Don't Cry Now

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Don't Cry Now

Studio album by Linda Ronstadt
Released	September 1973
Genre	Rock/Country
Length	35:26
Label	Asylum
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (C+) link
Linda Ronstadt chronology
Linda Ronstadt (1972)	Don't Cry Now (1973)	Heart Like a Wheel (1974)

Don't Cry Now (1973) is Linda Ronstadt's fourth solo LP and the first of her studio releases for Asylum Records, following a relationship with Capitol that resulted in three albums with her former band, the Stone Poneys, and three subsequent solo releases. The tracks on Don't Cry Now were produced individually, some by John Boylan, who produced Ronstadt's preceding eponymous album; some by singer/songwriter J. D. Souther; and, for the first time in what would ultimately be a long and highly successful professional relationship, by British musician Peter Asher, former member of the '60s rock duo Peter & Gordon.

The album contains three songs composed by Souther, one by Randy Newman, a cover of a Neil Young ballad, one originally from the Flying Burrito Brothers, and a version of the Eagles' "Desperado," which the band released earlier that year.

Released in the fall of 1973, Don't Cry Now debuted on the Billboard album chart in late October and peaked at No. 45, the highest in her career thus far. The album had staying power, spending more than a year on the chart (see link). In addition to "Desperado," Asylum released two other singles. The first, "Love Has No Pride," a cover version of a Bonnie Raitt hit, peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 (see link). The other, "Silver Threads and Golden Needles," was the second recording of that song by Ronstadt, a previous version having appeared on her 1969 solo debut, Hand Sown ... Home Grown. A re-make of a 1962 hit by the Springfields, "Silver Threads..." peaked at No. 67 on the Hot 100 (see link) and became the first of more than 20 hits to reach the Hot Country Songs chart, peaking at No. 20 in the spring of 1974 (see link).