Which is to say it has the feel of an authentic rockabilly record, from the slapback of the echo to the twang of those guitar licks and the doo-wop flavor of those backing vocals. Although the track is credited to the Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt, she's the only member of the group that actually appears on the recording, which features future Eagle Bernie Leadon, session ace Jim Gordon and jazz bassist Jimmy Bond. topped by Ronstadt vowing "All I'm sayin' is I'm not ready for any person, place or thing tryin' to pull the reins in on me" with total conviction.

It includes material from both her Capitol Records and Asylum Records output, and goes back to 1967 for The Stone Poneys' hit " Different Drum. Linda Ronstadt’s Greatest Hits will be reissued on black 180g vinyl with a special textured jacket for International Women’s History Month on March 4, 2022. And the version on 1973's "Don't Cry Now" album, where the fiddle player and steel guitarist share a solo, went Top 20 on the country charts.When fellow Arizonan Stevie Nicks led a stage full of powerful women in saluting Ronstadt at her induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this is the song they chose to bring that all-start tribute to a fitting close.

She does add steel guitar, which lends a bit of country flavor to the mix and may explain why this one charted higher on the country charts (No. Linda Ronstadt interview: From Tucson to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, her lifetime love affair with music 25.Pete Asher's production just toughens it up a bit to make sense on an album widely seen as Ronstadt doing what she can to navigate the New Wave waters of the day. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The thread connecting all those very different projects is the strength of her vocal performances and her ability to get inside the essence of a song. The most subdued of Ronstadt's Buddy Holly covers (this one written by Paul Anka) takes its cue from the despair in Anka's lyrics, not the skip in Holly's step on the original recording. In a similar vein, she handled the Motown standard, "Heat Wave," like a pro, this time giving it the slightest hint of a country twang.