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Bright Song Style Of Linda Ronstadt Lights Up Fillmore
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By Mike Jahn
May 9, 1971
Linda Ronstadt sang at the Fillmore East this weekend. That she doesn't appear here more often should be declared a crime against humanity.
The petite singer from Tucson, Ariz., was backed at the Fillmore by a rock quintet, which is a very fine ensemble. The combination of her warm, country‐flavored voice and the band's precise, exciting blues rock was a near‐perfect rock ‘n’ roll, just a fascinating moment.
Miss Ronstadt's voice is hickory‐solid, yet capable of zooming up and rounding really lyrical curves, or of speaking in a quiet hush.
Her music is basically country and folk. Such songs as Hank Williams's “Lovesick Blues,” Livingston Taylor's “In My Reply,” Bob Dylan's “I'll Be Your Baby Tonight,” and the country and western standard, “Break My Mind,” are in her repertory. But her band plays a gorgeous hard rock, driven by the solid rhythm guitar of Glenn Frey. The hand is of the same caliber as that of Full Tilt Boogie, the late Janis Joplin's group. Their music rests on blues rhythms like a silver boulder. The combination of this force and Miss Ronstadt's singing raises the possibilities for the category rock‐bandwith‐girl‐singer by several notches.
Linda Ronstadt and her group really are an exceptional combination, one that, it is hoped, will spend more time in New York.
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By Mike Jahn
May 9, 1971
Bright Song Style Of Linda Ronstadt Lights Up Fillmore
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Linda Ronstadt sang at the Fillmore East this weekend. That she doesn't appear here more often should be declared a crime against humanity.
The petite singer from Tucson, Ariz., was backed at the Fillmore by a rock quintet, which is a very fine ensemble. The combination of her warm, country‐flavored voice and the band's precise, exciting blues rock was a near‐perfect rock ‘n’ roll, just a fascinating moment.
Miss Ronstadt's voice is hickory‐solid, yet capable of zooming up and rounding really lyrical curves, or of speaking in a quiet hush.
Her music is basically country and folk. Such songs as Hank Williams's “Lovesick Blues,” Livingston Taylor's “In My Reply,” Bob Dylan's “I'll Be Your Baby Tonight,” and the country and western standard, “Break My Mind,” are in her repertory. But her band plays a gorgeous hard rock, driven by the solid rhythm guitar of Glenn Frey. The hand is of the same caliber as that of Full Tilt Boogie, the late Janis Joplin's group. Their music rests on blues rhythms like a silver boulder. The combination of this force and Miss Ronstadt's singing raises the possibilities for the category rock‐bandwith‐girl‐singer by several notches.
Linda Ronstadt and her group really are an exceptional combination, one that, it is hoped, will spend more time in New York.