Word: ronstadt
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...Newman's corrosive wit. It's music of an ambition and quality not often heard outside the work of Stephen Sondheim (whom Newman reveres), and it is performed on the album with tremendous brio by James Taylor, who sports a no-sweat self-mocking cool as God; Linda Ronstadt as the tremulous, winsome Margaret; Bonnie Raitt as Martha, a piece of trade tough enough to wring out the devil's heart; and Don Henley as Faust, reborn here as a guitar-strumming freshman at Notre Dame who's slacker enough to sign Satan's contract for his soul without great...
...best cuts are those that pair Sinatra with distinctive singers confident enough simply to be themselves. Patti LaBelle brings a rich, unfettered soulfulness to Bewitched, Linda Ronstadt an easy clarity to Moonlight in Vermont. Rumor had it that Axl Rose was to have appeared on Duets II. One wonders what he might have done with My Kind of Town, a song that here couples Sinatra with his most unabashed emulator, Frank Sinatra...
Through and past all the misunderstanding and inattention, Webb kept writing, and some people, like Ronstadt, kept listening. Faith and persistence may not cash out in Webb's best songs -- he is better writing about dreams lost and remembered than dreams come true -- but real life, for once, is a little more favorably inclined. Suspending Disbelief is an important record of an important American tale teller, our best raveler of the blind spots of the heart...
...Ball featured performances from DonHenley and REM. Performers at the balls rangedfrom Willie Nelson to the Fabulous Thunderbirds toLinda Ronstadt...
Young's sweet voice, backed by stellar vocalists James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, makes for a fine sound. Love stories are ample here, but they are subtle and, in some cases, sublimely subversive. In "Unknown Legend," for example, Young sings of a a distant passion: "Somewhere in a desert highway/She rides a Harley-Davidson." In print, it's not the most romantic image in the world, but the music--and Ronstadt's voice--brings the image to life...