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Track Listing
1. It's So Easy
2. I Can't Let Go
3. Hurt So Bad
4. Blue Bayou
5. How Do I Make You
6. Back in the U.S.A
7. Ooh Baby Baby
8. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
9. Tumbling Dice
10. Just One Look
11. Someone to Lay Down Beside Me
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Linda Ronstadt (vocals); Dan Dugmore (acoustic, electric & steel guitars); Waddy Wachtel (electric & slide guitar, background vocals); Charles Veal (violin); Dennis Karmazyn (cello); David Sanborn (saxophone); Don Grolnick (acoustic & electric piano, clavinet); Andrew Gold (piano, clavinet); Bill Payne (keyboards); Steve Forman (marimba); Kenny Edwards (bass, mandolin, background vocals); Russ Kunkel (drums); Rick Marotta (drums, syn-drums, cowbell); Peter Asher (tambourine, maracas, cowbell, background vocals); Karla Bonoff, Don Henley, Nicolette Larson (background vocals).
Recorded at The Sound Factory & Record One, Los Angeles, California from 1976 to 1979.
This eclectic collection circa '76-'80 underscores a newfound rock & roll assertiveness in the rootsy rock diva as she gleefully covers material like Chuck Berry's "Back in the U.S.A." and the Stones' "Tumbling Dice." In fact, one can hear the not-so-distant rumbles of the punk rock revolution as Rondstadt gives Deborah Harry a run for her money on "How Do I Make You."
In another context, one also hears the natural Mexicali strains emerging on her beautifully realized version of Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou," a decade before the two groundbreaking collections of Mexican songs dedicated to her father. Continuing her established practice of introducing the best in singer-songwriters, we have her definitive takes on Warren Zevon's "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" and Karla Bonoff's haunting "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me."
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