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Reissue of Ronstadt's 1970 and second solo album, which greatly improved on her debut. Capitol.

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Average customer rating: LOVE IT!! PreClassic LINDA Remarkable Early Linda Ronstadt Album An early country album from Linda Linda's best early album

Silk Purse Linda Ronstadt Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Hand Sown..Home Grown Linda Ronstadt Don't Cry Now Heart Like a Wheel Prisoner in Disguise ASIN: B000006MV6 Release Date: 1995-04-04

Tracks:

1. Lovesick Blues
2. Are My Thoughts With You?
3. Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
4. Nobody's
5. Louise - Linda Ronstadt, Gary White
6. Long, Long Time
7. Mental Revenge
8. I'm Leavin' It All Up to You
9. He Darked the Sun
10. Life Is Like a Mountain Railway - Beechwood Rangers, Linda Ronstadt

Album Description

Reissue of Ronstadt's 1970 and second solo album, which greatly improved on her debut. Capitol.

Album Details

The Second Ronstadt Solo Album Yielded the Top 40 Solo Hit "Long Long Time" which Became a Pivotal Point in the Singer's Solo Career. It Very Plainly Showed the World the Power and Depth of her Extraordinary Voice.

Customer Reviews:

LOVE IT!!.......2005-08-22

I LOVE THIS CD. I CAN LISTEN TO THIS CD OVER AND OVER!!!!!

PreClassic LINDA.......2004-10-21

It's great that they've reissued her early solo period - pre-1974 Superstar status - albums, once again on Cd, if, at least on "imports". I have all the mid-90's Stone Poneys/Early Solo Lps to Cd reissues, which were bought up quite quickly and are worth a rock queen's ransom these days. Now that I think about it, as I did at that time also, WHY did they not include those several scattered off album recordings as "BONUS TRACKS" on these early "solo reissues" which never appeared on her albums?!!! Tracks such as: "CARNIVAL BEAR" & "SHE'S A VERY LOVELY WOMAN" - to name but a couple of her occasional "outings" for movie soundtracks and off to the side projects she was involved in. I adore this woman and her entire recorded output - as millions of others still do, but, some of the non-album "45"s I collected on vinyl(minus the "live bootlegs Lps")have never been reissued on Cd. WHY??? CAPITOL RECORDS: You guys need to 'get it together' and reissue a THOROUGHLY COMPREHENSIVE "LINDA RONSTADT ANTHOLOGY"[which will include all non-Lp recordings & rarities] in a much more detailed fashion than that 1976 "RETROSPECTIVE" double Lp(which by the way, still yearns to see itself on CD!)- she gave you a # 1 album, HEART LIKE A WHEEL, after all, as well as the most celebrated(by modern Country artists)blueprint album in Country-Pop-Rock history!

Remarkable Early Linda Ronstadt Album.......2004-01-27

I draw the dividing line between Linda Ronstadt's early work at around 1971. While the LINDA RONSTADT album (1972) features a solid blueprint on the sound and style she would build her 1970s classics on, SILK PURSE is much closer to the later Stone Poneys and her first solo album. It also happens to be one of my favorite Linda Ronstadt albums.
SILK PURSE displays a heavy country sound in the arrangements and vocals, but the character is definitely unique, reflecting neither the Nashville Sound of late-1960s country nor the rock influence in much of the country-rock movement. Two of the album's best defining features are Linda Ronstadt's confident, powerful, and beautiful vocals, and the incredible arrangments that surround each of the songs. "Lovesick Blues" leaps out of the speaker with a stunning vocals start. The song has been recast as an uptempo rocker, though the fiddles are especially prominent. Her vocals also start "Are My Thoughts With You," which continually builds both musically and emotionally during the song. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" is one of the best songs on the album, and one of my favorites. The arrangement is superb, opening with a ringing guitar sound, and featuring a brilliant vocal performance. The track melds both girl group, country, and great pop, and the result is a remarkable success that is above describtion. I've never understood why this song hasn't been featured on a Linda Ronstadt CD compilation (last was RETROSPECTIVE (I really miss that collection) in 1977, unless you count the small Capitol compilations from the 1980s (which aren't listed in her discography). Linda Ronstadt's vocal performance is the best feature of many of these songs, especially "Nobody's" written by Gary White. Gary White duets on "Louise," which features only an acoustic guitar, but delivers a powerful performance. One of Linda Ronstadt's greatest recordings is "Long Long Time," which resulted in her first solo hit ("Different Drum" was credited to the Stone Poneys) and her first Grammy nomination. The song is perfect, the arrangement of pedal steel, fiddle, harpsicord, and bass create a sound the is unbelievably emotional. Linda Ronstadt's vocal is powerful beyond the use of words, and the devastating lyrics bring new meaning to the term "sad song". The song has been recorded a few times since, but no version comes close to this gorgeous classic. "Mental Revenge" is considerably lighter, and the song is very entertaining, with her vocal delivery, arrangement, and lyrics that aim ill-wishes at the unfaithful partner from a former relationship. "I'm Leaving It All Up To You" was a pop hit in the early 1960s, but Linda Ronstadt ups the emotional quotient significantly, turning in a spectacular country recording. "He Dark The Sun" ranks with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and "Long Long Time" as my favorite recordings from this album. It was originally "She Darked The Sun" in bluegrass form on the first Dillard & Clark album (written by Gene Clark and Bernie Leadon). This recording rests largely on the soulful power of Linda Ronstadt's voice, Bernie Leadon contributes the harmony vocal, and the arrangement frames the vocal performance. Its worth a second listen everytime I play the disc. "Life Is Like A Mountain Railway" is reminiscent of an Appalachian spiritual, sung in harmony with the Beechwood Rangers. Its a unique way to conclude this immensely satisfying album. SILK PURSE is filled with spectacular performances, great arrangments, and unique songs. The critiques on the quality of all the songs really isn't that big a problem; I like those songs on the early albums which made up in emotional power whatever was missing on paper. SILK PURSE is an amazing album, probably the one I play most often, which is a very different experience from HEART LIKE A WHEEL, LIVING IN THE U.S.A. or, SIMPLE DREAMS. Highly recommended.

An early country album from Linda.......2003-08-06

Linda's recording career has embraced many different styles of music, including her country rock and pop rock music produced by Peter Asher in the seventies and her Great American Songbook albums produced by Nelson Riddle the mid eighties as well as her two traditional folk country Trio albums with Dolly and Emmylou. People who were taken by surprise at the style of the first Trio album would have been less surprised if they had looked at the early recordings of each of the three ladies. This 1969 album was recorded in Nashville in a folk-country-rock style typical of Linda's very early albums.
The best of the original songs, Long long time, provided Linda with an American hit.

There are several covers, including Lovesick blues (Hank Williams), Will you love me tomorrow (Shirelles), I'm leaving it all up to you (Dale and Grace - also covered in the seventies by Donny and Marie Osmond) and the traditional Life is like a mountain railway (previously recorded by Patsy Cline among others).

If you enjoy the Trio albums, you will probably enjoy this album and Linda's other early albums including Hand sown home grown. If you didn't enjoy the Trio albums, you may be better looking elsewhere for your musical entertainment. If you haven't heard those albums, I recommend that you try one or both of them first.

Linda's best early album.......2003-03-17

...and quite possibly in the Top 5 of her best recordings ever. A sure-footed, wonderfully hillbilly outing of songs that lets Ronstadt try out different moods without suffocating her inherent sweetness(nothing out of left field to distract her). It's full of lovesick, heartfelt nuances and twangy guitars. An absolute must.

Average customer rating: From her heart! Turn the Page What a musical gift!!! Gloria truly has a wonderful voice GOOD NEWS:

Turn the Page Gloria Loring Manufacturer: Silk Purse ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Television Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Full Moon/No Hesitation By Request Gloria Loring - Self-Titled Debut ASIN: B00000JTB5 Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

1. Turn the Page
2. About Love
3. Heaven Knows
4. Fixing a Hole
5. Barely Breathing
6. Not Gonna Go There
7. Twenty Years Girltime
8. Talk to Me
9. I in Me
10. Song of My Father - Charlie Bisharat, Gloria Loring, , Marsden Smith, Tom Tally
11. Real Thing
12. I Hear You Calling
13. Invited to the Dance
14. I Always Will (Brennan's Song) - Charlie Bisharat, Gloria Loring, , Marsden Smith, Tom Tally

Customer Reviews:

From her heart!.......2006-05-13

I have seen Gloria Loring perform live and I saw her last week on "The View" speaking about her son's battle with Diabetes. She sang "I Always Will" and blew me away with her beautiful voice and genuine spirit. This song is the most precious gift a mother could give her child. The entire CD is wonderful. Gloria always sings from the bottom of her heart with every intention to please us all.
I also read her new book "Moving Past The Fear: Living With Type 2 Diabetes" What a resource for anyone dealing with the disease!!!

Turn the Page.......2001-09-21

She is one of the greats! If you love vocals with style and class. Purchase any CD by Gloria Loring.

What a musical gift!!!.......2001-09-18

Gloria Loring sings with a power and clarity seldom heard in popular music. Turn the Page is another achievement in her prolific career. After listening to this album one feels they have been through a very personal musical journey. It is a journey which will touch your heart and leave you inspired. Be sure to check out her new CD By Request.

Gloria truly has a wonderful voice.......2000-12-17

I have listened to Gloria Loring for many years, beginning with "Days of our Lives", then on cassettes, later. I have purchased all of her cassettes, and will be buying her newest one, "By Request", very soon. The song that touches my heart, though, is "A song of My Father". She really pours her heart and feelings out in a tribute song to her dad.

GOOD NEWS:.......2000-11-20

Great news for the fans of Gloria Loring. This CD, "Turn The Page" is one of the best she has recorded, but soon another one will be added to the long list. I recieved a letter from Gloria Loring herself and she is anticipating that her new album "By Request" will be available in the first part of December 2000 and avaible for shipping by Christmas. To all out there, if you do not have this CD "Turn The Page", I do suggest that you add it to your collection. Gloria Loring is a great singer and a wonderful person.

Average customer rating:

Turn the Page Gloria Loring Manufacturer: Silk Purse ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Television Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000DEQE6 Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

1. Turn the Page
2. About Love
3. Heaven Knows
4. Fixing a Hole
5. Barely Breathing
6. Not Gonna Go There
7. Twenty Years Girltime
8. Talk to Me
9. I in Me
10. Song of My Father - Charlie Bisharat, Gloria Loring, , Marsden Smith, Tom Tally
11. Real Thing
12. I Hear You Calling
13. Invited to the Dance
14. I Always Will (Brennan's Song) - Charlie Bisharat, Gloria Loring, , Marsden Smith, Tom Tally

Average customer rating: Tracks

...Sow's Ear From a Silk Purse The Weasels Manufacturer: WezlWrx ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000JHH1LA

Customer Reviews:

Tracks.......2006-10-08

1. Act Like A Fool
2. Only Girl For Me
3. Bar Band
4. Brand New Year
5. Tomorrow
6. Tryin' To Forget
7. We Got Married
8. Hot Rod VCR
9. Distance
10. Can't Forget About You
11. Let's Get Down To Business

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How Like Ghosts Are We Manufacturer: Silk Purse Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Celtic | Europe | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000K01U Release Date: 1998-03-15

Tracks:

1. On the Trail of Tears (trad/DNL)
2. The Deserter/Brief Poem (trad/DNL)
3. Moreton Bay (trad/Frank the Poet)
4. A Ballad of Cole Younger/Suqullay yamanyawy (trad/DNL)
5. A Ballad of Roger Casement (trad/Yeats/DNL-- words by Yeats set to music by permission of A. P. Wat Ltd on behalf of Anne and Michael Yeats)
6. Isn't It Grand/The Laird o' Cockpen/Lady Owen's Delight (trad/DNL)
7. The Bird in the Bush (trad)
8. The Greenhorn Woodcutters (trad/Boulton/DNL)
9. Bold Johnny Barleycorn (trad/DNL)
10. The Road to Liz Bang Bodhran (DNL)
11. Farewell to Liverpool/Off2CA (trad/DNL)

Album Description

"How Like Ghosts Are We: trad/DNL songs beyond the Celtic Pale." In a way the title explains all. There is something haunted and feral to this album of Celtic Americana. David Nigel Lloyd recorded it in his small studio in the Southern Sierra Nevada where -over the last ten years-he has grown a little haunted and feral himself.

Because of this seclusion, DNL has little in common with the current Celtic Boom. On this album, he bears more of a resemblance to the British folk performers of the 1960s and the Gaelic poets that came in the century before them. However, the art of Celtic song has rarely if ever been handled like DNL handles it here. Though the mixing of traditional and original material has itself a long and honorable tradition, DNL sees traditional material with the eyes of a poet. He does not ask the traditional to accommodate the literary or vice versa. The two can sort things out for themselves. The result is much more edgy than most contemporary Celtic music.

The title, "How Like Ghosts Are We," is taken from the last verse of "On the Trail of Tears," the album's opening song. Sung to the familiar tune of "The Foggy Foggy Dew," it goes:

I wish you could see how like ghosts are we, Like some wretched souvenirs of our horrid plight, of our desperate might Of our making Is the Trail of Tears.

But the title is not to be taken only in this existential sense. It also refers to DNL's technique of inviting a tune's old meaning and associations to 'haunt' the new ones his words provide. Thus the traditional ghost haunts the literary tenant. More than half the album consists of these, as he calls them, trad/DNL songs. The balance being three traditional songs sung straight and one original song sung traditionally -more or less.

DNL is not the only literary tenant of this haunted house: "A Ballad of Roger Casement"** sets excerpts of two poems by William Butler Yeats to music. The lyrics of "The Laird o' Cockpen" are replaced with familiar quotations from T. S. Eliot. "The Greenhorn Woodcutters" is based on "The Loch Tay Boat Song," itself a literary ballad by Sir H. E. Boulton. "Moreton Bay" was originally a poem by a Nineteenth Century Australian convict known as Frank the Poet.

The form, the melodies and sensibilities of the songs on "Ghosts" derive recognizably from British and Irish traditional material. However, the instrumentation, particularly the use of pedal steel guitar on "The Greenhorn Woodcutters" and "Bold Johnny Barleycorn," is deliberately intended to give some of these ghosts American accents.

Although each of the album's eleven songs stands alone, they can also be treated as a whole: "Ghosts" begins with a personal song of immigration followed by five songs of prisoners and death; two songs of love (or something like it); a song of booze; a song of mirage; and ends with a song of immigration reconstructed. It is in many ways a very personal album even though it is populated with historical and mythical figures: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Captain Logan, the James and Younger Brothers, Roger Casement, God, Johnny Barleycorn, the Green Man and the Nut Brown Girl.

"How Like Ghosts Are We" is David Nigel Lloyd's fourth album. In its production he has followed his usual habit of recording the vocal and guitar or octar live so as to obtain a compelling performance; music that's good on paper is not necessarily music. Other instruments get added to the recording later. Among accompanying musicians are old friends from DNL's Mojave Desert Ceilidh Band. DNL's daughter Ursula, who was 12 at the time of the recording, played pennywhistle and assisted with the audio engineering. It is her portrait that haunts the cover of the CD. Gita, Ursula's mother and DNL's wife painted it.

Copyright 1991 by David Nigel Lloyd **The words from "Roger Casement" (extract 7 lines) and "The Ghost of Roger Casement" (extract: 4 lines) taken from "The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats are set to music by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd. on behalf of Anne and Michael Yeats.

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Is There Anybody Out There Gloria Loring Manufacturer: Silk Purse Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000E84U Release Date: 1995-02-07

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