Silk Purse

Silk Purse

Infobox Album |
Name = Silk Purse
Type = Album
Artist = Linda Ronstadt


Released = March 1970
Genre = Rock/Country
Length = 28:26
Label = Capitol
Producer = Elliot F. Mazer
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:amdfyl5jxpzb link]
*Robert Christgau (B) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Linda+Ronstadt link]
*"Rolling Stone" (mixed) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/lindaronstadt/albums/album/213208/review/5945403/silk_purse link]
Last album = "Hand Sown ... Home Grown"
(1969)
This album = "Silk Purse"
(1970)
Next album = "Linda Ronstadt"
(1972)

Silk Purse (1970) is the second solo album by Linda Ronstadt, released in March 1970, a year after the release of her first solo set, "Hand Sown ... Home Grown". [http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/albums1.htm 1] It was recorded at Woodland Recording Studios in Nashville, the only Ronstadt album recorded in the country music capital, and it was produced by Elliot Mazer, who had previously worked with Richie Havens, Gordon Lightfoot, James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, Chubby Checker and Frank Sinatra, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:36vsa9lgy23h~T4 2] and who had been recommended to Linda by Janis Joplin.

The album featured songs in a more traditional country setting. Ronstadt later remarked that Nashiville Country is very different than California Country. This album was also different in style and sound from Ronstadt's previous folk rock work with the Stone Poneys. "Silk Purse" includes interpretations of Hank Williams' rendition of "Lovesick Blues" and Mel Tillis' "Mental Revenge" and a version of the bluegrass traditional song "Life Is Like a Mountain Railway." Ronstadt also included the Gerry Goffin and Carole King "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" that back in the 1960s had been recorded by The Shirelles, and a harmony duet with Gary White on the Paul Siebel ballad "Louise," later covered by Bonnie Raitt. Included as well was a recording of a song White himself wrote, and Linda had to persued her record company to get the ballad "Long, Long Time" on the album, which in due course, proved to be Ronstadt's first chart single. Surprisingly, after its recording, Capitol Records executives attempted to dissuade Ronstadt's from picking songs, like "Long Long Time", which they considered too country, even though Ronstadt had been attracted to ballads such as this and "Heart Like a Wheel", which she later recorded.

Three months after the album's release, "Rolling Stone"'s Alec Dubro reviewed "Silk Purse" in the magazine's June 25 issue. "Some of the material is raw imitation and some is more original, but none is very far from the soul of the singer," Dubro wrote. "It is Linda Ronstadt's voice that makes this record; she endows the songs with a feeling that she has shown since the first Stone Poneys' album, and she has developed her Country style considerably since her last album." [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/lindaronstadt/albums/album/213208/review/5945403/silk_purse 3] Lester Bangs of "Penthouse" also reviewed the album: "Linda Ronstadt's vocal style is like her physical presence: brimming with passion and vulnerability, tremulous, yet possessed of a core of absolute strength." [http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/revsilk2.htm 4] .

Though released in March, "Silk Purse" did not debut on the "Billboard" Top LPs chart until October 1970, spending 10 weeks on the chart and peaking at No. 103. [http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/toppopa.htm 5] This came on the heels of the late-summer showing of the single "Long, Long Time," which peaked at No. 21 on the Hot 100 singles chart. [http://lindaronstadt.de/charts.htm 6] As a single, "Long, Long Time" proved to be a breakthrough of sorts for Ronstadt. The recording earned her a Grammy Award nomination in 1971 for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female, which she lost to Dionne Warwick for "I'll Never Fall In Love Again." [http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/grammy.html 7]

Track listing

# "Lovesick Blues" - Cliff Friend/Irving Mills – 2:00
# "Are My Thoughts With You?" - Mickey Newbury – 2:47
# "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" - Gerry Goffin/Carole King – 2:27
# "Nobody's" - Gary White – 2:56
# "Louise" - Paul Siebel – 3:22
# "Long, Long Time" - Gary White – 4:18
# "Mental Revenge" - Mel Tillis – 2:40
# "I'm Leaving It All Up to You" - Don "Sugarcane" Harris/Dewey Terry – 2:21
# "He Darked the Sun" - Gene Clark/Bernie Leadon – 2:40
# "Life Is Like a Mountain Railway" - Traditional – 3:23


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