Hasten Down The Wind

A great NZ pressing very smart vinyl with a good cover showing minor shelf wear. Incudes lyric sheet.

. Ronstadt was the first female artist in history to accomplish this feat.^[6] The album earned her a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female in early 1977, her second of a record 11 Grammys. It represented a slight departure from 1974's Heart Like a Wheel and 1975's Prisoner in Disguise 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 from critics and the general public alike.

The album showcased songs from artists such as Warren Zevon ("Hasten Down the Wind") and Karla Bonoff ("Someone to Lay Down Beside Me"); both of whom would soon be making a name for themselves in the singer-songwriter world. A reworking of the late Patsy Cline's classic "Crazy" was a Top 10 Country hit for Ronstadt in early 1977.

Her third album to go platinum, Hasten Down the Wind spent several weeks in the top three of the Billboard album charts. It was also the second of four #1 Country albums for her. Ronstadt's subsequent album was 1977's Simple Dreams, one of her best-selling ever.