It is actually a Willie Nelson song, written early when he was mostly a drunk DJ trying to sell songs. Patsy Cline's husband talked her into picking it up to record. Linda Ronstadt released it well over a decade later, when it had dropped out of popularity after being a standard in country music in the 60s.
Ronstadt was remarkably good at noticing songs like that, ones that should be brought back for a second or third independent life. As she could sing many styles, she covered many artists.
Thank you. I put on my headphones for this. (I don't have speakers hooked up to my desktop.)
ReplyDeleteShe does a great torch song or folk ballad. I'm less fond of her hard-rock style, kind of thin and unpersuasive.
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