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Hasten Down the Wind is the seventh studio album by American singer Linda Ronstadt, released by Capitol on August 9, 1976. Becoming her third straight million-selling album, Ronstadt was the first female artist to accomplish this feat. A critical and commercial success, Hasten garnered her second Grammy Award for Pop Vocal Performance, Female at the 19th Grammy Awards ceremony. It represented a slight departure from her previous albums Heart Like a Wheel and 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. Hasten Down the Wind contained two major hit singles: Ronstadt's covers of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day" and her reworking of the late Patsy Cline's 1961 hit, "Crazy", reaching #6 on the US Country chart in early 1977. The album showcased songs from artists such as Warren Zevon and Karla Bonoff, both of whom would soon be making a name for themselves in the singer-songwriter world. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasten_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
