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Adieu False Heart (2005)

Where the lyrics of Adieu False Heart take you, and where it was really made.

Linda Ronstadt's final studio album before her 2011 retirement is a duet record with Cajun singer Ann Savoy, recorded in Louisiana.

Key places

Recording at The Plant Studios (2005)

Recording site Record Plant — Discogs lists The Plant Studios in Sausalito, California as one of the recording sites for this album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at Cypress House Studio (2005)

Recording site Cypress House Studio — The album was recorded at Dirk Powell's Cypress House Studio in Louisiana, a studio in the Breaux Bridge area. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at Minutia Studios (2005)

Recording site Nashville — Discogs lists Minutia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee as a recording site for this album, and the album was mixed there. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Adieu False Heart: collaborative album by American singer, songwriter, and producer Linda Ronstadt
• Features Cajun music singer Ann Savoy
• Track listing has 16 tracks, total time 42:12
• Ronstadt and Savoy sing together as The Zozo Sisters
• Mixes Louisiana Cajun sounds, 20th-century popular music, and folk/rock classics

Background

• Ronstadt is a soprano and Savoy is an alto
• They had previously recorded duets for the Savoy-produced album Evangeline Made: A Tribute to Cajun Music
• This was Ronstadt's final studio album before her retirement in 2011
• In 2013 she revealed an affliction with Parkinson's disease, later revealed to be progressive supranuclear palsy, leaving her unable to perform or sing

Recording

• The album was recorded at Dirk Powell's Cypress House Studio in Louisiana
• Local musicians include Chas Justus, Eric Frey, Kevin Wimmer, Sam Broussard, Dirk Powell and Joel Savoy
• Nashville performers include fiddler Stuart Duncan, mandolinist Sam Bush and guitarist Bryan Sutton
• Discogs lists recording at Minutia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, and The Plant Studios in Sausalito, California
• Steve Buckingham produced; Gary Paczosa recorded and mixed
• Mastered at The Mastering Lab in Ojai, California

Cover

• Ann Savoy credited for design concept and all other photography
• Rocky Schenck credited for front and back cover photography

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• Born July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona; American singer across rock, folk, pop, country, and soul.
• In the mid-1960s joined the folk-rock trio the Stone Poneys as lead singer, releasing three albums in 1967–68.
• Solo debut Hand Sown ... Home Grown (1969), described as the first alternative country record by a female recording artist.
• Became the first female "arena class" rock star; top-grossing concert artist of the decade.
• Voted Top Female Pop Singer of the 1970s; "You're No Good" reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Worked with producer Nelson Riddle on the Great American Songbook trilogy What's New, Lush Life, and For Sentimental Reasons.
• Recorded Canciones de Mi Padre (1987), the best-selling non-English-language album in US music history.
• Retired in 2011 after losing the ability to sing; later diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014; Kennedy Center Honoree in 2019.

Formation

• At age 14 formed a folk trio with her brother Peter and sister Gretchen.
• Moved to Los Angeles in 1964 to form a band with Bobby Kimmel.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Received good reviews from critics
• Landed on several year-end Top Ten lists
• Released as Ronstadt's final studio album before her retirement in 2011
• Ronstadt, a soprano, and Savoy, an alto, had previously recorded duets together
• Ronstadt and Savoy sing together as The Zozo Sisters on this album
• The album brings together Louisiana Cajun sounds, 20th-century popular music, and folk/rock classics

Records

• Peaked at number 146 on the Billboard album chart
• Nominated at the 2006 Grammy Awards for Best Traditional Folk Album
• Nominated at the 2006 Grammy Awards for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
• Two Grammy Award nominations in total

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Ronstadt described the collaboration with Savoy as making a record together instead of a quilt, saying they are musicians.
• The album includes an interpretation of The Left Banke's 1966 hit "Walk Away Renée".
• Ronstadt takes lead on Julie Miller's "I Can't Get Over You", with Julie's husband Buddy Miller on guitar.
• Discogs lists The Cypress House on Bayou Tesche in Parks, Louisiana, as a recording location, alongside Minutia in Nashville and The Plant in Sausalito.
• Mixing took place at Minutia, while mastering took place at The Mastering Lab in Ojai, California.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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