Posted On: Thursday - August 13th 2020 8:12PM MST
In Topics: Music
In our Linda Ronstadt movie review, Peak Stupidity expressed our shock that we had not featured any of her great music before. It's time to remedy that right now.
As we noted, Miss Ronstadt didn't write very many of her songs. Every single one that I consider a good one was written by another writer/artist. It's So Easy was written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and performed by Buddy Holly and the Crickets back in 1958. You gotta always give the writer(s) credit, but I will say I like Linda Rondstadt and her band's version better (perhaps because I heard it first).
I bring up the band, because that's important. Miss Ronstadt had such a great voice, but this song would not be one of my favorites without that band - the guitar, bass guitar, drums, and just the right amount of cowbell!
From the album Simple Dreams, this song went to number 5 on the Billboard magazine top 100 chart in 1977.
Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me was written by the late great Warren Zevon**. He had it on his eponymous album in 1976, and then Linda Rondstadt released it in 1978, from that same Simple Dreams album. I really like that hard-rocking guitar sound - I wish that ending would just gone on for longer. Oh, more cowbell? You got it!**
A youtube commenter (under the first video):
Rob Saunders 4 years ago (edited)
"She could sing the phone book and still sound better than any singers today."
* Peak Stupidity has featured his music 3 times so far, here, here, and here.
** OK, he's hitting the rim of the snare drum, but it's the poor man's cowbell.
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