“Lose Again” by Linda Ronstadt

"Lose Again" was a brand-new Karla Bonoff song when Linda Ronstadt recorded it for her 1976 album Hasten Down the Wind, and it reached her through her own band: Kenny Edwards, who was going out with Bonoff at the time, played her the demo, and she liked it enough to cut it. Bonoff was still an up-and-comer then, a songwriter waiting on her own break, and she wrote several of the album's tracks.

Ronstadt sings lead over Edwards on bass, Andrew Gold on acoustic guitar, piano and string synthesizer, Dan Dugmore on electric guitar, Michael Botts on drums and Dennis Karmazyn on cello, with Val Garay recording and mixing. Pulled as the album's third single in May 1977, it ended up among her lowest-charting singles in the US and Canada, but Cashbox sang its praises.

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