Get Closer (Linda Ronstadt album)
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| Studio album by Linda Ronstadt | ||||
| Released | September 1982 | |||
| Recorded | August 1981 - August 1982 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 36:31 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Producer | Peter Asher | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | C+ |
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Get Closer (1982) is a Grammy Award-winning album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt.
Get Closer found Ronstadt returning to the genres that had resulted in her commercial and critical success throughout the 1970s, and working again with British musician and producer Peter Asher.
The album contained two tracks originally recorded for but never included on previous albums. The first, a re-make of Jones' "Sometimes You Just Can't Win," was recorded in June 1977 with J. D. Souther on harmony vocals and intended for the album Simple Dreams. The other, a remake of Dolly Parton's 1971 composition "My Blue Tears," was performed with Parton and Emmylou Harris as part of a planned trio album that, because of scheduling and record company conflicts, was never released. The trio's version was originally recorded in January 1978 (Parton, Ronstadt and Harris would eventually record and release the first of two Trio albums in 1987). Also on Get Closer was a duet with James Taylor: a remake of Ike and Tina Turner's "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine".
Asylum Records released Get Closer in late September 1982. Reviewers wrote about a newfound confidence in Ronstadt's vocals. Ken Tucker of Rolling Stone magazine wrote in his November 11 review, "Linda Ronstadt's voice has never sounded better than it does on Get Closer...its spirit is unassailable." Noting her turn in Pirates, Tucker wrote that Ronstadt's vocal development on Broadway "hasn't made her self-conscious. Just the opposite, in fact: Linda Ronstadt is no longer a prisoner of technique." Tucker did decry much of the album's second side, saying that some of the oldies in the soul genre were performed too meticulously.
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