Disc: 1
1. Silver Threads and Golden Needles
2. Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
3. Tracks of My Tears
4. Love Is a Rose
5. That''ll Be the Day
6. Blue Bayou
7. Someone to Lay Down Beside Me
8. Love Has No Pride
9. It's So Easy
10. Different Drum - Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys

Disc: 2
1. Tumbling Dice
2. Back in the U.S.A.
3. Ooh Baby Baby
4. Just One Look
5. Hurt So Bad
6. Heat Wave
7. You're No Good
8. Get Closer
9. I Knew You When
10. Long, Long Time

Disc: 3
1. When Will I Be Loved
2. When Something Is Wrong with My Baby - Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt
3. Someone to Watch Over Me
4. All My Life - Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt
5. How Do I Make You
6. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
7. What's New
8. Easy for You to Say
9. Don't Know Much - Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt
10. Winter Light 2009

Linda Ronstadt’s voice was one of music’s great treasures, anchoring hits like “When Will I Be Loved” and “You’re No Good” and crossing genres. With more than 50 million albums sold worldwide and more than 30 Gold and Platinum records, 10 Grammy Awards and membership in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ronstadt is a consummate American artist. Sadly, Parkinson’s Disease has silenced her singing voice, which inspired her to write the memoir Simple Dreams and embark on a mission to raise awareness of the debilitating disease. Like her memoir, the evening will be full of captivating stories from this remarkable and courageous woman who helped define the music that dominated the American 1970s. - --roythomsonhall.com

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01. Still Within The Sound Of My Voice 
02. Cry Like A Rainstorm 				play
03. All My Life (Featuring Aaron Neville) 
04. I Need You (Featuring Aaron Neville) 
05. Don't Know Much (Featuring Aaron Neville) 
06. Adios 
07. Trouble Again 
08. I Keep It Hid 
09. So Right, So Wrong 
10. Shattered 
11. When Something Is Wrong With My Baby (Featuring Aaron Neville) 
12. Goodbye My Friend					play

An album that defines virtually everything that is right about adult contemporary pop--and yes, there are a few things--Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind contains lush, orchestrated arrangements of songs by first-rate tunesmiths such as Jimmy Webb, Eric Kaz, Paul Carrack, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill, Isaac Hayes, and Karla Bonoff. Four cuts, including the Grammy-winning "Don't Know Much," feature duets between Ronstadt (still singing with power and assurance even at the top of her range) and angel-voiced Aaron Neville. Other highlights include "Adios," with multitracked background vocals by Brian Wilson, and the title song, which is driven to new heights by the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra and the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir. Beautiful stuff. ---Daniel Durchholz

This is one of those albums from the 1980s where you wish you could get into a time machine and go back to the production crew and scream: "Don't! No tinkly keyboards! No synth drums! No Jaco Pastorius-style bass! I know you don't believe me, but in a few years this is going to become as dated as that silly haircut you're wearing." So great are the songs and singing performances on this album, this may be the most poignant example of bad 80s contamination. Nonetheless, this album gets five stars because, most of the time, it overcomes the problem, and on a few cuts, manages to avert it (maybe someone DID show up in a time machine.) Some of the very best songs are little known. The duets with Aaron Neville are rightfully celebrated--including the hits "Don't Know Much" and "When Something is Wrong with my Baby"--they are wonderful performances.

But this album also represented a comeback/last hurrah for a couple of great songwriters. Jimmy Webb, whose "Easy for You to Say" is one of Ronstadt's best songs, is the writer of four songs to this collection, and all of them are terrific. One of them, "Adios," is a masterpiece, capturing with rich irony and sadness the end of the Southern California dream. The fact that it's not only Linda Ronstadt, the 70s LA queen, but that she's backed by the (then-reclusive) Brian Wilson, the inventor of the Southern California pop scene-- it's all too much! But it dances elegantly on the head of a pin, with a melody that will haunt you. The other masterpiece on this album is by a writer that Linda Ronstadt has covered previously many times, Eric Kaz's "Cry Like a Rainstorm." This is a really daring cut with a nearly dissonant melody line that gives Ronstadt a chance to open up vocally and emotionally. It's an unbelievable performance, heightened by the addition of a gospel choir, a full orchestra, and some big guitar and drum work. It could be overkill, but the song is sturdy enough to handle it, and Ronstadt has the ability to switch effortlessly from operatic power to folk delicacy.

Two cuts by British pub rocker Paul Carrack (co written by Nick Lowe) break the intense mood, and are charming. Although it was produced by her 70s producer Peter Asher, the orchestra, choir, Neville and the more adult-focused songwriting make this is a unique and essential album in her canon. ---John Stodder

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01. I Can Almost See It (John David Souther) – 3:50
02. Love Has No Pride (Eric Kaz, Libby Titus) – 4:09
03. Silver Threads And Golden Needles (Dick Reynolds, Jack Rhodes) – 2:21
04. Desperado (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) – 3:29
05. Don't Cry Now (John David Souther) – 4:26
06. Sail Away (Randy Newman) – 3:05
07. Colorado (Rick Roberts) – 4:17
08. The Fast One (John David Souther) – 3:39
09. Everybody Loves A Winner (Bill Williams, Booker T. Jones) – 3:17
10. I Believe In You (Neil Young) – 2:49

Personnel:
- Linda Ronstadt – vocals, tabla, tambourine
- Ed Black, Richard Bowden, Larry Carlton, Jerry McGee, Rick Roberts, Andy Johnson – guitar
- Michael Bowden, Chris Ethridge, Leland Sklar – bass
- John Boylan, Craig Doerge, Spooner Oldham – piano
- Buddy Emmons – pedal steel guitar
- Jimmie Fadden – harmonica
- Glenn Frey – harmony vocals
- Gib Guilbeau – fiddle
- Mickey McGee, Dennis St. John, Russ Kunkel – drums
- Herb Pedersen – guitar, backing vocals
- John David Souther – bass, guitar, backing vocals
- Sneaky Pete Kleinow – guitar, pedal steel guitar
- Ginger Holladay, Mary Holliday, Shirley Matthews, Marti McCall, Clydie King, Wendy Waldman – backing vocals
- Mack Johnson, Mackinley Johnson, Darrell Leonard – trumpet
- Jim Gordon, Nino Tempo – saxophone
- Gail Martin – trombone

This major 1973 release finds Ronstadt still solidifying her position as rock's premier interpretive singer. The country rock of the Eagles and producer/writer John David Souther remains the idiom, but Ronstadt has the voice, style and background to deliver this commercialized roots music with little loss of authenticity. Unlike Bonnie Raitt or Janis, she is relatively free of blues or R&B influence. In another singer this might seem a liability, but it allows Rondstadt unusually direct access to the emotional wellsprings of the country and folk which defined post-sixties rock music. Whether on the Eagles' own "Desperado," the country warhorse "Silver Threads And Golden Needles" or Neil Young's "I Believe In You," Rondstadt's powerful contralto emerges as a representative voice of a musical generation just coming of age. ---cduniverse.com

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01. Love Is A Rose
02. Hey Mister, That's Me Up On The Jukebox	play
03. Roll Um Easy
04. Tracks Of My Tears
05. Prisoner In Disguise
06. Heat Wave
07. Many Rivers To Cross		play
08. The Sweetest Gift
09. You Tell Me That I'm Falling Down
10. I Will Always Love You
11. Silver Blue

"Hey mister, that's me up on the jukebox," Linda Ronstadt sings on her 1975 album Prisoner in Disguise, and it was no idle boast. The album yielded two of her finest singles, thanks to the retooled Motown classics "Heat Wave" and "Tracks of My Tears." The album's support material is just as strong, ranging from a banjo-strumming version of Neil Young's "Love Is a Rose" to a plaintive pop reading of Jimmy Cliff's reggae classic "Many Rivers to Cross." There's also a simple but lovely cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" that predates Whitney Houston's glass-shattering take on it (for the movie The Bodyguard) by more than a decade and a half. One thing about Ronstadt and producer-manager Peter Asher: they knew good material when they heard it and almost always turned it into something truly special. ---Daniel Durchholz

This is a classic Ronstadt album, recorded when she was really in her prime, busy cranking out the volume of hits and those seemingly effortless and sometimes facile interpretations of other people's songs, showing just how original an artist she was. Like the legendary Johnny Rivers, who always seemed to have a magical touch for turning other people's work into brilliant covers and best-selling albums, Ronstadt here does a star turn with other people's songs.

The title tune, written by friend and collaborator JD Souther, "Prisoner In Disguise" is a haunting, powerfully performed song. Then too, James Taylor's "Hey Mister, That's Me Up On The Jukebox," is powerfully interpreted. "Heat Wave" and "Tracks of My Tears" are sizzling, as is a banjo-strumming version of Neil Young's "Love Is a Rose". She soars with an interpretation of Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross," and a lovely effort at blue-eyed soul with Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You". I personally preferred this version of the song, which is quite beautiful without the vocal histrionics of the Whitney Houston recording, which I think ruin the song as a vehicle. All in all, this is a terrific album and one that is really a showcase for Linda at her very best. Enjoy! ---Barron Laycock

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01. It's So Easy 
02. Carmelita 
03. Simple Man, Simple Dream 
04. Sorrow Lives Here 
05. I Never Will Marry 
06. Blue Bayou 		play
07. Poor Poor Pitiful Me 	play
08. Maybe I'm Right 
09. Tumbling Dice 
10. Old Paint

Acoustic Guitar – Dan Dugmore (tracks: A1, A2, B2), Linda Ronstadt (tracks: A5, B5),
 Waddy Wachtel (tracks: A2, A5, B1, B3)
Backing Vocals – Kenny Edwards (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2, B4, B5), Linda Ronstadt (tracks: A1, B5),
 Peter Asher (tracks: A1, B3, B5), Waddy Wachtel (tracks: A1, A2, B3, B4)
Bass – Kenny Edwards (tracks: A1 to A3, B1 to B4)
Clavinet – Don Grolnick (tracks: A1, B2)
Drums – Rick Marotta (tracks: A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B4)
Electric Guitar – Waddy Wachtel (tracks: A1, A2, B2 to B4)
Electric Piano – Don Grolnick (tracks: A3, B1)
Electronic Drums [Syn-drums] – Rick Marotta (tracks: A2, B1, B2)
Guitar [Dobro] – Mike Auldridge (tracks: A5, B5)
Piano – Don Grolnick (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2, B4, B5)
Steel Guitar – Dan Dugmore (tracks: A3, B1)

On its face, Simple Dreams seems a crazy quilt of styles, from the friendly country-rock remake of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy," the brooding covers of Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou," and Dolly Parton's "I Never Will Marry" to dissolute tales of rock & roll madness like the Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice" and Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" and "Poor Poor Pitiful Me." Yet Ronstadt is able to keep it all together, proving her interpretive depth and stylistic breadth all at once. Simple Dreams is perhaps Ronstadt's most adventurous rock-oriented album, and, with the exception of the drum sounds, which indelibly identify this as a product of the '70s, it still works. --Daniel Durchholz

Featuring a broader array of styles than any previous Linda Ronstadt record, Simple Dreams reconfirms her substantial talents as an interpretive singer. Ronstadt sings Dolly Parton ("I Never Will Marry") with the same conviction as the Rolling Stones ("Tumbling Dice"), and she manages to update Roy Orbison ("Blue Bayou") and direct attention to the caustic, fledgling singer/songwriter Warren Zevon ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me" and "Carmelita"). The consistently adventurous material and Ronstadt's powerful performance makes the record rival Heart Like a Wheel in sheer overall quality. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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01 - What's New
02 - I've Got A Crush On You
03 - Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
04 - Crazy He Calls Me
05 - Someone To Watch Over Me
06 - I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
07 - What'll I Do
08 - Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
09 - Good-Bye

Oscar Brashear 	Trumpet
Ray Brown 	Bass
Dennis Budimir 	Guitar
Bob Cooper 	Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
Don Grolnick 	Keyboards, Piano
John Guerin 	Drums
Jim Hughart 	Bass
Plas Johnson 	Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
Nelson Riddle 	Arranger, Conductor, Orchestra
Linda Ronstadt 	Primary Artist, Vocals
Tommy Tedesco 	Guitar
Anthony Terran 	Trumpet
Tony Terran 	Trumpet
Chauncey Welsch 	Trombone 

Instead of trying to compete with a newer, fashion-conscious pop marketplace, Linda Ronstadt removed herself from the rat race, recording an album of traditional pop standards with Nelson Riddle. Ronstadt's voice isn't always showcased to a fine effect on these songs, but the record is an interesting change of pace. And it would have been more interesting if she hadn't repeated its formula on her next two records. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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