Linda Ronstadt - Hand Sown Home Grown / Silk Purse
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Artist: Linda RonstadtEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-10-13
Music Label: Raven [Australia]
Soundtracks:
- Baby You've Been on My Mind
- Silver Threads and Golden Needles
- Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad
- A Number and a Name
- The Only Mama That'll Walk the Line
- The Long Way Around
- Break My Mind
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
- It's About Time
- We Need a Lot More of Jesus (And a Lot Less Rock & Roll)
- The Dolphins
- Lovesick Blues
- Are My Thoughts with You?
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
- Nobodys
- Louise
- Long Long Time
- Mental Revenge
- I'm Leavin' It All Up to You
- He Darked the Sun
- Life Is Like a Mountain Railway
- (She's A) Very Lovely Woman [*]
Music reviews of Hand Sown Home Grown / Silk Purse
Music Review: Linda's Landmark C&W/Rock Albums...And A BIG Bonus
Rating: 5 Stars
In a career studded by eclecticism--from opera to art songs; big-band jazz to Mexican rancheras; and much more--it can sometimes get lost in the shuffle (as certainly seems to be the case with the powers-that-be who run the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) that Linda Ronstadt was and still is considered very much a pioneer in the country-rock movement that erupted out of Southern California during the late 1960s. And while her efforts, like those of such fellow travellers as Poco and the Flying Burrito Brothers, were often misunderstood in ther day, they nevertheless set the table for what came in later years. And now, Australian import label Raven has sought to re-release Linda's first two albums--HAND SOWN, HOME GROWN; SILK PURSE--to hopefully cement the deal. Not only that, however, they have been cagey enough to finally put on CD the long-lost singles-only release that came in the wake of those two albums.
HAND SOWN, HOME GROWN, released in the spring of 1969, is, for all intents and purposes, the first true female alternative country album, with Linda essaying not only contemporary folk-rock songs from Bob Dylan and Fred Neil, but also high-prized country standards like "Silver Threads And Golden Needles"; the oft-covered "Break My Mind"; and a blackly comic version of "The Only Mama That'll Walk The Line." As opposed to similar neo-country efforts made around that same time by Linda's fellow folkies Buffy Sainte-Marie and Joan Baez in Nashville, HAND SOWN was recorded with the cream of the crop of L.A.'s C&W/rock session mafia, including the late, great Clarence White. Commercially, this album was a bomb; in terms of what it launched, though, it was anything but.
SILK PURSE, released in the spring of 1970, may remain Linda's one and only sojourn into the heart of Music Row. It is also an album that she has all but disowned, because of what she felt was her inability to convey the California approach to country to the Nashville session guys she worked with here, even with Elliot Mazer (who was recommended to Linda by no less than Janis Joplin) doing the production. Still, the album, though initially noted for its provocative cover of Linda in the barnyard with the pigs, boasts solid performances of the Dillard and Clark mini-standard "He Dark The Sun", the Hank Williams classic "Lovesick Blues", and, last but not least, the incredible ballad "Long Long Time", which hit #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1970 and nearly netted Linda her first Grammy, for Best Contemporary Female Vocal Performance.
But the real icing on the cake of this set is the bonus track, that long-lost, singles-only release that Linda recorded at Muscle Shoals during the summer of 1970: "She's A Very Lovely Woman", written by Emmit Rhodes of the 1960s group Merry-Go-Round. Its obscure nature is due not only to the fact that it had never been put on an album release, but also to the fact that it stalled out at #70 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1971 (though it peaked at #17 on the Adult Contemporary Chart). But it shows that Linda is able to handle what is in essence a purely pop-rock song, with shimmering electric guitars and tasteful orchestration. It is one of those gems that needs to be a part of any Ronstadtphile's collection.
Even though Linda may not have been proud of this particular period in her life (in fact, she is tough to please with ANYTHING having to do with her), this collection of her first two albums of C&W/rock, along with the additional bonus of "She's A Very Lovely Woman", gives one an idea of what was to come not only from her, but also the four generations of like-minded female artists, from her good pal Emmylou Harris all the way up to Lucinda Williams and Tift Merritt. This is a solid recommendation.
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Description of Hand Sown Home Grown / Silk Purse
Raven presents two classic, original country-rock albums by the multi-platinum selling and Grammy Award winning singer LINDA RONSTADT, one of the most popular American performers of the last 35 years. Hand Sown... Home Grown (Capitol, 1969) and Silk Purse (Capitol, 1970) find Linda establishing her unique country rock voice and setting the template for the multi-platinum albums that were to follow. These two albums pointed the way and it wasn't long before she hit #1 with both the album Heart Like a Wheel and single 'You're No Good', becoming the darling of the Californian country-rock tradition in the process. Linda had already been a member of hit LA folk-rock group The Stone Poneys ('Different Drum') when she struck out on her own with Hand Sown... Home Grown. It features excellent covers of Bob Dylan's 'Baby You've Been on My Mind', John D. Loudermilk's 'Break My Mind', Fred Neil's 'Dolphins', Randy Newman's 'Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad' and the popular 'Silver Threads and Golden Needles'. Silk Purse boasts a more organic country soul flavour on her passionate version of 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow?' and her first solo hit single 'Long Long Time' while 'Lovesick Blues' is a vibrant Brenda Lee-styled country-rocker. Also includes her second hit the non-album '(She's a) Very Lovely Woman' added as a bonus track, on CD for the first time. With superb quality audio, detailed liner notes, colour booklet.Country CDs
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