Linda Ronstadt Duets will be available on April 8.
Rhino Records brings together 14 of
the singer's memorable musical partnerships, along with a previously
unreleased collaboration with Laurie Lewis, for a new collection that
was created with help from Ronstadt and her longtime manager, John
Boylan.
Last year, Ronstadt released her best-selling memoir Simple Dreams and also revealed that she had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, which left her unable to sing.
Several songs on this collection are also Grammy winners.
Ronstadt won her first in 1976 for a cover of Hank Williams’ “I Can’t
Help It (If I’m Still In Love With You)” that featured Emmylou Harris
and appeared on what many consider her masterwork, Heart Like a Wheel
(1974). Another Grammy-winner featured on Duets is “Somewhere Out
There,” which Ronstadt recorded with James Ingram in 1986 for the
soundtrack to An American Tail.
It also includes two of her
most successful collaborations, both of which feature Aaron Neville.
The Grammy-winning songs “Don’t Know Much” and “All My Life” originally
appeared on Ronstadt’s triple-platinum album Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind (1989).
In 1976, she and Don Henley
sang the Warren Zevon-penned track “Hasten Down The Wind,” which was the
title track to Ronstadt’s Grammy-winning, #1 album. It was her third
consecutive million-selling album, an accomplishment no other female
artist had achieved at that point.
Duets also spotlights a number of Ronstadt’s more recent collaborations, like “Sisters” with Bette Midler, which appeared on Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook (2003).
That same year, Ronstadt partnered with Carl Jackson on “The New Partner Waltz,” for the Grammy-winning tribute album Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’: Song of the Louvin Brothers. DUETS also includes three tracks from Adieu False Heart
– a Grammy-nominated album Ronstadt recorded in 2006 with Cajun-music
singer Ann Savoy – including a cover of the 1966 hit, “Walk Away
Renée.”
Track Listing:
1.“Adieu False Heart” with Ann Savoy
2.“I Can’t Get Over You” with Ann Savoy
3.“Walk Away Renee” with Ann Savoy
4.“The New Partner Waltz” with Carl Jackson
5.“I Never Will Marry” with Dolly Parton
6.“Pretty Bird” with Laurie Lewis*
7.“I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You)” with Emmylou Harris
8.“Hasten Down The Wind” with Don Henley
9.“Prisoner In Disguise” with J.D. Souther
10.“I Think It’s Gonna Work Out Fine” with James Taylor
11."Don’t Know Much” with Aaron Neville
12.“All My Life” with Aaron Neville
13.“Somewhere Out There” with James Ingram
14.“Sisters” with Bette Midler
15.“Moonlight In Vermont” with Frank Sinatra
*previously unreleased
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