Monday, June 23, 2008

Linda Ronstadt - Silk Purse

Silk Purse is Linda Ronstadt's second solo album, released in March 1970. It was recorded at Woodland Recording Studios in Nashville. The album featured songs in a heavier, more traditional country setting than Ronstadt's previous album or her work with the Stone Poneys. Linda were backed up by the pioneering band Swampwater featuring Gib Guilbeau (vocals & fiddle), John Beland (vocals, guitars, dobro), Thad Maxwell(bass), Eric White (bass) and Stan Pratt (drums). Gib & John later played also in the Flying Burrito Brothers and scored 9 hits for Curb in the 80’s. The cover shows Linda with Paul McCartney in front.

4 comments:

  1. TheSeekerJune 23, 2008 at 1:43 PM

    http://lix.in/-282a0b
    Quality: 320 kb/s.

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  2. AnonymousJune 7, 2010 at 3:48 AM

    Excellent! What an awesome country record. THANKS!!

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  3. Hazy DaveAugust 26, 2010 at 4:37 PM

    Paul McCartney, huh? Hah.

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  4. TheSeekerAugust 26, 2010 at 9:54 PM

    @Hazy Dave:
    Congatulations, you're the very first person to wonder about this. In 1971 Mr. Lennon released his fine solo album Imagine. Imagine was packed with a photography showing John with a pig fighting. The pig was a sign to no other than Paul McCartney and he answered with the cover of his Ram album. So the pig could be the same as on Lindas cover, who knows. ;-)

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