Search results
May 30, 2010 · Roll Um Easy--Linda Ronstadt.wmv. from Prisoner In Disguise (1975)... Lyrics: Well I am just a vagabond A drifter on the run And eloquent profanity It rolls right off my tongue And I have...
- 3 min
- 37K
- ceeeeeg
LInda Ronstadt performs Lowell George’s song “Roll Um Easy”. Recorded at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ on December 6, 1975. “Roll Um Easy” was first released by Little Feat on their ...
- 3 min
- 1544
- redmiller1
Linda Ronstadt - Roll Um EasyRecorded Live: 12/6/1975 - Capitol Theatre - Passaic, NJMore Linda Ronstadt at Music Vault: http://www.musicvault.comSubscribe t...
- 3 min
- 21.6K
- Folk & Country on MV
- 'What's new'
- 'Hay unos Ojos'
- 'When I Fall in Love'
- 'I Never Will Marry'
- 'Lo Siento MI Vida'
- 'Willin''
- 'Heat Wave'
- 'Love Has No Pride'
- 'Dark End of The Street'
- 'Silver Threads and Golden Needles'
There's a reason Ronstadt chose this torch song first recorded by Bob Crosby and His Orchestra in 1939 as both the title track and lead single when she hit us with the first installment in a trilogy of albums exploring the Great American Songbook with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. It's a stunning performance of a classic song that added new dimensio...
Ronstadt was among the biggest pop stars of the '70s, with three chart-topping albums and a string of Top 10 singles. But it wasn't until 1987 that she had the industry support to do her dream project, an album titled "Canciones de Mi Padre" honoring the Mexican side of her heritage with the support of Mariachi Vargas, Mariachi Los Camperos and Mar...
Doris Day released the first hit version of this song in 1952. Ronstadt's version appeared as the opening track on "Lush Life," her second collection of jazz standards recorded with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. But there's nothing especially lush about Riddle's arrangement here. It opens with a lone guitarist accompanying Ronstadt's understated voc...
Ronstadt's future Trio partner Dolly Parton supplies unmistakably Parton-esque harmonies on this wonderfully sparse and beautiful rendition of a traditional ballad about a woman who vows she never will marry "for the only man I ever loved has gone on the morning train." She'd previously sung this song on Johnny Cash's TV show in 1969, trading vocal...
Years before she managed to convince the suits at Asylum to sign off on her "Canciones de Mi Padre" project, Ronstadt slipped this understated Spanish-language song into the mix on "Hasten Down the Wind." It's a Mexican folk ballad written by Ronstadt with her father, Gilbert Ronstadt, and former bandmate, Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards, who ...
This song was written by Lowell George while still a member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and subsequently cut by George's own band, Little Feat, in a stark acoustic arrangement on their debut and again in a full-band arrangement on their second album, "Sailin' Shoes." Ronstadt's version splits the difference between those arrangements with...
One of two Motown classics Ronstadt covered on "Prisoner in Disguise," her take on "Heat Wave" peaked at No. 5 on Billboard's Hot 100, despite it being relegated to the B-side of "Love Is a Rose," a Neil Young song that plays more to the country side of her aesthetic. You can hear the debt to Martha Reeves, whose version topped the R&B charts, in t...
Bonnie Raitt's original recording of this melancholy torch song is an understated treasure. Ronstadt's take is more impassioned. She sings as though she's overwhelmed with what she's feeling, from the relative restraint of her delivery on "I've had bad dreams too many times to think that they don't mean much any more" to the full-on desperation she...
This heartbreaking cheater's lament was originally done in 1967 by the great James Carr, who peaked at No. 10 on Billboard's Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles charts with his gospel-tinged version. Many artists had recorded it, from Percy Sledge to the Flying Burrito Brothers and Aretha Franklin by the time it found its way to Ronstadt's first chart-toppi...
There's a video on YouTube of Ronstadt introducing this song — first recorded by the Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson — as "the first country-rock song I ever learned." Even the version on 1969's "Hand Sown... Home Grown," with its oddly psychedelic fuzz-guitar lick, is closer to straight-up country, though, than country-rock. And the version on ...
- Pop Music Critic
- Ed Masley
- 4 min
Let It Roll is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 1988. Eight of the ten songs on the album were co-written by new band member Craig Fuller, the founding member of Pure Prairie League. Fuller also takes most lead vocals.
Apr 9, 2024 · Why did Ronstadt decide to cover it? And how did this "afterthought" become one of her most beloved songs? Let's take a look at Ronstadt's version of "It's So Easy," from conception to...
People also ask
Who is Linda Ronstadt?
Does 'let it roll' really work?
What are Ronstadt's best songs?
What year did Little Feat release 'Hoy-Hoy' & 'Let It Roll'?
Jul 15, 2021 · Rolling Stone called it “the Ronstadt album for which we’ve been waiting...it surpasses in almost every respect her excellent Capitol album of last year, revealing Linda’s supreme vocal abilities in a fine production setting”.
