Here, strings and Andrew Gold's impersonal piano accompaniment take the song all the way out of the danger zone, and Ronstadt's carefully articulated, stodgy vocal belies her misunderstanding.
#LINDA RONSTADT HASTEN DOWN THE WIND. PLUS#
In the original version, stinging, venomous guitar lines plus ethereal guitar solos accentuated Zevon's weary vocal. While it is certainly not in a league with her masterpiece, Heart Like a Wheel, (and I'm beginning to believe its perfection occurs but once in an artist's career), Hasten Down the Wind is nonetheless representative of Ronstadt redivivus, of Ronstadt, the sensitive, introspective stirring we have admired all these years.Īside from the inclusion of two innocuous songs - "Lo Siento Mi Vida" and Karla Bonoff's "If He's Ever Near" - the album's problems are fairly well exemplified by the totally wrongheaded interpretation of the Warren Zevon-penned title song, which delineates the chilling tale of a lover's indecisiveness. This is Linda Ronstadt's tenth album (including the three made with her first group, the Stone Poneys).
Think instead of a gifted singer - perhaps our most gifted - who has given us (arguably, I admit) some 40 memorable songs but failed, and miserably so, to connect with much passion on her last album, Prisoner in Disguise. When I say welcome back, don't think of John Sebastian's awful song, or the equally awful television show it introduces.
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