Simple Dreams by Linda Ronstadt (Vinyl record album review)

Record basics

• Album name: Simple Dreams
• Artist name: Linda Ronstadt
• Year: 1977
• Number of discs: one
• Label: Asylum Records
• Collection: Brenner / Gessner
• Buy it on Amazon: $18.29

My review

Level of familiarity before listening

I listened to Different Drum by Linda Ronstadt last month and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. “Simple Dreams” was recorded a few years later, but maybe it will be similar?

What I expected

Country, rock, country-rock, folk-rock.

What it was actually like

“Simple Dreams” had a bunch of covers, and Buddy Holly’s It’s So Easy was by far its best song, and the only one that I really liked at all – I thought Linda Ronstadt did a great job with it. Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison) and Tumbling Dice (Rolling Stones) were both all right, but nothing special. The rest of the record was quite boring.

Grade

3/5: interesting, but not for me