Silk Purse (Linda Ronstadt album)
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| Studio album by Linda Ronstadt | ||||
| Released | March 1970 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 28:26 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Elliot F. Mazer | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    |
| Robert Christgau | B |
| Rolling Stone | (mixed) |
Silk Purse is the second studio album by Linda Ronstadt, released in March 1970, a year after the release of her solo debut, Hand Sown ... Home Grown. It was recorded at Woodland Recording Studios in Nashville – the only Ronstadt album recorded in the country music capital – and was produced by Elliot Mazer, who had previously worked with Richie Havens, Gordon Lightfoot, James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, Chubby Checker and Frank Sinatra. Mazer was recommended to Linda by Janis Joplin, who she knew from the local night clubs.
The album features songs in a traditional country music setting. Ronstadt later remarked that "Nashville Country is very different from California Country." This album, like its predecessor, was also different in style and sound from Ronstadt's previous Folk Rock work with the Stone Poneys.
Silk Purse includes interpretations of the Hank Williams song "Lovesick Blues" and Mel Tillis's "Mental Revenge," and a version of the traditional song "Life Is Like A Mountain Railway." The album also features a remake of "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" – the Gerry Goffin-Carole King song recorded by The Shirelles in 1961 – and a harmony duet with Texan Gary White on the Paul Siebel ballad "Louise," later covered by Bonnie Raitt.
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