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...DISGUISE (Asylum; $6.98). A year ago, Ronstadt's amazing Heart Like a Wheel album helped make her top woman singer in the Top 40s, or pretty close to it. Ronstadt sings about loss and desperation; her big, beautiful soprano radiates vulnerability. She comes naturally to heartbreakers like Dolly Parton's country classic / Will Always Love You or the old Smokey Robinson hit Tracks of My Tears. On Heat Wave Ronstadt breaks into a real rocker...
Ronstadt has sharpened her insight and precision to the point that she can take a rather ordinary, straightforward number like Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" and make it into a serious love song. Her sensitive, full-bodied rendition is a sterling display of her emotional depth and complexity...
...through "Revival" and into "Blue Skies" and when Duane was killed broke out into the album Brothers and Sisters with "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica" and "Pony Boy." For his solo album he picked up fiddler Vassar Clements (the best) and an old pedal steel player of Dolly Parton's, and some of the Allmans, to produce Highway Call. All together it's the finest collection of road music--sounds to drive by, preferably for long distances--ever assembled...
Barton attributed Quincy's success this spring to a great bunch of sophomores and to seniors who have been turning out since finishing their theses. "And having girls in the House has strangely made us more sports-conscious than ever," Parton added...
Salty Flavor. The book, originally the idea of American Heritage President James Parton, took four years to produce. It is designed somewhat like the Petit Larousse, and has plenty of illustrations in the margins. An arcane glossary of Indo-European word roots lends it a patina of intellectuality, and a listing of almost all the outhouse and bawdyhouse four-letter verbs gives it a salty flavor. To comb out the neologisms and solecisms, the editors consulted a usage panel of 104 unpaid judges, mainly journalists and other writers. Among them: Russell Baker, Vermont Royster, Red Smith and Dwight Macdonald...