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I Believe In Youの解説です。

LINDA RONSTADT
I Believe In You [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, November 18, 1973. Very good radio broadcast.

One of the joys and highlights of Ruben Blades’s y Seis del Solar/Escenas 1985 album is his duet with Linda Ronstadt on the track Silencios. Then there is that swinging Perfidia in The Mambo Kings movie. But let’s go back to a time before Ronstadt had even considered venturing so far south of the border.

After three solo albums on Capitol, Ronstadt signed with Asylum Records and released Don’t Cry Now in September 1973. By then, Ronstadt was already considered a fine interpreter of songs and the new album had songs by JD Souther, Don Henley/Glenn Frey, Randy Newman and even Neil Young (I Believe In You). Just two months after the album’s release, Ronstadt is hard at work plugging Don’t Cry Now at the Record Plant, not knowing that the album would stay more than a year on the chart and that the album’s tracks such as Desperado, Love Has No Pride and even a chestnut such as Silver Threads And Golden Needles would continue to be fan favourites today.

Ronstadt would, for a period, be the “highest paid woman in rock,” but that would still be a way off. For the time being, traversing country, folk and pop/rock, she needed to prove her worth to her new label and she is raring to go.

Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, this recording has never been officially released.

Note: Due to the size of some of the files, please be patient when downloading the tracks. Kindly email us at mybigo@bigozine.com if you encounter problems downloading the files.

Track 01. Nightingale (5.7MB)
Track 02. I Fall To Pieces (4.8MB)
Track 03. Silver Threads And Golden Needles (4.5MB)
Track 04. Love Has No Pride (6.1MB)
Track 05. Rock Me On The Water (5.3MB)
Track 06. I Can’t Help It If I’m Still In Love With You (4.4MB)
Track 07. It Doesn’t Matter Any More (5.7MB)
Track 08. The Dark End Of The Street (5.6MB)
Track 09. I Believe In You (4.4MB)
Track 10. Crazy Arms (5.4MB)
Track 11. Long, Long Time (8.0MB)
Track 12. You’re No Good (6.4MB)

With The Sam Bush Bandの解説です。（前半）

LINDA RONSTADT with THE SAM BUSH BAND
Berger Center 2002 [no label, 1CD]
Live at Berger Center for Performing Arts, Tucson, Arizona, June 13, 2002. An FM stereo broadcast.

“In years past, I’ve always made an effort to make sure my arrangements sounded exactly like the record but I don’t care about that anymore. Whatever song I still like to sing, I’m really happy to put it back together again with different instrumentation and see what we find in it.”

If you listen to this performance, there’s a huge “sigh” wafting about. Like regret. Linda Ronstadt’s voice is much richer and fuller. It’s still very strong. At the same time, she probably won’t be using it to sing her ’80s hits too often. The Linda Ronstadt now is vastly different from the hot-pants pop queen of the late ’70s. Not just in appearance but in attitude. It’s worth noting her insouciance from that famous 2004 show at the Aladdin Theatre in Las Vegas.

Towards the end of her performance, as she had done across the country, Ronstadt spoke to the audience, praising Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore’s documentary film about the Iraq War, and dedicated the song “Desperado” to Moore.

Accounts say the crowd’s initial reaction was mixed, with “half the crowd heartily applauding her praise for Moore, (and) the other half booing”. However, the situation escalated into what Tyri Squyres, director of public relations at the Aladdin, described as a “mob scene… It’s amazing how ugly it got,” with people walking out, tearing down posters, throwing drinks and demanding a refund.

Following the concert, news accounts reported that Ronstadt was “evicted” from the hotel premises. Ronstadt claimed she wasn’t physically taken off stage but was ordered by Aladdin staff to wait to speak with Aladdin President Bill Timmins. She claims to have refused to wait and to have left, and later remarked that while Aladdin staff attempted to detain her, she thought, “Or they were going to make me start writing on a chalkboard or read me my Miranda rights?” Later she said, “Apparently… (the Aladdin)… called up one of the people that was traveling with us and went, ‘She’s talking about Michael Moore, and this is a place for entertainment, not politics’.” - Wikipedia

She has since regretted the manner in which it all came out. Last year she said “If I had to do it over I would be much more gracious to everyone… you can be as outspoken as you want if you are very, very respectful. Show some grace.”

Without exception, none of the songs at this Tucson concert are political. But in Ronstadt’s hands there’s always the pushing against the narrative to draw upon imagination to see something more. Hobo’s Meditation is as fresh and relevant as when Jimmy Rodgers first sang it. Ronstadt is 62. She grew up in the so-called Age of Aquarius, saw the Vietnam War, etc. You have to wonder how all that has touched her and what other meaning she brings to her interpretations. When she sings Tom Petty’s The Waiting, it’s like her generation’s still waiting for that “change” to come.

It’s just hard to imagine Britney Spears at 62 singing like this. Madonna at 50 is a hopeless parody of herself.

For the record, Ronstadt’s past couple of albums have all been more or less standards. It’s not what she’s singing, it seems to be how she’s singing them. Show some grace.
- The Little Chicken

With The Sam Bush Bandの解説の後半です。

Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, this recording has never been officially released.

Note: Due to the size of some of the files, please be patient when downloading the tracks. Kindly email us at mybigo@bigozine.com if you encounter problems downloading the files.

Track 01. Feels Like Home [Randy Newman] (7.5MB)
Track 02. High Sierra (6.5MB)
Track 03. Hobo’s Meditation [Jimmy Rodgers] (5.1MB)
Track 04. Lover’s Return [The Carter Family] (6.3MB)
Track 05. If I Should Fall Behind [Bruce Springsteen] (6.2MB)
Track 06. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues [Bob Dylan] (9.4MB)
Track 07. Telling Me Lies [LInda Thompson] (7.7MB)
Track 08. The Waiting [Tom Petty] (6.2MB)

Lineup:
Linda Ronstadt - vocals
Sam Bush - mandolin
Jon Randall Stewart - gtr
Byron House - bs
Chris White - drms

BigOはシンガポールをベースとするロック雑誌（だそう）です。

膨大なブートレグのリストを見るだけで圧倒されてしまいます。
でも、シンガポールのような国でこんなことをして大丈夫なのでしょうか（笑）。

w( ▼o▼ )w オオォォ!!　これはまた貴重な情報が！！

さっそくＤＬして、iTuensで保管しました。

特に"I Believe In You"のほうで"Rock Me On The Water"を歌っているのが嬉しいです

しかし、ジャケット写真までアップしてくれて・・親切なサイトです（笑）

linda2006nicciさん、貴重な情報ありがとうございます。

早速DLし、ジャケも作ってCDを製作してみました。
「I Believe In You」は、音はいまいちですが、選曲が良いです。
河乃めだかさんと同じように「Rock Me On The Water」は嬉しかったですし、「Nightingale」も良かったです。