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...LINDA RONSTADT: PRISONER IN 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...
Those who come to the Music Hall on Dec. 8 will see Linda Ronstadt at the nelm and if success hasn't spoiled her, this could be one of the best performances of the year...
...right now Springsteen represents a regeneration, a renewal of rock. He has gone back to the sources, rediscovered the wild excitement that rock has lost over the past few years. Things had settled down in the '70s: with a few exceptions, like Paul Simon, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt, there was an excess of showmanship, too much din substituting for true power, repetition-as in this past summer's Rolling Stones tour-for lack of any new directions. Springsteen has taken rock forward by taking it back, keeping it young. He uses and embellishes the myths...
...Prisoner in Disguise are two tedious songs by John David Souther, who apparently thinks that if you make a song long, slow, and wordy, people will think it's profound or at least sensitive. But these two--"Silver Blue" and the title song--are simply boring: in singing them, Ronstadt almost defies the listener to pay attention...
Prisoner in Disguise, more skillful and refined than even Heart Like A Wheel, is Ronstadt's best production. The unrestrained, often sloppy amateur of only a couple of years ago has become a disciplined artist with one of the most forceful, versatile voices in rock, folk, or country music. She isn't doing as much experimenting as she used to, and maybe that means she is resting on her laurels. More likely it means she finds it more useful to continue developing and polishing the styles with which she has been most successful. That has been a continuing challenge...