Early 1969 found Linda Ronstadt leaving her previous band The Stone Poneys behind and embarking upon a solo career which would become one of the most commercially successful in music history. She would, over time, record dozens of albums, placing 36 of them on the national charts in the United States. Her singles, which charted consistently, received massive airplay during the seventies and eighties. Her success has garnered Ronstadt 11 Grammy Awards, over 100 million albums sold, and recognition as one of the premiere female artists of her generation.<\/p>\n
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Hand Sown \u2026Home Grown<\/i> was her first solo album, released in March of 1969. It was not an auspicious debut, as it sold less than 20,000 copies and failed to crack the top 200 album charts in the States. What it did do, though, was establish her hybrid country\/rock sound which she would hone to perfection during the next few years.<\/p>\n
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The album is comprised of an eclectic group of songs, helping to establish her as an interpreter of other songwriters\u2019 material. While the album would produce no enduring performances, when taken as a whole, it comes across as a solid effort 50 years later.<\/p>\n
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She tackles two Dylan tunes with good results. \u201cBaby You Been On My Mind\u201d and \u201cI\u2019ll Be Your Baby Tonight\u201d are interesting interpretations as Ronstadt\u2019s powerful vocals give them a different feel than the originals. The best tracks are her gentle renditions of Fred Neil\u2019s \u201cThe Dolphins\u201d and old bandmate Ken Edwards\u2019 \u201cThe Long Way Around.\u201d Randy Newman\u2019s \u201cBet No One Ever Hurt This Bad\u201d served as a perfect vehicle for her to just cut loose and let her voice soar.<\/p>\n
Linda Ronstadt toured constantly during this period of her career, opening for such acts as Jackson Browne, The Doors, and Neil Young, building a fan base which would stay with her through the years.<\/p>\n
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Hand Sown \u2026 Home Grown<\/i> may not be her best album and probably doesn\u2019t even rank in the top 10 of her impressive catalog. Still, for the initial release by one of the superstars of American music, it still makes for a nice listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":34806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8264],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-46670","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-linda-ronstadt","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46670","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=46670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46670"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}