Linda Ronstadt - Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (1980)

"Greatest Hits, Volume 2" is a hits compilation album from American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. It was released in 1980 on Asylum Records. The disc covers mostly Ronstadt's heavier rocking songs.
The latter part of the '70s found Ronstadt roughing up her image a bit, covering songs by the Rolling Stones and Warren Zevon and eventually taking inspiration from the burgeoning punk and new-wave scenes. All of this was a long way away from the laid-back country-rock sound that established her as one of the top female artists of the day. On the material collected here, Ronstadt remains as strong a singles artist as ever. Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 contains winners such as "It's So Easy," "Blue Bayou," and the Chuck Berry romp "Living in the U.S.A.," as well as edgier material such as the Stones' "Tumbling Dice" and Zevon's "Poor Poor Pitiful Me." This album give us many of Linda's formidable hits, with a definitive play list that anyone would want to have to ensure an accurate representation of her volumes of work, from dozens of hit albums recorded and released over more than a decade of popular work. Nobody articulates the southern California folk rock style as well or as consistently as Linda Ronstadt, the little woman with the big, big voice.

Track List:

01. "It's So Easy" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 2:26
02. "I Can't Let Go" (Chip Taylor, Al Gorgoni) – 2:43
03. "Hurt So Bad" (Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Wilding, Bobby Hart) – 3:12
04. "Blue Bayou" (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson) – 3:54
05. "How Do I Make You" (Billy Steinberg) – 2:21
06. "Back in the U.S.A." (Chuck Berry) – 2:59
07. "Ooo Baby Baby" (William "Smokey" Robinson, Warren Moore) – 3:18
08. "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (Warren Zevon) – 3:41
09. "Tumbling Dice" (Keith Richards, Mick Jagger) – 3:05
10. "Just One Look" (Gregory Carroll, Doris Payne) – 3:15
11. "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me" (Karla Bonoff) – 3:58

Released: 1980
Recorded: 1977-1980
Genre: Pop, Country Rock
Label: Asylum
Length: 34:52
Producer: Peter Asher

Personnel:
Linda Ronstadt - vocals
Dan Dugmore - acoustic, electric & steel guitars
Waddy Wachtel - electric & slide guitar, background vocals
Mark Goldenberg - guitar, electric guitar, background vocals
Bob Glaub - bass
Charles Veal - violin
Dennis Karmazyn - cello
David Sanborn - saxophone
Danny Kortchmar - guitar, electric guitar
Don Grolnick - acoustic, electric piano, clavinet, keyboards
Andrew Gold - piano, clavinet
Bill Payne - keyboards
Steve Forman - marimba, percussion
Kenny Edwards - bass, mandolin, background vocals
Russ Kunkel, Michael Botts - drums
Rick Marotta - drums, syn-drums, cowbell
Peter Asher - tambourine, maracas, cowbell, background vocals
Richard Wachtel - vocals, guitar
Nicolette Larson, Don Henley, Karla Bonoff, Wendy Waldman, Pat Henderson, Sherlie Matthews, Rosemary Butler, James Gilstrap, John Lehman, Larry Hagler - background vocals