リンダ・ロンシュタットコミュの100 Greatest Women

firehillsさま

＞Lindaがトップ20に入っていないのは残念ですが、彼女はカントリーだけではないマルチタレントですからね。仕方ありませんね。

おっしゃる通りだと思います。彼女の活躍のフィールドを考えると第 21位というのは結構高い順位だと思います。

> 56. Matraca Berg

おぉ〜、すごい！！


あ、リンダコミュなのにリアクションが違いますね。(笑)

6位以下が発表されています。
http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/100-greatest-women/

6. Reba McEntire
7. Patsy Cline
8. Trisha Yearwood
9. Kitty Wells
10. Wynonna (The Judds)
11. Alison Krauss
12. Dixie Chicks
13. Patty Loveless
14. Barbara Mandrell
15. Tanya Tucker
16. Shania Twain
17. Brenda Lee
18. Cindy Walker
19. Dottie West
20. Rosanne Cash

Trisha Yearwood, Alison Krauss, Dixie Chicksといった最近の若い人が結構評価が高いんですね。
といっても Trisha Yearwoodと Dixie Chicksは 15年以上、Alison Kraussに至っては 20年以上のキャリアがあるので「最近の若い人」とは言えないですね。こんなところで自分がおじさんになったのを感じます。

さて、そうなると残るはトップファイブです。

Dolly Partonと Emmylou Harrisは当確として残りの 3人は誰でしょう？カントリーに詳しい方の予想を聞かせていただければ幸いです。

しみじみ層の厚さというか､歴史を感じますね｡
Dolly Partonと Emmylou Harrisは当確･･すごい
Dixie Chicksって､去年かおととしのｶﾝﾄﾘｰ･ｺﾞｰﾙﾄﾞにきてたような。
Patsy Cline もWanda Jackson もすでに登場済ということになると
後は誰がいるだろう･･･?
ロレッタ･リンとか
カーター･ファミリーとか？

その後 3位まで発表になりました。
http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/100-greatest-women/

3. Maybelle and Sara Carter
4. Emmylou Harris
5. Tammy Wynette

予想通り Emmylouは入っていました。
るりさんの予想通り Maybelle and Sara Carter (Carter Family)も出てきました。

残りはわずか 2人。
Dolly Partonとあと 1人は誰でしょう？

これはカントリー界での認知なので、広義での女性歌手としては入っていない歌手も沢山いますね。

このチャート、エミルー→レバ→トリシア→シャナイア というのは好感が持てます。チックスはもう少し上でもいい気がしますが。
ドリーともう一人は誰でしょうね。古すぎると自分もよくわかりませぬ．．．

るりさま

＞ロレッタ･リンとか
＞カーター･ファミリーとか？

ピンポーン！
第 2位は Loretta Lynnでした。
http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/100-greatest-women/

これで 1位から 100位のすべての順位が事実上決まりました。

firehillsさま

＞Dolly PartonはLindaやEmmylouを通じて知っている程度のファンですが、ライブに行っとくべきですかね。8月頭にカリフォルニアに来るんですが。

当然です。今回最も偉大なカントリー女性歌手に選ばれた歌手です。
機会があれば Trio IIでの Lindaと Emmylouとの仲たがいおよびその後の和解について事情を聞いてきて下さい。

ついに全貌が明らかになりました。（実質的には昨日の段階で明らかでしたが。）
http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/100-greatest-women/

1. Dolly Parton
2. Loretta Lynn
3. Maybelle and Sara Carter
4. Emmylou Harris
5. Tammy Wynette
6. Reba McEntire
7. Patsy Cline
8. Trisha Yearwood
9. Kitty Wells
10. Wynonna (The Judds)
11. Alison Krauss
12. Dixie Chicks
13. Patty Loveless
14. Barbara Mandrell
15. Tanya Tucker
16. Shania Twain
17. Brenda Lee
18. Cindy Walker
19. Dottie West
20. Rosanne Cash
21. Linda Ronstadt
22. Wanda Jackson
23. Crystal Gayle
24. Connie Smith
25. Faith Hill
26. Martina McBride
27. Kathy Mattea
28. Anne Murray
29. Mary Chapin Carpenter
30. Lorrie Morgan
31. Rose Maddox
32. Lynn Anderson
33. Lee Ann Womack
34. Jean Shepard
35. Pam Tillis
36. Donna Fargo
37. K.T. Oslin
38. LeAnn Rimes
39. June Carter Cash
40. Minnie Pearl
41. Lucinda Williams
42. Patsy Montana
43. Aunt Molly Jackson
44. Skeeter Davis
45. Cousin Emmy
46. Janie Fricke
47. Felice Bryant
48. Lulu Belle
49. Olivia Newton-John
50. Jeannie C. Riley
51. Terri Clark
52. Juice Newton
53. Jo Dee Messina
54. Sara Evans
55. Jeannie Seely
56. Matraca Berg
57. Dale Evans
58. Jan Howard
59. Carrie Underwood
60. k.d. lang
61. Carlene Carter
62. Lacy J. Dalton
63. Rhonda Vincent
64. Billie Jo Spears
65. Suzy Bogguss
66. Paulette Carlson (Highway 101)
67. Bobbie Gentry
68. Holly Dunn
69. Gail Davies
70. Sammi Smith
71. Norma Jean
72. Nanci Griffith
73. Melba Montgomery
74. Shelby Lynne
75. Sharon and Cheryl White (The Whites)
76. SHeDaisy
77. Helen Cornelius
78. Goldie Hill
79. Margo Smith
80. Jessi Colter
81. Deana Carter
82. Marie Osmond
83. Bonnie Guitar
84. Charly McClain
85. Gretchen Wilson
86. The Forester Sisters
87. Wilma Lee Cooper
88. Marijohn Wilkin
89. Jeanne Pruett
90. Miranda Lambert
91. Roba Stanley
92. Gretchen Peters
93. Sweethearts of the Rodeo
94. Martha Carson
95. Sylvia
96. Allison Moorer
97. Barbara Fairchild
98. Jeannie Kendall (The Kendalls)
99. Sugar (Dave & Sugar)
100. Jennifer Nettles (Sugarland)

写真左：Dolly Parton
写真中：Emmylou Harris
写真右：Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadtに関するコメントを転載しておきます。
http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/100-greatest-women-21-linda-ronstadt/

100 Greatest Women, #21
Linda Ronstadt

She has a restless musical spirit, recording so many different styles successfully that no genre can fully claim her as their own. But it is her country recordings that have had the most lasting impact, and her seminal seventies work permanently changed the female approach to country music.

She got her start in the country-rock scene of Los Angeles in the sixties, and she quickly became adept at fusing classic country with elements of the rock music of the day. With a handful of fellow musicians, she fronted The Stone Poneys. The band became a big hit on West Coast country and folk circuits, and the exposure earned them a recording contract. Their first album in 1967 didn’t go anywhere, but their second album featured “Different Drum”, a song clearly intended for a man to sing but in Ronstadt’s hands became an anthem for female liberation (”I’m not ready for any person, place or thing to try and pull the reins in on me.”)

When “Different Drum” became a pop hit in 1968, it was Ronstadt’s voice that garnered most of the attention. After the group released three albums, they disbanded, and Ronstadt went solo. She had a clear musical vision from the start. Her early albums reveled in traditional country music, featuring classics like “I Fall to Pieces”, “Lovesick Blues” and “Mental Revenge.” She added fuzzy guitar to her first recording of “Silver Threads and Golden Needles.” But she drew on other genres as well, covering R&B and gospel songs alongside the country songs she tackled.

Her second album Silk Purse showed she could also do pure pop, and she scored her first solo hit with the orchestral “Long Long Time.” She also began to draw on the contemporary rock stars of the day, covering Jackson Browne’s “Rock Me on the Water” and Neil Young’s “Birds” on her third solo set, Linda Ronstadt. In 1974, she had top twenty country hits with her fiddle-laden revisit to “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” and “When the Morning Comes”, a duet with Hoyt Axton.

But it was in the mid-seventies where her presence was most felt in country music. Her landmark 1975 album Heart Like a Wheel effortlessly fused country and rock, with Ronstadt as convincing covering James Taylor (”You Can Close Your Eyes”) as she was tackling Hank Williams. Her version of the latter’s “I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You)” featured harmony support from then-unknown Emmylou Harris, who would become her musical partner many more times in the future. That performance won her the Best Country Female Grammy, and went to #2 on the country charts. Her spin on the Everly Brothers classic “When Will I Be Loved” was from the same album, and it went #1 on the country chart.

Ronstadt continued to push the genre boundaries with her 1975 set Prisoner in Disguise. She twanged up the Neil Young song “Love is a Rose”, another big hit, and she had the good taste to cover Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” from the previous year. At the time, Ronstadt was telling anyone who’d listen that Parton was her favorite girl singer. She paired up again with Harris on “The Sweetest Gift”, an old-time country song that demonstrated both her knowledge and understanding of mountain music.

（前項の続きです。）

Ronstadt would continue to record country, but it became less dominant on her later albums. Still, she scored hits with covers of Patsy Cline (”Crazy”) and Roy Orbison (”Blue Bayou”), while bringing attention to rising writers like Warren Zevon (”Poor, Poor Pitiful Me.”) In 1978, Parton harmonized on her final solo country hit, “I Never Will Marry”, which Ronstadt had sung on the Johnny Cash Show a few years earlier.

Ronstadt spent the early eighties exploring new rock sounds, before switching over to standards and Mexican music. But she returned to country in a big way in 1987, when the Trio album with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris was released. The platinum disc won the group several awards, including Album of the Year at the ACM’s and the first CMA award for Vocal Event. Of the four top five hits the set produced, Ronstadt sang lead on one, the pleading “Telling Me Lies.”

Ronstadt has since released a few more country records, including another Trio album, a Western set with Harris and the solo set Feels Like Home. But more importantly, Ronstadt became the archetype for almost all of the major female artists in country music back in the nineties. She was cited as an inspiration by everyone from Pam Tillis to Martina McBride. When Trisha Yearwood met with her producer to plan her debut album, she walked in with a copy of Prisoner in Disguise and said, “This is the kind of music I want to make.” When Ronstadt cut Matraca Berg’s “Walk On”, the writer demanded silence from all as she played the track for the first time, and called it one of the biggest honors of her career.

Her powerhouse vocals have been endlessly imitated, though rarely matched. Along with Emmylou Harris, she demonstrated how songs from all different genres could be pulled together to form a cohesive album. She proved that any great song could also be a great country song, provided the arrangement and the sincerity are there. Quite simply, Ronstadt revolutionized what a female artist could be in country music.

Linda Ronstadt

Essential Singles

“Silver Threads and Golden Needles”, 1974
“I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You)”, 1974
“When Will I Be Loved”, 1975
“The Sweetest Gift”, 1976
“Blue Bayou”, 1977
“I Never Will Marry”, 1978
“Telling Me Lies”, 1987

Essential Albums

Don’t Cry Now, 1973
Heart Like a Wheel, 1974
Prisoner in Disguise, 1975
Hasten Down the Wind, 1976
Trio, 1987

Industry Awards

ACM Most Promising Female Vocalist, 1975
ACM Album of the Year (Trio), 1988
CMA Vocal Event (Trio), 1988
Grammy: Best Female Country Vocal Performance (”I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You)”), 1976
Grammy: Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (Trio), 1988
Grammy: Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (”After the Gold Rush”), 2000

写真：Linda Ronstadt（すこし珍しい写真を集めてみました。）

「偉大」の定義は人それぞれでしょうし音楽は嗜好の物ですから、自分が思う順位というのは人それぞれ違うでしょうね。

ドリーが１位というのはアメリカの大衆の視点からは理解できますが、自分の中では残念ながらあまり高評価ではありません。(笑)
あくまでエンターティナーとして閉鎖的なカントリー界からお茶の間にまで飛び出した数少ないパイオニアの１人という点では評価できますが．．．
特に80年代のポップス調のアルバム群とか自分にはイタイ．．．

リンダが現在のカントリー界に及ぼしている影響、例えば今の女性ソロシンガーの大多数はリンダが70年代にやった方法論と歌唱法を世襲していること、アサイラム系のカントリーロックが今やカントリーそのものとなってしまったこと等、随分無視されているのが残念です。

"あたり"ですか？
うれしいですね
リンダに関するコメント､いっしょうけんめい読みました｡
Patsy Cline など､わたしはリンダを通してカントリーに触れ
カントリーを好きになりました｡
ドリー･パートンもアルバム｢トリオ」をきっかけに聴くようになったり､
そういう意味では､わたしの中でリンダが１位です

Moさま

貴重なコメント有難うございます。

＞リンダが現在のカントリー界に及ぼしている影響、例えば今の女性ソロシンガーの大多数はリンダが70年代にやった方法論と歌唱法を世襲していること、アサイラム系のカントリーロックが今やカントリーそのものとなってしまったこと等、随分無視されているのが残念です。

ご指摘の通りだと思います。
Linda Ronstadtの「カントリー歌手」としての活動はシングルヒットで言えば Silver Threads and Golden Needles (1974)から I Never Will Marry (1978)ぐらいまでですから（それ以後も Trioプロジェクトなどの活動はありますが）、活動期間の短さが Dolly Parton等のカントリー歌手に比べると不利かもしれません。

写真左：Linda Ronstadt
写真中：Bonnie Raitt & Linda Ronstadt
写真右：Linda Ronstadt