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NEIL YOUNG: FREEDOM (Reprise). Typical sore-throat vocalizing but unusually acute songwriting from a still ornery spirit. Along with a timely Rockin' in the Free World, two tunes with Linda Ronstadt singing harmony show that he's kept going these 20 years on heart as well as spunk...
...LINDA RONSTADT: CRY LIKE A RAINSTORM, HOWL LIKE THE WIND (Elektra/Asylum). Ronstadt takes lessons learned from her three successful albums of pop standards and puts them to work on the kind of material she did so well in the '70s: confessional ballads and songs of love gone amiss. The cathedral- filling orchestral arrangements threaten the fragile structure of some songs, but Ronstadt's singing (superbly accompanied on four tracks by New Orleans soulster Aaron Neville) keeps everything on course...
COAST TO COAST (Showtime, June 17, 11 p.m. EDT). Singers Kenny Loggins and Linda Ronstadt, country stylist Lyle Lovett and jazz pianist Harry Connick Jr. provide eclectic sounds for a summer night in this edition of the occasional music series...
Geffen started his own label, Asylum, in 1970 and became the leading purveyor of the California Sound. Among his artists: Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne. After selling Asylum to Warner Bros. in 1972 and running it for three years, Geffen spent an unsatisfying year as vice chairman of Warner's movie division. "I had to deal with bureaucracy and politics. It just didn't work," he explains...
DAVID LINDLEY & EL RAYO-X: VERY GREASY (Elektra/Asylum). Good-time music to dance to, or goof to, much of it with a Caribbean inflection. Produced by Linda Ronstadt, with minimal sheen and plenty of humor...