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Absolutely love this song, her voice is incredible ❤

Really beautiful song and woman kudos to Karla Bonoff

One of my favorite songs for hers love the melody.

Linda had the best voice of rock and country music.

If this was the Atlanta concert at the Fox, I was there. Amazing concert. Linda was going thru a “stage fright” stage, where she was afraid of seeing the audience. It was dark. Really dark. Only a spotlight on her, and occasionally on Waddy.

Happy birthday sweet 🎂 Linda your for ever ❤️ 💗 💖 💓 💕 ♥️ absolutely 💯 marvelous ❤️ ✨️ and 😍 ❤️ your 👀 completely simply marvelous ❤️ and beautiful SWEET LINDA ❤

Waddy, is awesome along with Linda’s vocals

Boy, do I miss music like this. I never thought I would be the type to say, "The music was better when I was a kid," but here is proof.

Is that on an album ?

I do love Linda Ronstadt - for all the best and most righteous reasons. Yeah, I confess that I have always recognized her physical attraction (it's a whole aura/being/physical/etc. reality... let's face it, she's desirable). But hey... Linda was/is one of the great musicians of our lives. Thank you Linda.

Queen of Country Rock 😍🥰

Love Linda’s cover of this Karla Bonoff song, Linda’s Hasten Down The Wind album lead me to Karla, who my husband and I love. We saw Karla at a small club I the late 80’s. Have seen Linda many times. I am so sad she can’t sing anymore because of Parkinson Disease. My brother was just diagnosed with early stage Parkinson’s, he & his wife visited us last month and he is slower, but he has lived such a healthy lifestyle, he has never smoked or drank, he ran marathons up until this last year, but he and his wife walk 5 miles a day, still. I am cycling on my stationery bike watching this.

If a performance can kill you this one does.Brings me to pain,sorrow,joy and exileration

Just Linda and a piano. No auto tune either. That is her singing, raw talent. You were right, things have changed, and not for the better.

I miss the way it used to be

Amazing way she brings you in to her heart n soul

Early on, Linda was considered to be a "Country" singer. But not a "twang" was heard :-). If most "Country" was like that then or now, I'd be a fan....

One of my favorites too, and didn't get the attention it deserved. Liked Karla's too.

Someone to lay down beside me aside from being hauntingly beautiful is also a woman singing about her despair. Linda is showing her heartache wanting a man to love her and realizing she will not be loved. A one-night stand with a stranger. What is more desperate? She captures the vacancy of the man next to her the next morning.

Now let mi see can someone else female singers sing Spanish, album canciones de mi padre ,blues, country, rock and roll, and what else too she is 🌟

perhaps her greatest song

Linda, no one can every compare to you. You are the greatest ever. ❤

And that, folks, is how it's done.

National Treasure, many times over. What a voice! Thank you Linda! Go with God in eternity. ✌❤🖖 G

I got to see Linda at Day on the Green at the Oakland Coliseum in the late 70's or early 80's. I will never forget the power, yet softness, in her voice when she sang Blue Bayou. Absolutely stunning, although Lay Down Beside Me is my hands down favorite Linda song, with Long Long Time right behind it. Her voice is heavenly ❤❤❤

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VOICE IN THE WORLD ‼🥰🥰🥰🥰

Just great. ~

Hasten down the wind. My all time favorite album

Wayy lovely

This is way better than her studio version(which was pretty damn good.) A truly great song that deserves to be remembered 46 years later.

The BEST that we have !

Her. Voice. Is. So. Strong❤😂🎉🎉😢😢

She is a gift

Brings me to tears each time I hear this. Karla Bonoff’s lyrics and melody brilliantly delivered by Linda. Love you forever.❤❤❤

Goosebumpy awesome 😮

One of my all time favorite Ronstadt recordings . Her voice sends chills dowm my spine . Love you Linda.

This is a song that demands no restraint - no ladylike pretensions. A bawl in other words. Bonoff and Ronstadt did it well. Not for Dusty though.

Please check out Kurt Brady channel to see Karla sing her own version live in NYC 1989 in hd quality. Sounds almost like Linda’s version just more softly sung. Thanks.czcams.com/video/ZOuQoIKy80w/video.html

Bonoff wrote this powerful song. And she has always performed it effectively. But Ronstadt at her best had the better voice. Larger, richer, with a bigger and broader dynamic range.

I would imagine a piano bar, this song, smoke, sirens haunting lyrics. Few people, large strong drink going. Her eyes meet no one's. If it did, the sadness will live with someone beside you.

Not a huge airplay hit for Linda, but still one of her absolute best recordings! Her voice is absolutely haunting on this beautiful song! Sends chills through me!

My god what voice control she had for such a strong voice

I love Dusty and Linda. Both versions are great. Dusty makes you feel that she is losing again. So much emotion in it.

We love you dusty, always ❤

Dusty, Dusty, Dusty . Love this so much and I return to it over and over. She rules. So missed by us all Dusty.

It’s Linda’s song always. But Dusty gives it that fragile sensitivity like only she could. Brilliant. Some foreshadowing of a future “country” album in the arrangement and her style of singing. She should have recorded it for A Very Fine Love (aka Dusty in Nashville).

OK LOVE HER. ☺❤

I LOVE YOU LINDA RONSTADT FOREVER! 😊

As a yungun, she made me aware that even if you have no terrible experience, the BLUES will come to call eventually. I was always in love with her voice.