Silk Purse
Her second solo album, cut in Nashville with Area Code 615, and the home of Long Long Time.
Linda Ronstadt, 1970
- Released
- 13 April 1970
- Recorded
- January to February 1970
- Studio
- Cinderella Sound and Woodland Sound, Nashville
- Label
- Capitol
- Producer
- Elliot Mazer
- Length
- 29:14
Recorded in Nashville with Elliot Mazer producing, Adam Mitchell as musical director and players from the session group Area Code 615, with some work finished in San Francisco. It sets Lovesick Blues and Mel Tillis's Mental Revenge beside songs by Mickey Newbury, Goffin and King, Paul Siebel and Gary White, and it was her first album to chart in the US. Rolling Stone said her voice was what made the record, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine heard the Nashville sessions as clarifying. Ronstadt herself told Rolling Stone in 1975 that she hated it, and that she could not sing then.
Track listing
- Lovesick Blues2:07
- Are My Thoughts with You?2:47
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow2:27
- Nobody's2:56
- Louise3:25
- Long Long Time4:21
- Mental Revenge2:46
- I'm Leaving It All Up to You2:21
- He Darked the Sun2:40
- Life Is Like a Mountain Railway3:24
Personnel
- Linda Ronstadt vocals
- Elliot Mazer producer
- Adam Mitchell musical director
- Norbert Putnam bass; arranger and conductor on Long Long Time
- Buddy Spicher fiddle
- Weldon Myrick steel guitar
- Kenny Buttrey arranger and conductor on Lovesick Blues
- Gary White vocals on Louise
- Fred Catero, Howard Gale, Lee Hazen, Wayne Moss engineers
More from Linda Ronstadt
Don't Cry Now (1973), Heart Like a Wheel (1974), Canciones de Mi Padre (1987)
Sources
- Silk Purse (Linda Ronstadt album), Wikipedia
- Silk Purse, Capitol ST-407, Discogs
- Ben Fong-Torres on Linda Ronstadt, Rolling Stone (via ronstadt-linda.com) (1975-03-27)