Linda Ronstadt was a star by 1975. Her Heart Like A Wheel <\/i>album had topped the American pop charts and spawned two huge hit singles. Prisoner In Disguise, <\/i>released in September of 1975, only increased her popularity. It would earn her another Platinum Record Award and contained two more hit singles and a top five country release as well.<\/p>\n
This album was one of her most versatile; pop, Motown, country, and even a Jimmy Cliff tune would fall under her interpretive spell. She and producer Peter Asher had a knack for selecting just the right songs for her style and voice.<\/p>\n
Her first foray into the Motown catalogue produced two hits. She gives a pure and emotional vocal of the old Smokey Robinson ballad, \u201cThe Tracks Of My Tears,\u201d and she moves the Martha And The Vandellas classic \u201cHeat Wave\u201d over to a pop masterpiece.<\/p>\n
As with many of Ronstadt\u2019s releases, it is the ballads that truly shine. Her cover of the Neil Young penned \u201cLove Is A Rose\u201d was another in the long line of country hits for her. A little banjo and her powerful vocal added up to a memorable performance. I have always preferred her gentle version of Dolly Parton\u2019s \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d over Whitney Houston\u2019s histrionic rendition, which topped the American pop charts for fourteen weeks during 1992. <\/p>\n
The rest of the album is comprised by an eclectic group of material, which she was so good at gathering and making interesting. \u201cRoll Um Easy\u201d features wonderful and precise phasing, with Lowell George providing some expert slide guitar on his own tune. Jimmy Cliff\u2019s \u201cMany Rivers To Cross\u201d has a rare gospel feel for Ronstadt. James Taylor\u2019s \u201cHey Mister, That\u2019s Me Up There On The Jukebox\u201d is both quirky and entertaining, while \u201cThe Sweetest Gift\u201d is an early collaboration with Emmylou Harris.<\/p>\n
Prisoner In Disguise <\/i>was the second of seven albums for Ronstadt that would become some of the most commercially successful in pop history, cementing her status as a music superstar. It remains mid-\u201870s pop\/country at its best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":30289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8264],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-41943","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-linda-ronstadt","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41943"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}