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Post by the Scribe on Mar 22, 2020 21:30:40 GMT
Released: August 1976 Label: Asylum Recorded: May-July 1976 Produced by: Peter Asher Currently available: Yes, regular CD is still in print. Also available as part of the European Original Album Series set
Side 1: 1.Lose Again (Karla Bonoff) (3:34) 2.The Tattler (Ry Cooder/Russ Titelman/Washington Philips) (3:56) 3.If He's Ever Near (Karla Bonoff) (3:15) 4.That'll Be The Day (Buddy Holly/Norman Petty/Jerry Allison) (2:32) 5.Lo Siento Mi Vida (Linda Ronstadt/Kenny Edwards/Gilbert Ronstadt) (3:54) 6.Hasten Down The Wind (Warren Zevon) (2:40)
Side 2 7.Rivers Of Babylon (Brent Dowe/Trevor Naughton) (0:52) 8.Give One Heart (John Hall/Johanna Hall) (4:07) 9.Try Me Again (Linda Ronstadt/Andrew Gold) (3:59) 10.Crazy (Willie Nelson) (3:58) 11.Down So Low (Tracy Nelson) (4:08) 12.Someone To Lay Down Beside Me (Karla Bonoff) (4:28)
Musicians: Linda Ronstadt: Vocals, Handclaps Andrew Gold: Organ Keyboards, ARP Synth, Finger Cymbals, Sleigh Bells, Handclaps, Clavinet, Background Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Pianos, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Clavichord Dan Dugmore: Electric Guitar, Steel Guitar Wendy Waldman: Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocals Peter Asher: Guitar, Woodblock, Shaker, Handclaps, Tambourine, Percussion, Background Vocals Clarence McDonald: Piano, Keyboards Kenny Edwards: Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Background Vocals Richard Feves: Bass Guitar, Double Bass Russ Kunkel: Drums Michael Botts: Drums Don Henley: Drums, Lead and Harmony Vocals Paul Polivnick: Viola Ken Yerke: Violin, Viola David Campbell: Viola Charles Veal: Violin Dennis Karmazyn: Cello Herb Pedersen: Background Vocals Bill Thedford: Vocals, Choir, Chorus Ron Hickland: Choir, Chorus Gerry Garrett: Choir, Chorus Sherlie Matthews: Backrgound Vocals Clydie King: Vocals, Choir, Chorus Jim Gilstrap: Vocals, Choir, Chorus Pat Henderson: Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Background Vocals Ron Hicklin: Vocals Becky Louis: Background Vocals Karla Bonoff: Background Vocals
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 10, 2020 8:34:18 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 10, 2020 9:21:55 GMT
from Waddy Wachtel waddywachtelinfo.com/AndrewGold.htmlWaddy commented that Andrew's band was Linda's band which included the same tour and players.
Andrew Gold What's Wrong With This Picture? - Album and Tour
What’s Wrong With This Picture? 1976 Label: Elektra
Tracks: 1. Hope You Feel Good (A. Gold) 2. Passing Thing (A. Gold) 3. Do Wah Diddy Diddy (E. Greenwich, J. Barry) 4. Learning the Game (B. Holly) 5. Angel Woman (A. Gold) 6. Must Be Crazy (A. Gold) 7. Lonely Boy (A. Gold) 8. Firefly (A. Gold) 9. Stay (M. Williams) 10. Go Back Home Again (A. Gold) 11. One of Them Is Me (A. Gold)
Credits: Peter Asher - Background Vocals (3, 9), Handclaps (3, 6, 7, 9), Claves (9), Tambourine (11), Shaker (11) Michael Botts - Drums (4, 7, 9, 10, 11), Sleigh Bells (7) David Campbell - String and Horn Arrangements Tesse Coen - Congas (6, 9) Dan Dugmore - Steel Guitar (4, 11), Rhythm Guitar (7, 9), Guitar (10) Kenny Edwards - Bass (1, 7, 9, 11), Mandolin (4), Background Vocals (1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11) Val Garay - Background Vocals (3) Andrew Gold - Vocals (1 - 11), Bass (8), Guitar (8, 10), First Rhythm Guitar (3), Guitar Solo (3), Electric and Acoustic Guitar (9) Drums (8), Organ (6, 9), Piano (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10), Electric Piano (11), Tambourine (1, 4, 6, 10), Shaker (1), Recorder (1), Background Volcas (3, 6, 8, 9, 11), Handclaps (3, 6, 7, 9), Percussion (8), Synthesizer (8), Cabasa (9), Sandblocks (9), Congas (10), Tom Tom (10), Finger Cymbals (11) Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar - 2nd Rhythm Guitar (3), Electric Guitar (6) Russ Kunkel - Drums (1, 2, 3, 6) Clarence McDonald - Electric Piano (9) Don Menza - Shakuhachi (1), Saxophone Solo (6) Linda Ronstadt - Background Vocals (7, 9) Leland Sklar - Bass (2, 3, 6) Charles Veal Jr. - Concertmaster Waddy Wachtel - Guitar (1, 11), Lead and Solo Guitar (7), Bass (4) Brock Walsh - Electric Piano (7), Synthesizer (4, 7), Acoustic Gutar (11), Background Vocals (1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11)
Peter Asher - Producer Val Garay - Engineer Dennis Kirk - Assistant Engineer Greg Ladanyi - Assistant Engineer Doug Sax - Mastering
Andrew Gold on “Lonely Boy” Andrew - I sort of knew that it was a strong song and I knew that when we went in to arrange it with the band which was Linda Ronstadt's band. It was Mike Botts on Drums, Kenny Edwards on Bass, Guitar, Waddy Wachtel on Guitar and my self. We rehearsed it before we went out on tour and I was opening up for Linda (Ronstadt) during this period of 1976. We arranged it before we went out and originally the bridge was going to be this soft little thing and Waddy said. "Why don't you kick it up" to give it more energy so I thought okay lets try it and it sounded great. So, the band really had a good hand in the arrangement of that song. I played piano and the lead on that is Waddy not me. I will say that when we went out on tour that song was really popular even before people heard it on the radio, before it was a hit. I remember a couple of times people would applaud right after that big guitar solo. It was just very dramatic and so we sort of knew that it was going to be a big single. We cut it once after the first tour and then Peter (Asher) said, "I think we can get a better take" so we recorded it again.
“Lonely Boy” (on Midnight Special TV show - audio from the album)
"Hope You Feel Good"
"One of Them Is Me" (could this be about Linda? great song)
"Learning the Game"
1976 Tour
Andrew Gold was the Opening act on the Linda Ronstadt Hasten Down the Wind Tour. The same musicians in Linda's band backed Andrew on the tour as well.
Band members: Andrew Gold - Vocals, Piano, Guitar Waddy Wachtel - Guitar, Background Vocals Brock Walsh - Keyboards, Background Vocals Dan Dugmore - Guitar Kenny Edwards - Bass, Background Vocals Michael Botts - Drums
Partial Tour dates: 5/1 Hughes Stadium, Sacramento, CA 5/14 Capitol Center, Landover, MD 7/14 San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, CA 8/3 Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA 8/8 Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO 8/12 Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH 8/16 Myrtle Beach, SC 11/3 Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA 12/6 Music Hall (Wang Center), Boston, MA 12/12 Capitol Center, Landover, MD 12/19 The Summit, Houston, TX 11/8 Odeon Theatre Birmingham 11/10 Apollo Theatre Glasgow 11/12 New Victoria Theatre London 11/13 New Victoria Theatre London 11/16 Stadhalle, Offenbach, Germany (Rockplast) 11/17 Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany 11/21 Paradiso Amsterdam Holland
"Lonely Boy" at the Victoria Theater, London
Waddy Wachtel, Andrew Gold, Kenny Edwards, Michael Botts, Dan Dugmore 1976 tour (photo by Marty Temme)
More Andrew Gold:
Midnight Special TV show 1977 Video waddywachtelinfo.com/andrewgold5.html All This and Heaven Too 1978 Audio waddywachtelinfo.com/AndrewGold2.html Whirlwind 1980 Audio waddywachtelinfo.com/AndrewGold3.html Thank You For Being a Friend: The Best of Andrew Gold 1997 waddywachtelinfo.com/AndrewGold4.html With the Waddy Wachtel Band 2009 waddywachtelinfo.com/WWBNovember2009.html#112309
Outside Link:
Andrew Gold Web Site www.andrewgold.com/
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 10, 2020 9:25:25 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 10, 2020 9:30:06 GMT
Andrew Gold and Linda Ronstadt 1975
In his own words: "Really one of my favorite pictures of that period. Linda has long been a good friend, and I've always loved her. If I recall, this moment came a few seconds after I good naturedly suggested in her ear that we engage in some highly perverted sexual activity after the show, involving leather whips, massage oil and boy scout cookies, which as usual, she thought was cute and sweet and funny again. I was serious, though!" In Remembrance: Andrew Gold 1951 - 2011 141,283 views•Jun 4, 2011
"Thank You For Being A Friend" by Andrew Gold From the 1978 album All This And Heaven Too
In remembrance for sweet Andrew Gold and all his dear family and friends.
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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2021 9:01:26 GMT
Linda Ronstadt – Hasten Down The Wind Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – UDCD 783 Series: Original Master Recording – Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, 24kt Gold Country: US Released: 2009
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 30, 2022 8:43:24 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 12, 2023 11:33:33 GMT
Ethan Russell on "Hasten Down the Wind" cover shoot
From carmelmagazine.com/archive/13ho/rock-art:
“I love Linda. She is a fabulous person,” Russell says. “So low key. We were shooting on the beach outside some music producer’s house in Malibu Colony. Shooting away and nothing was happening. The light was fading and the horse just appeared. I shot two frames: in the first one she is saying, ‘Don’t shoot! You’ll scare the horse,’ and looked like you couldn’t sell her to a circus…but in this one [the cover shot] she’s a goddess.”
The only place that I've seen the first frame is in Russell's book "Dear Mr. Fantasy" page 236, below: "Linda telling me not to take the picture that became the cover. (The horse was not arranged.)"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Russell
shop.ethanrussell.com/collections/linda-ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt "Hasten Down The Wind," Malibu 1975 "You can give me weeds, whites, and wine..." sang Linda, endearing her to millions. But this was shot outside her Malibu beach home, and what she has just said, in fact, is "Don't shoot. You'll scare the horse," which by accident had happened by in that one fleeting moment. You prepare for a shoot and work for the best. This was one.
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Linda Ronstadt "Prisoner in Disguise" 1974 "You can give me weeds, whites, and wine...and I'll be willing" sang Linda, endearing herself to millions of men, including me.
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QUALITY: All photographs are museum quality, archival, and signed and numbered by Ethan Russell. Prices vary by print size and size of edition, but all are for serious enthusiasts or collectors. Select edition and size below.
Linda Ronstadt in Make-up for Prisoner in Disguiseronstadt.proboards.com/thread/6658/ethan-russell-hasten-cover-shoot
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 14, 2023 6:16:07 GMT
REVIEWS: ALBUM REWINDS
Linda Ronstadt’s ‘Hasten Down The Wind’: Right Songs, Right Singer bestclassicbands.com/linda-ronstadt-hasten-down-the-wind-8-13-200/ by Mark Leviton Share This:
When Linda Ronstadt entered the Sound Factory recording studio in March 1976 to record her seventh solo album, her music career was at a creative and commercial peak. Ronstadt’s previous two albums, Heart Like a Wheel and Prisoner in Disguise, had sold over a million copies each, and her live performances were now booked in stadiums and arenas instead of the small clubs where she’d started. She recorded for David Geffen’s red-hot label Asylum (home of Jackson Browne, Tom Waits, Eagles and Joni Mitchell). Her well-connected producer/manager Peter Asher (who’d been a pop star himself in the ’60s as half of the Peter and Gordon duo) could call on the best session players in L.A. to back her up. Over a dozen backup singers, three guitarists (Andrew Gold, Dan Dugmore and Waddy Wachtel), two drummers (Russ Kunkel and Mike Botts) and Ronstadt’s long-time collaborator Kenny Edwards on bass contributed. www.facebook.com/lindaronstadtofficial/
Linda Ronstadt circa 1976
You’d think Ronstadt had nothing left to prove, but she did. For her entire singing career, she’d struggled to keep the focus on her voice and interpretive talent rather than her good looks and sex appeal. For years, it seemed that every article written about her had to mention she liked to go braless, and speculate about whatever celebrity she was currently rumored to be dating. Pressured by her original label Capitol to play up her earthy sexiness, she appeared barefoot in skimpy clothes on the cover of her Silk Purse album, and the art direction of her next three albums all pursued an identical template—show this woman’s beautiful face as large as possible on the front cover.
Related: Our Album Rewind review of Trio, featuring Ronstadt, Dolly Parton & Emmylou Harris bestclassicbands.com/ronstadt-parton-harris-trio-7-14-20/
She was portrayed as the quintessential “emotional female,” swept away while she sang yearning love songs like “Love Has No Pride,” “When Will I Be Loved,” “Long Long Time” and “You’re No Good.” Too little attention was paid to her technical abilities and craft: her breath control made those swoops up and down the octaves possible, and her diction and pitch were perfect. Those hours spent listening to her father’s collection of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra LPs paid off no matter what musical genre she was performing in. “My musical background has always been completely random,” she told Sounds’ Barbara Charone in 1976. “That’s one of the things that drew me to Southern California as a central sphere, a synthesis of everything.”
Asher has suggested she had to become a chameleon to survive the inherent sexism of the music business, telling Charone, “She’s more perceptive and rational than people give her credit for. Occasionally she’ll adopt a mannerism of being scatterbrained that can create the impression that she’s vaguely dim, which is so far from the truth, because she’s brilliant.”
Like Joan Baez and Judy Collins before her, Ronstadt didn’t focus on writing songs herself, instead developing a remarkable radar for often obscure material by little-known or underappreciated composers that suited her. For the sessions that became Hasten Down the Wind she turned to Warren Zevon, Tracy Nelson, John and Johanna Hall, and especially Karla Bonoff, recording three of her tunes, including the opener “Lose Again” and closer “Someone to Lay Down Beside Me.”
“Lose Again” begins the LP with an immediate emotional peak. It’s riveting from the opening lines: “Save me/Free me/From my heart this time.” The arrangement is detailed, with subtle dynamic changes, and recording engineer Val Garay captures a remarkable separation of instruments that’s also warm and inviting. Ronstadt’s voice is situated perfectly in the mix. A promotional film for the song made at the time shows the perfect balance between the collaborators, and the sharp focus they maintained.
“The Tattler” is a Washington Phillips blues-gospel song from 1929 that was rediscovered and reworked by Ry Cooder on his 1974 Paradise and Lunch album. Ronstadt pretty much follows Cooder’s arrangement, and doesn’t so much improve on his version as realign it for her less spiky personality. Bonoff’s “If He’s Ever Near” follows, with an effectively low-key opening as Ronstadt whisper-sings the lyrics over Andrew Gold’s sustained organ note. He’s also playing an ARP synthesizer to mimic a string section on the track. Bonoff herself and singer-songwriter Wendy Waldman are the supporting multi-tracked chorus.
The rowdy “That’ll Be The Day” breaks the mood. Ronstadt’s version of the Buddy Holly hit was the album’s first single, and rose to #11 on the Billboard chart. Recording “oldies” was a consistent commercial tactic for Ronstadt, with Martha and the Vandellas’ “Heat Wave,” the Everly Brothers’ “When Will I Be Loved,” the Miracles’ “Tracks of My Tears” and Betty Everett’s “You’re No Good” all becoming big hits again in her hands before she turned to Holly’s 1959 barnburner.
And here is a live version of the same Buddy Holly classic, from Germany in 1976
“Lo Siento Mi Vida,” a rare Ronstadt co-write with Kenny Edwards and her dad Gilbert, is the first recorded evidence of her love of Mexican-American ranchera and mariachi music. (In 1987 she fought her label to issue Canciones de Mi Padre, which became the best-selling non-English-language album in American record history.)
The album’s title track concludes side one. Zevon’s original version was in the can but as yet unreleased by Asylum at the time of Ronstadt’s recording. Don Henley handles a harmony vocal part, and the string arrangement is by David Campbell (Beck’s dad). The lyrics are unusual, and Ronstadt infuses them with a tremendous sense of longing: “She’s so many women/He can’t find the one who was his friend/So he’s hanging on to half a heart/He can’t have the restless part.”
Side two of the LP begins with a short a cappella rendition of “Rivers of Babylon,” the reggae tune based on a biblical passage. It leads into John and Johanna Hall’s “Give One Heart.” The song had been the B-side of a single by John’s Asylum band Orleans. Waddy Wachtel provides the reggae guitar and part of a dual guitar solo with Dugmore’s steel guitar.
“Try Me Again,” mostly written by Ronstadt with an assist from Andrew Gold, begins with a classic R&B opening line (“I drove past your house last night”) and perhaps nods a bit melodically in the direction of James Brown’s 1959 slow-burning hit “Try Me.” This is yet another confident Ronstadt vocal: listen to what she does with her voice when she gets to “Friends I saw/They just brought me down.” There’s a natural drama and power in her phrasing that few singers can access.
Willie Nelson’s “Crazy,” one of Patsy Cline’s biggest hits, from 1961, is sung perfectly, and is one of the reasons Hasten Down the Wind got to #1 on the Billboard country album chart. The track was released as the B-side to “Someone to Lay Down Beside Me,” and AM country stations played both sides.
The album’s finest overall track is probably “Down So Low,” a searing love song written by Tracy Nelson in 1968 and recorded with her group Mother Earth on their Living With the Animals LP. “Down So Low” draws female singers like bees to honey—it’s been recorded by Etta James, Maria Muldaur, Cyndi Lauper and many others, but Ronstadt’s is the first and best non-Nelson version. Ronstadt doesn’t push the lyrics or unduly overemphasize. She knows how to inhabit the melody and make the lyrics real: “The pain you left behind/Has become part of me/And it’s burned out a hole/Where my love used to be/But it’s not losing you/That’s got me down so low/I just can’t find another man/To take your place.” Dugmore’s guitar, Gold’s piano, and the massed chorus (including Clydie King and Jim Gilstrap) bring it all to the church of heartbreak.
Bonoff’s “Someone to Lay Down Beside Me” has been bluntly described by Ronstadt as “about a prostitute.” The melody is full of dramatic moments, and with emphatic piano chords in this arrangement, it sounds more than a little like what Carole King produced on her Tapestry album. This is another example of how an arrangement can absolutely center Ronstadt’s voice inside a spacious cushion, as she passionately sings, “That may be what I need/Someone to lay down beside me/And even though it’s not real/Just someone to lay down beside me/You’re the story of my life.”
On purely musical terms, the album’s hard to argue against, although some critics at the time thought it too commercial, too slickly produced, and scattered with too many genre shifts. The public loved it upon release in August 1976. It became Ronstadt’s third platinum album in a row, and earned her the second of her eventual 13 Grammy awards. The LP cover, designed by John Kosh, featured a photo by Ethan Russell of Ronstadt on the beach near her Malibu home, wearing a very thin off-the-shoulder dress, quite obviously braless once more. A poster of the cover became a pin-up in many adolescent bedrooms. When it came to packaging and marketing the product known as “Linda Ronstadt,” it seems not much had changed.
Watch Ronstadt perform “Lose Again” live in Germany in 1976
Related: Our conversation with Ronstadt’s longtime LP cover designer, Kosh bestclassicbands.com/kosh-linda-ronstadt-album-covers-10-10-20/
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