Don’t Cry Now by Linda Ronstadt

Don't Cry Now, released October 1, 1973, was Linda Ronstadt's fourth solo studio album, her first for Asylum and her first with Peter Asher producing. Most of its ten tracks are other people's songs, with a handful of new ones in the mix, and that's the point: Ronstadt was the interpreter, the voice that could take a tune and make you forget anyone else ever sang it.

The sound straddles country folk, country rock and pop rock, rootsy one minute and glossy the next, and her voice, big and aching and utterly unforced, rides over all of it. "Love Has No Pride" is the heartbreaker, a torch song sung with the kind of wounded power that makes grown men pull over to the side of the road. Reviews were friendly, it charted in several countries, and it went gold in the US.

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