Linda Ronstadt - We Ran
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Artist: Linda RonstadtEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-06-23
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- When We Ran
- If I Should Fall Behind
- Give Me A Reason
- Ruler Of My Heart
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- Cry 'Til My Tears Run Dry
- I Go To Pieces
- Heartbreak Kind
- Damage
- Icy Blue Heart
- Dreams Of The San Joaquin
Music reviews of We Ran
Music Review: Less is... sometimes just enough
Rating: 5 Stars
In this little-known collection of traditional, folk, blues and pop tunes, Linda Ronstadt holds her powerful voice pretty much under firm control. Rather than dominating the material with dynamic, bombastic vocals, she subordinates her voice to the material and allows her interpretive skills to do the work, conveying feelings and ideas in a more restrained, subtle way than in most of her pop/rock work prior to this 1998 album.
The title track is a strong opener, a bluesy anthem of sorts, in which Linda reflects on what might have been. "If I Should Fall Behind" is a simple but achingly beautiful ballad about bittersweet regret over a relationship that should have worked out, but didn't. The art of whispering plays a part in two of the tracks, in very different ways. In "Give Me A Reason", Linda asks in a very audible, teasing, affected whisper, "Give me a reason why we fuss and fight...why I have to spend these lonely nights." But in "I Go To Pieces", her fragile, defeated whisper is totally sincere. There are three songs that are "torchy" to different degrees. "Ruler Of My Heart" was a hit by New Orleans blues queen Irma Thomas in the 60's; the mood is resigned but hopeful. "Cry Til My Tears Run Dry" is the one track in which Linda unleashes the "belting" power that we all know so well. And in "Damage", she is torn by conflicting emotions, trapped in a relationship that has ruined her. One minute she is determined and confident about leaving, the next minute in despair that she can't, until finally, she simply says: "Look at the damage you've done." Our chameleon-like singer even does justice to Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", a cover of the long and strange folk-rock classic that few artists would attempt. The album closes with a quietly uplifting song, "Dreams Of The San Joaquin".
I also want to mention that there is very good instrumentation throughout, notably the piano on "Ruler Of My Heart"; the guitar work on "We Ran", 'Tom Thumb's Blues" and ""Heartbreak Kind"; the sax on "Cry Til My Tears Run Dry" and "Ruler Of My Heart"; and the organ on several tracks. Even though, or maybe because, this album is underrated to the point of being practically unknown, and even though it was a commercial failure, I highly recommend that music lovers check it out.
Description of We Ran
Thirty albums into her career, not much uncharted territory remains for Linda Ronstadt, who has shown herself willing, if not always able, to work in any genre. We Ran is a lush but earthy reexamination of material by Bruce Springsteen, John Hiatt, and Doc Pomus. If matching her with Dylan's "Tom Thumb's Blues" sounds like an exercise in futility, Waddy Wachtel's tremolo guitar, the Booker T.-like soulfulness of the band, and Ronstadt's sweetly weary voice suggest otherwise. Primary producer Glyn Johns (the Rolling Stones, the Who) makes smart choices--though George Massenburg and Wachtel turn "I Go to Pieces" into a breath-fest--and the musicianship of Bernie Leadon and the Heartbreakers keeps pace with Ronstadt's serene vocal ease. --Roy KastenBroadway & Vocalists CDs
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