Hasten Down the Wind | ||||
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Released | August 9, 1976 | |||
Recorded | March 1976 | |||
Studio | Sound Factory (Hollywood) | |||
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Length | 41:23 | |||
Label | Asylum | |||
Producer | Peter Asher | |||
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Singles from Hasten Down the Wind | ||||
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Source | Rating |
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Christgau's Record Guide | B− [2] |
Rolling Stone | (average) [3] |
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Hasten Down the Wind is the seventh studio album by Linda Ronstadt. Released in 1976, it became her third straight million-selling album. Ronstadt was the first female artist to accomplish this feat. [6] The album earned her a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female in 1977, her second of 13 Grammys. It represented a slight departure from 1974's Heart Like a Wheel and 1975's Prisoner in Disguise in that she chose to showcase new songwriters over the traditional country rock sound she had been producing up to that point. A more serious and poignant album than its predecessors, it won critical acclaim.[ citation needed ]
Hasten Down the Wind contained two major hit singles: Ronstadt's covers of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day" (US Pop #11, Country #27) and her reworking of the late Patsy Cline's 1961 hit, "Crazy", reaching #6 on the US Country chart in early 1977. [7]
The album showcased songs from artists such as Warren Zevon ("Hasten Down the Wind") and Karla Bonoff ("Someone to Lay Down Beside Me", US #42, Easy Listening #38), both of whom would soon be making a name for themselves in the singer-songwriter world. The album included a cover of a cover: "The Tattler" by Washington Phillips, which Ry Cooder had re-arranged for his 1974 album Paradise and Lunch . The album also included two songs co-written by Ronstadt, including one in Spanish (her first recorded foray into Spanish music, more than a decade before she released her first fully-Spanish album).
Her third album to go platinum, Hasten Down the Wind spent several weeks in the top three of the Billboard album charts. It was also the second of four number 1 Country albums for her.[ citation needed ]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Lose Again" | Karla Bonoff | 3:34 |
2. | "The Tattler" | Ry Cooder, Russ Titelman, Washington Phillips | 3:56 |
3. | "If He's Ever Near" | Karla Bonoff | 3:15 |
4. | "That'll Be the Day" | Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty | 2:32 |
5. | "Lo Siento Mi Vida" (I'm Sorry My Love) | Linda Ronstadt, Kenny Edwards, Gilbert Ronstadt | 3:54 |
6. | "Hasten Down the Wind" | Warren Zevon | 2:40 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Rivers of Babylon" | Brent Dowe, Trevor McNaughton | 0:52 |
2. | "Give One Heart" | John Hall, Johanna Hall | 4:07 |
3. | "Try Me Again" | Linda Ronstadt, Andrew Gold | 3:59 |
4. | "Crazy" | Willie Nelson | 3:58 |
5. | "Down So Low" | Tracy Nelson | 4:08 |
6. | "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me" | Karla Bonoff | 4:28 |
Total length: | 41:23 |
Chart (1976/77) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report) [8] | 28 |
United Kingdom (Official Charts Company) | 32 |
United States (Billboard 200) | 3 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI) [9] | Silver | 60,000^ |
United States (RIAA) [10] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format | Label | Ref. |
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North America | August 9, 1976 |
| Asylum Records | [11] |
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