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==== Collaborations with Peter Asher ==== {{quote box | width=25% | align=right | quote=In general when you fall in love with an artist and their music, the plan is a fairly simple one. .. get people to go and see them, and make a record that you think properly presents their music to the public and some of which you can get on the radio. | source=β[[Peter Asher]], on collaborating with Ronstadt<ref name="Goldmine589" />}} Ronstadt began her fourth solo album, ''[[Don't Cry Now]]'', in 1973, with Boylan (who had negotiated her contract with [[Asylum Records]]) and [[JD Souther|John David "JD" Souther]] producing most of the album's tracks. But needing someone willing to work with her as an equal, Ronstadt asked [[Peter Asher]], who came highly recommended to her by [[James Taylor]]'s sister [[Kate Taylor]], to help produce two of them: "Sail Away" and "I Believe in You".<ref name="producer3" /> The album featured Ronstadt's first country hit, "[[Silver Threads and Golden Needles]]", which she had first recorded on ''Hand Sown ... Home Grown''{{snds}}this time hitting the Country Top 20. With the release of ''Don't Cry Now'', Ronstadt took on her biggest gig to date as the opening act on Neil Young's ''Time Fades Away'' tour, playing for larger crowds than ever before. Backstage at a concert in Texas, [[Chris Hillman]] introduced her to [[Emmylou Harris]], telling them, "You two could be good friends,"<ref name="goldmine">{{Cite web |date=August 2, 1996 |title=And then there were two ... Linda Ronstadt talks about her friend Emmylou Harris, and about the unhappy end of the ''Trio'' project |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intgm.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927184553/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intgm.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |access-date=May 11, 2007 |website=[[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]}}</ref> which soon occurred, resulting in frequent collaborations over the following years. Meanwhile, the album became Ronstadt's most successful up to that time, selling 300,000 copies by the end of 1974.<ref name="producer3">{{Cite book |last=Fong-Torres |first=Ben |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igEvYlgm4HIC&pg=PA209 |title=Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock & Roll |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-87930-590-1 |pages=209β220 |chapter=Linda Ronstadt, Heartbreak on Wheels (Rolling Stone, March 27, 1975) |publisher=Hal Leonard |access-date=November 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111143202/http://books.google.com/books?id=igEvYlgm4HIC&pg=PA209 |archive-date=January 11, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> Asher turned out to be more collaborative, and more on the same page with her musically, than any producer she had worked with previously.<ref name="MIXMag2000">{{Cite web |last=Daley |first=Dan |date=December 1, 2000 |title=Linda Ronstadt |url=http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_linda_ronstadt/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051113092247/http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_linda_ronstadt/index.html |archive-date=November 13, 2005 |access-date=May 7, 2007 |website=[[Mix (magazine)|Mix]]}}http://www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/linda-ronstadt/365380 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304234527/http://www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/linda-ronstadt/365380 |date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> Ronstadt's professional relationship with Asher allowed her to take command and effectively delegate responsibilities in the recording studio.<ref name="producer3" /> Although hesitant at first to work with her because of her reputation for being a "woman of strong opinions (who) knew what she wanted to do (with her career)", he nonetheless agreed to become her full-time producer<ref name="negativequalities">{{Cite web |last=Ryder |first=Caroline |date=October 2007 |title=Peter Asher Interview |url=http://swindlemagazine.com/issueicons/peter-asher/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025181433/http://swindlemagazine.com/issueicons/peter-asher/ |archive-date=October 25, 2007 |access-date=November 25, 2012 |website=[[Swindle (magazine)|Swindle]]}}</ref> and remained in that role through the late 1980s. Asher attributed the long-term success of his working relationship with Ronstadt to the fact that he was the first person to manage and produce her with whom there was a solely professional relationship. "It must be a lot harder to have objective conversations about someone's career when it's someone you sleep with," he said.<ref name="producer3" /> Asher executive-produced a tribute CD called ''[[Listen to Me: Buddy Holly]]'', released on September 6, 2011, on which Ronstadt's 1976 version of [[Buddy Holly]]'s "[[That'll Be The Day]]" appears among newly recorded versions of Holly's songs by various artists.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 26, 2011 |title=Listen To Me: Buddy Holly Tribute CD Out Sept. 6th |url=http://hangout.altsounds.com/news/132169-listen-buddy-holly-tribute-cd-sept-6th.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003125925/http://hangout.altsounds.com/news/132169-listen-buddy-holly-tribute-cd-sept-6th.html |archive-date=October 3, 2012 |access-date=July 26, 2011 |publisher=AltSounds.com}}</ref>
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