Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt has run through three different producers with her last three albums, and
it's easy to see why she wears them out so fast. Of the three, not one of them has had much
luck with the considerable job of imposing any direction or discipline on Linda's seemingly
boundless raw energy. She has yet to find someone who can shape up a whole album to
match the best of her individual performances on isolated cuts. Hand Sown ... H... More >

In which she makes a silk purse out of Silk Purse, not such a great idea--smoother, better crafted, more beautiful, and decidedly less interesting. Hardcore country songs are down to three, and here's the giveaway: four entries from the Sensitivity Squad (Jackson Browne, Livingston Taylor, and the Erics Kaz and Andersen). (Grade: B-)