Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind (1976) Music

Posted by Designol at March 15, 2024

Hasten Down the Wind is the Grammy Award-winning seventh studio album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. Released in 1976, it became her third straight million-selling album. Ronstadt was the first female artist in history to accomplish this feat. The album earned her a Grammy Award for 'Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female' in 1977, her second of 13 Grammys. 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 that point. A more serious and poignant album than its predecessors, it won critical acclaim. The album showcased songs from artists such as Warren Zevon ("Hasten Down the Wind") and Karla Bonoff ("Someone to Lay Down Beside Me"), both of whom would soon be making a name for themselves in the singer-songwriter world.

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Linda Ronstadt - The '80s Collection (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Jan. 20, 2023

With roots in the Los Angeles country and folk-rock scenes, Linda Ronstadt became one of the most popular interpretive singers of the '70s, earning a string of platinum-selling albums and Top 40 singles. Throughout the '70s, her laid-back pop never lost sight of her folky roots, yet as she moved into the '80s, she began to change her sound with the times, adding new wave influences. After a brief flirtation with pre-rock pop, Ronstadt settled into a pattern of adult contemporary pop and Latin albums, sustaining her popularity in both fields. This collection features seven of Linda Ronstadt's albums from the 1980s.

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Linda Ronstadt - The '70s Collection (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Jan. 20, 2023

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.

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Linda Ronstadt - The Very Best Of Linda Ronstadt (2002) 23 Tracks Edition Music

Posted by Designol at April 30, 2024

If Rhino had merely combined Linda Ronstadt's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 and volume two, they would have a compilation that captured her at her peak. They didn't do that for 2002's The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt, but they did follow that basic blueprint very closely, with 16 of the 21 songs culled from her '70s heyday, with the remaining five drawing from her late-'80s/early-'90s adult contemporary comeback, including "Don't' Know Much" and "Somewhere out There." That these songs don't quite fit musically with the laid-back Californian soft rock of the '70s doesn't matter, nor does it matter that her excursions into other genres – her traditional pop albums with Nelson Riddle, her Mexican records, her country albums with Trio – are missing ("Different Drum" with the Stone Poneys is here), because this collection expertly delivers her biggest hits in an enjoyable fashion with very little fat. Those original hits records remain first-rate, but it's nicer to get all of these on one disc instead of two.

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Original Album Series: Linda Ronstadt (2009) [5CD Box Set] Re-up Music

Posted by v3122 at Nov. 8, 2020

Original Album Series: Linda Ronstadt (2009)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Rhino, 8122 798285 | ~ 1033 or 448 Mb | Scans(300dpi, jpg)
Country / Country Rock / Pop

This set combines five of Linda Ronstadt's albums for Asylum Records released between 1975 and 1980 and all produced by Peter Asher, 1975's Prisoner in Disguise, 1976's Hasten Down the Wind, 1977's Simple Dreams, 1978's Living in the U.S.A., and 1980's Mad Love, which means one gets Ronstadt's fine versions of Neil Young's "Love Is a Rose," Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day," Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou," and many other covers done while she was at the peak of her radio success…

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Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like A Wheel (1974) [Audio Fidelity, AFZ 034] Music

Posted by v3122 at April 9, 2021

Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like A Wheel (1974)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2009 | Audio Fidelity, AFZ 034 | ~ 181 or 74 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 32 Mb
Folk Rock / Country Rock

Following the same formula as her early records, Heart Like a Wheel doesn't appear to be a great breakthrough on the surface. However, Ronstadt comes into her own on this mix of oldies and contemporary classics…

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Linda Ronstadt - Get Closer (1982) Music

Posted by Designol at June 2, 2023

Get Closer is the eleventh studio album by singer, songwriter and producer Linda Ronstadt, released in 1982. Get Closer found Ronstadt returning to the genres that had resulted in her commercial and critical success throughout the 1970s, and working again with British musician and producer Peter Asher. Ronstadt was nominated in early 1983 for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance Female and Best Rock Vocal Performance Female for the album and the song "Get Closer", losing to Melissa Manchester and Pat Benatar respectively. The album did, however, win the Grammy for Best Album Package, an art director's award. The trophy went to well known designers Ron Larson and Kosh.

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Linda Ronstadt - Live in Los Angeles 1980 (2019) Music

Posted by Rtax at April 14, 2024

Linda Ronstadt - Live in Los Angeles 1980 (2019)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 195 MB
1:18:46 | Country Rock, Soft Rock | Label: Cult Legends

Linda Ronstadt began as the clear-voiced, country-influenced singer for '60s folk-rockers the Stone Poneys, where she covered tunes by the likes of Mike Nesmith and Tim Buckley. That knack for choosing material served her well in the second half of the '70s, when she became a pop superstar interpreting songs by everyone from Dave Edmunds and Elvis Costello to Chuck Berry and Roy Orbison. Subsequently, she has shown her diversity by cutting albums of jazz standards, traditional Mexican music, and pure country.

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Linda Ronstadt - The Sound Of My Voice (2019) Music

Posted by v3122 at April 16, 2022

Linda Ronstadt - The Sound Of My Voice (2019)
Blu-ray: MPEG-4 AVC 1080p, 23,976 fps, 16:9, High Profile 4.1
DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 & 5.1, 48 kHz, 24-bit
Music Documentary | 01:33:52+00:07:37 | ~ 22.83 Gb

Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music and soul…

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Linda Ronstadt - Greatest Hits (1976) Music

Posted by Designol at April 22, 2022

Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 is a good 12-track collection of Linda Ronstadt's biggest hits from the early '70s, beginning with the Stone Poneys' "Different Drum" and running through "Tracks of My Tears," from 1975's Prisoner in Disguise. In between, all of her best-known songs – "You're No Good," "When Will I Be Loved," "Heat Wave" – are included, plus selected minor hits, making it an excellent overview of her peak years.

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