Title: Where'd You Go, Linda?
Review: Linda Ronstadt's Christmas album starts off just fine. She does a wonderful job belting out such standards as The Christmas Song, I'll Be Home for Christmas, and does a charming duet with Rosemary Clooney on White Christmas. Her rendition of Joni Mitchell's River is only so-so, sounding a bit too much like the original to really register.The biggest shock and disappointment is the way the album suddenly switches gears and becomes a series of choir pieces with Linda's voice becoming indistinguishable from everyone else's. It's almost like the musical equivalent of "Where's Waldo?" I assume she's somewhere in there, since her name is on the album, but she may just as well have decided to go home by then.
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