Winter Light (Linda Ronstadt album)
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| Studio album by Linda Ronstadt | ||||
| Released | November 23, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | 1993, The Site, San Rafael, California; Skywalker ranch, California | |||
| Genre | Pop, New-age, Art rock | |||
| Length | 45:47 | |||
| Label | Elektra/WEA International | |||
| Producer | George Massenburg, Linda Ronstadt | |||
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Winter Light is an out of print album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt, released in late 1993. Although its total sales capped at 248,410 copies - according to Nielsen SoundScan - at the time of its deletion, it still stands as one of Linda's most acclaimed albums.
Winter Light was Ronstadt's first solo album since Don't Cry Now not to be produced by Peter Asher. She elected to produce it herself along with George Massenburg. The album maarked Ronstadt's increased responsibilities and confidence behind the boards, this time achieving a multi-layered Enya-styled New Age-oriented sound, as in Anna McGarrigle's "Heartbeats Accelerating" — the album's first hit single — and Brian Wilson's "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on my Shoulder)". "Heartbeats Accelerating" featured a popular music video while another track, a remake of the classic 1960s R&B hit, "Oh No, Not My Baby", was a Top 30 Adult Contemporary hit for Linda in the spring of 1994.
Other aspects of the album show Ronstadt paying tribute to great female vocalists of the 1960s with a combination of rock n roll, oldies, and rock ballads. Three of the songs - "Anyone Who Had A Heart", "Oh No Not My Baby" and "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" - had been previously recorded by Dusty Springfield. Ronstadt selected classic compositions from various songwriters such as Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Jimmy Webb as well as contemporary ones such as Tish Hinojosa. The album also showcased Ronstadt the singer-songwriter and music arranger, introducing her own composition, "Winter Light," which was notably covered by Sarah Brightman on her 2001 album, Classics and Chloë Agnew for her Walking In The Air album.
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