![]() ![]() With a trove of outstanding songs to record, Browne carolled members of Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles, along with Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Regularly performing Zevon compositions at his concerts, these songs were picked up by songstress supreme Linda Ronstadt and subsequently became a feature in the run of excellent albums she was making at the time.Įventually, having secured Zevon a recording contract with Asylum, the label to whom he, Ronstadt and the Eagles were signed, Browne persuaded his estranged compadre to end the Spanish sojourn and return to Los Angeles – the clincher being Jackson carrying out producer duties on the record Zevon had been booked to make. music scene in the early-70s to begin a life that would entail drinking copious amounts of vodka while playing in the bars of Sitges (a coastal town in northern Spain), it was Browne who kept the light burning for Warren on the Hollywood home front. It's to our great fortune that she most certainly did.Such was the belief Browne had in his extraordinarily talented but wayward friend, when Zevon quit the L.A. “It was best when I forgot about everything and just thought about the music, but it took me a long time to get there”. “I just didn’t feel like I could quite sing well enough,” she told the New Yorker of her early years on stage. The true story is one of an artist who took many years to come to terms with her own talent. By 1976, Linda was already onto a Greatest Hits collection that ended up shipping seven million, all in the US alone.īut such statistics tell a fraction of the tale. The numbers were no less impressive at 33rpm, with 14 albums going at least single platinum, three of them triple. The history books display her 35 entries on Billboard's Hot 100, two dozen on the country charts and, in a significant nod to her versatility, different No. ![]() In the process, she shone an early light on countless young singers and writers, from the Eagles to Lowell George, while being further rewarded with 11 Grammys and membership in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Never satisfied to stay in one comfort zone, at the height of her fame she proceeded again, with confidence and vision, into the Great American Songbook, Latin serenades, children's and music for film and performing on Broadway. In the 1970s, she made rock into country and vice versa, gaining respect as a serious album artist while maintaining a constant presence on commercial radio in the States and far beyond. She started solo in 1969, making 24 studio records in her own name over the next 35 years, as well as many others in memorable duos and trios. She was recording by her late teens, before coming to national prominence with the Stone Poneys. The girl who grew up in the Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Arizona, daughter of a machinery merchant of ranching stock, was in a folk trio at 14. It’s a rare artistic timeline that began in folk, then sat at the forefront of country-rock to the tune of tens of millions of records. Rarely a songwriter herself, Linda Marie Ronstadt has few rivals for the sheer breadth and depth of her interpretative skills. She may no longer record, but in a 40-year oeuvre liberally decorated in platinum and almost every award imaginable, she was already assured of her position as one of the definitive voices of American popular music. When Linda Ronstadt joined the distinguished party recognised at the hallowed Kennedy Centre Honours in 2019, it was a timely celebration of a career silenced too early by Parkinson's disease. ![]()
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