Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams (1977)

Genre: Country Rock
Released: September, 1977

Label: Asylum

Highest Billboard Chart Position: #1 (5 weeks)

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Personnel:

Linda Ronstadt - acoustic guitar, vocals and arranger
Waddy Wachtel - guitar
Ed Black - guitar, steel guitar
Kenny Edwards - guitar, bass
Danny Kortchmar, Richard Bowden, Pete Wade, Al Viola - guitar
David Lindley - fiddle
Jim Fadden - harmonica
Jim Gordon, Nino Tempo - saxophone
Mac Johnson, Darrel Leonard - trumpet
Spooner Oldham - piano
John Boylen - electric piano
Kenny Anderson, Mike Bowden - bass
Micky McGee, Dennis St. John, Andrew Gold, David Kemper - drums
Andrew Gold, John David Souther, Chris Ethridge, Waddy Wachtel, Bernie Leadon, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Russ Kunkel, Clydie King, Herb Pedersen - background vocals
Dolly Parton - harmony vocals on "I Never Will Marry"

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Track List:

1. It's So Easy (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) - 2:27
2. Carmelita (Warren Zevon) - 3:07
3. Simple Man, Simple Dream (J.D. Souther) - 3:12
4. Sorrow Lives Here (Eric Kaz) - 2:57
5. I Never Will Marry (Traditional) - 3:12
6. Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson) - 3:57
7. Poor Poor Pitiful Me (Warren Zevon) - 3:42
8. Maybe I'm Right (Waddy Wachtel) - 3:05
9. Tumbling Dice (Keith Richards, Mick Jagger) - 3:05
10. Old Paint (Traditional) - 3:05

Length
31:49

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Classic!

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Simple Dreams