Linda Ronstadt - Western Wall: The Tuscon Sessions with Emmylou Harris

Western Wall: The Tuscon Sessions isn't country. It isn't rock or folk or pop. In fact, it isn't anything I've heard before. But it's delightfully good because two of pop and country's best singers toss aside all formulas and just have fun making good music.

Linda Ronstadt's voice is great as ever in her 53rd year. Emmylou Harris, 52, always had a fragile voice, and it's used just right on this 13-song CD. The recording was done under the production of Glyn Johns, who worked with the two women and Dolly Parton on the Trio II album. But this new one was recorded in a makeshift studio in Tucson's Arizona Inn, and for authenticity.

There's also a beautiful interpretation of Bruce Springsteen's Across the Border as Neil Young adds harmonica and joins the women on harmony. ~ More Reviews at Emmylou.net

Track Listing :

• Loving The Highway Man
• Raise The Dead
• For A Dancer
• Western Wall
• 1917
• He Was Mine
• Sweet Spot
• Sisters Of Mercy
• Falling Down
• Valerie
• This Is To Mother You
• All I Left Behind
• Across The Border