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Hasten Down the Wind
1976 studio album by Linda Ronstadt
Hasten Down the Wind
Hasten Down the Wind is the seventh studio album by American singer Linda Ronstadt, released by Asylum Records on August 9, 1976. Becoming her third straight million-selling album, Ronstadt was the first female artist to accomplish this feat. A critical and commercial success, Hasten garnered her second Grammy Award for Pop Vocal Performance, Female at the 19th Grammy Awards ceremony (1977). It represented a slight departure from her previous albums Heart Like a Wheel (1974) and Prisoner in Disguise (1975) in that she chose to showcase new songwriters over the traditional country rock sound she had been producing up to that point. A more serious and poignant album than its predecessors, it won critical acclaim. Hasten Down the Wind contained two major hit singles: Ronstadt's covers of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day" (US Pop #11, Country #27) and her reworking of the late Patsy Cline's 1961 hit, "Crazy", reaching #6 on the US Country chart in early 1977. The album showcased songs from...
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