Ronstadt was the first female artist to accomplish this feat. Released in 1976, it became her third straight million-selling album. " That'll Be the Day" ( Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) - 2:32 Hasten Down the Wind is the seventh studio album by singer-songwriter Linda Ronstadt."If He's Ever Near" ( Karla Bonoff) - 3:15."The Tattler" ( Ry Cooder, Russ Titelman, Washington Phillips - 3:56.
Linda's subsequent album was one of her best-selling ever, 1977's Simple Dreams. It was also the second of four #1 Country albums for her. Hasten itself spent several weeks in the Top Three of the Billboard album charts. This was Ronstadt's third album to go Platinum. A seductive reworking of Patsy Cline's classic "Crazy' was a Top 10 Country hit for Linda in early 1977. An exquisite treatment of the Tracy Nelson standard "Down So Low" and two Ronstadt-penned songs completed an array of immaculately chosen and delivered songs.
The album showcased Ronstadt by way of songs such as the likes of Warren Zevon's "Hasten Down The Wind" and Karla Bonoff's "Someone To Lay Down Beside Me", both of whom would indeed soon be making a name for themselves in the singer-songwriter world. It is a more serious, more poignant album than its predecessors and won immediate critical acclaim from critics and the general public alike. 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 this point. The album earned Linda her second of a record 10 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female in early 1977. Ronstadt was the first female artist in history to accomplish this feat. In short, we sometimes have to lose things to reveal who we really are.Hasten Down The Wind is a 1976 album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt and Ronstadt's third straight million-selling album. But recognizing that this is not meant to be and letting these things go allows us to perhaps find our truer selves. We often hold onto things–people, ideas and hopes and dreams– that don’t truly fit with who we are with the thin hope that things will somehow change to match our perceptions. There is something bittersweet yet liberating in this idea that sometimes things are just not meant to be. I see this in this painting with the Red Tree reluctantly holding onto those leaves as they struggle to depart on the wind even though it knows that it has to be this way, that they must leave. The song is about the end of a relationship, where the girl recognizes that nothing is working for them any more and the guy finally grudgingly admits it as well, telling her to leave, to go hasten down the wind. I just always loved the imagery in that phrase– hasten down the wind– and thought it fit well with this piece. If that sounds familiar you probably remember the old Warren Zevon song from the the 70’s most famously covered by Linda Ronstadt on her album with the same title. It’s 10″ by 30″ on canvas and is titled Hasten Down the Wind. This is a painting that I finished over the weekend.
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