Hand Sown Home Grown [Import]

1. Baby, You've Been on My Mind

2. Silver Threads and Golden Needles

3. Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad

4. Number and a Name

5. Only Mama That'll Walk the Line

6. Long Way Around

7. Break My Mind

8. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

9. It's About Time

10. We Need a Lot More of Jesus (And a Lot Less Rock & Roll)

11. Dolphins

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Reissue of Ronstadt's first solo album originally released in 1969. This album features covers of Dylan & Randy Newman. Capitol.

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Hand Sown Home Grown [Import]

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Terrific Early Effort By An Emerging Superstar!
An early country-folk-rock classic

Hand Sown..Home Grown
Linda Ronstadt
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000006LAA
Release Date: 2004-01-12

Tracks:

Baby, You've Been on My Mind
Silver Threads and Golden Needles
Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad
Number and a Name
Only Mama That'll Walk the Line
Long Way Around
Break My Mind
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
It's About Time
We Need a Lot More of Jesus (And a Lot Less Rock & Roll)
Dolphins

Album Description

Reissue of Ronstadt's first solo album originally released in 1969. This album features covers of Dylan & Randy Newman. Capitol.

Album Details

The Southern California Icon's Debut Solo Album Following the Success of the Stone Poney's "Different Drum". She Scored Another Minor Chart Hit with "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" and Marked Time with this Album as She Began the Process of Refining her Laid Back Recording Style that Would Come to Fruition on her Next Two Albums.

Customer Reviews:

Terrific Early Effort By An Emerging Superstar!.......2004-09-14

While this is not a typical Ronstadt album, nor one recorded when she was really in her prime, it is a very early solo album that shows her potential for cranking out hits as well of those seemingly effortless and sometimes facile interpretations of other people's songs, showing just how original an artist she was. Like the legendary Johnny Rivers, who always seemed to have a magical touch for turning other people's work into brilliant covers and best-selling albums, Ronstadt here does a star turn with other people's songs. She shows here just how versatile and eclectic her approach to some interesting material could be. From a raucous hit song like Buddy Holly's "Break My Mind" to a sweet and soulful interpretation of the classic country tune, "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" or the plaintive "Number And A Name", Linda pulls out all of the stops, and although the album was panned critically, it was also her first album that really showcased her tremendous eclectic abilities.

Her fans knew what they liked, and they sure seemed to like this terrific collection of so many different genres gathered under a single tent. The opening tune, "Baby, You've been On My Mind", is a haunting, powerfully performed song. Then too, the soulful rendition of "Long Way Around" is powerfully interpreted. "Ill Be Your Baby Tonight" and "It's About Time" are sizzling, as is a well-arranged version of "Dolphins". She soars with an interpretation of the traditional "Bet Nobody Ever Hurt So Bad", and a lovely effort at blue-eyed soul with "Give One Heart". My personal favorite here is "We Need A Whole Lot More Of Jesus (And A Lot Less Rock and Roll", with its satirical messages about the dynamics of being human. All in all, this is a terrific album and one that is really a showcase for Linda at her early best. Enjoy!

An early country-folk-rock classic.......2003-12-24

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.

Silver threads and golden needles has been recorded by Linda Ronstadt at least twice - she re-recorded it for her seventies album, Don't cry now. Wanda Jackson originally recorded this song in the fifties but it was after Skeeter Davis covered it for her debut album that Dusty Springfield discovered it. It then became a top twenty American hit for the Springfields, with Dusty singing. Linda Ronstadt revived the song and also had success with it, though I will always regard the Springfields version as the definitive one.

There are two Bob Dylan covers here - Baby you've been on my mind and I'll be your baby tonight. The only mama that'll walk the line is a gender-adjusted cover of the Waylon Jennings classic, Only daddy that'll walk the line. Break my mind, written by John D Loudermilk, provided George Hamilton IV with a country hit and was covered by many country singers. There are many other excellent, if obscure, songs on this album

Customer Reviews:

Lovely Interim Effort by An Emerging Superstar!.......2003-07-15

This is a lovely album by Linda Ronstadt recorded in the brief period after she had left the Stone Ponies and before she really burst onto the scene with "Long Long Time". The collection included here are really much more country and even blue grass than she would move to later, but the effect of that clear, sharp voice on all these traditional songs is simply electrifying. I had the opportunity to see her at a small venue in Lenox, Massachusetts called the Music Inn, a country summer place where the performer was up on a covered stage which was more an open platform covered by a roof than anything else, and the audience was sprawled out across an expanse of lawn that made a natural sloping amphitheater. Of course, Linda and the small group she had backing her were simply spellbinding.

Here she works her way through a number of great songs, putting her own special style to magical work. From the traditional "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" which she delivers in her quite untraditional way by way of a raucous rock-a-billy style to a thoughtful "Break My Mind", this album showcases Linda uniquely controlled wail of a warbler's voice. This is terrific country work by a performer who was just starting to find her style and form. My favorite song is her interpretation of "The Long Way Around", which foreshadowed her many, many successful efforts to come. This is an album that is essential for any real Linda Ronstadt fan. Enjoy!

Hand Sown/Home Grown.......2002-12-07

Probably one of her best albums. Only Mama that'll Walk The Line for example is excellent, displaying Linda's tremendous vocal range, and it was never even heard on the radio as I recall. I damned near wore the grooves out of this record........z

A landmark album that went totally unrecognized.......2001-07-22

During the late 1960s, there was a sudden musical uprising known as country-rock. Acts like Poco, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez were all making albums that helped to reconnect rock and roll with its traditional white country music roots.

The year 1969 was pivotal for the genre. The Flying Burrito Brothers (led by Gram Parsons) released their landmark album THE GILDED PALACE OF SIN, which, although a huge flop in '69, is now seen as a landmark album. But another country-rock album from that year went equally unrecognized. That was HAND SOWN, HOME GROWN, the first solo album of ex-Stone Poney lead singer Linda Ronstadt.

Although as crude as any of the early albums in the country-rock genre, HAND SOWN shows us a powerful, hippie-type folk-rock singer really willing to explore country music and show it as more than hillbilly redneck noise. Linda's exuberant first version of the standard "Silver Threads And Golden Needles" is a great example of this, enhanced by fuzz-tone steel guitar (!). She also gives us some surprising versions of "The Only Mama That'll Walk The Line" and "Break My Mind", which are both hard-rocking and twangy at the same time. She concedes a quieter folk-rock pose for "The Long Way Around", which became a belated minor hit for her in the winter of 1971.

While many acts get a lot of credit for supposedly "starting" country-rock, including the Burritos, Linda Ronstadt was modestly putting her money where her big voice was from the start--and she never bragged. HAND SOWN, HOME GROWN hopefully will be seen as much a landmark country-rock album as those of the Burritos and the Byrds, because Linda eventually went on to outlast them all.

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