by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt in 1983. It represents the first in a trilogy of 1980s albums Ronstadt recorded with bandleader/arranger Nelson Riddle.

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's world-renowned mastering system, this hybrid SACD presents Heart Like a Wheel with astounding clarity, depth, and naturalism. Still the most difficult instrument to accurately capture, the female voice is here conveyed with transfixing realism, warmth, and feeling. The inner beauty of Ronstadt's flawless phrasing and passionate inflections bears out with obvious candor, her tonality and emotiveness pouring through every lyric and wordless expression.

"Trio" is the unbelievable collaboration between music legends, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. This multi-Platinum release topped Billboard’s Top Country albums and reached #6 on the Billboard 200. It includes the standouts, “To Know Him Is To Love Him”, “Wildflowers” and “Those Memories Of You”. It was nominated for Album of the Year and won the GRAMMY for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

Released in 1974, Linda Ronstadt's masterpiece "Heart Like A Wheel" went to number one, sold two million copies, spent an entire year on the charts and earned Ronstadt her first Grammy Award. Hit singles such as You're No Good and When Will I Be Loved not only helped secure Ronstadt's reputation, but contributed to the development of the emerging country rock genre.

What's New is an album of traditional pop standards released by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt in 1983. It represents the first in a trilogy of 1980s albums Ronstadt recorded with bandleader/arranger Nelson Riddle.