With her album 'Mad Love', which was released in 1980, Linda Ronstadt's career took a turn away from the country-rock style she'd succeeded with for more than a decade. The album reflected the advent in the later 1970's of punk rock and new wave music, and many veteran acts, including Fleetwood Mac, Carly Simon, Heart, Queen, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, made sincere (and often successful) efforts to revitalize their sound by adopting aspects of the stripped-down, unpretentious D.I.Y. punk and new wave aesthetic. 'Mad Love' was Ronstadt's response to this trend, and the record-buying public proved to be more adventurous than anticipated, making Ronstadt's risk pay off richly. Following that success she performed on Broadway in 1980/81, receiving a Tony nomination for her performance in 'The Pirates of Penzance', and during production of the play in New York she expressed a desire to record an album of standards. In 1981, she went into the studio with producer Jerry Wexler and a small jazz combo for a planned album titled 'Keeping Out Of Mischief', but she was dissatisfied with the results and cancelled its release. Although she would later revisit the concept (and most of the songs she'd attempted with Wexler) for a trilogy of albums with Nelson Riddle, her next album, 1982's 'Get Closer', was recorded to satisfy her label obligations, with Ronstadt working again with producer Peter Asher and returning to the genres that had resulted in her commercial and critical success throughout the 1970's. If you're curious to hear what an album of jazz standards as sung by Linda Ronstadt would sound like, then here's your chance.
Track listing
01 Falling In Love Again
02 Crazy He Calls Me
03 Keeping Out Of Mischief
04 Lover Man
05 Never Will I Marry
06 I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
07 Someone To Watch Over Me
08 I've Got A Crush On You
09 What'll I Do
10 Goodbye
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