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Ronstadt was among the biggest pop stars of the '70s, with three chart-topping albums and a string of top 10 singles. But it wasn't until 1987 that she had the industry support to do her dream project, an album titled "Canciones de Mi Padre" honoring her Mexican heritage with the support of Mariachi Vargas, Mariachi Los Camperos and Mariachi Los Ga...

Doris Day released the first hit version of this song in 1952. Ronstadt's versionappeared as the opening track on "Lush Life," her second collection of jazz standards recorded with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. But there's nothing especially lush about Riddle's arrangement here. It opens with a lone guitarist accompanying Ronstadt's understated voca...

Ronstadt's future trio partner Dolly Parton supplies unmistakably Parton-esque harmonies on this wonderfully sparse and beautiful rendition of a traditional balladabout a woman who vows she never will marry "for the only man I ever loved has gone on the morning train." She'd previously sung this song on Johnny Cash's TV show in 1969, trading vocals...

Years before she managed to convince the suits at Asylum to sign off on "Canciones de Mi Padre," Ronstadt slipped this understated Spanish-language songinto the mix on "Hasten Down the Wind." It's a Mexican folk ballad written by Ronstadt with her father, Gilbert Ronstadt, and former bandmate, Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards, who plays acousti...

This song was written by Lowell George while still a member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and subsequently cut by George's own band, Little Feat, in a stark acoustic arrangement on their debut and again in a full-band arrangement on their second album, "Sailin' Shoes." Ronstadt's version splits the difference between those arrangements with...

One of two Motown classicsRonstadt covered on "Prisoner in Disguise," her take on "Heat Wave" peaked at No. 5 on Billboard's Hot 100, despite it being relegated to the B-side of "Love Is a Rose," a Neil Young song that plays more to the country side of her aesthetic. You can hear the debt to Martha Reeves, whose version topped the R&B charts, in th...

Bonnie Raitt's original recording of this melancholy torch songis an understated treasure. Ronstadt's take is more impassioned. She sings as though she's overwhelmed with what she's feeling, from the relative restraint of her delivery on "I've had bad dreams too many times to think that they don't mean much any more" to the full-on desperation she ...

This heartbreaking cheater's lamentwas originally done in 1967 by the great James Carr, who peaked at No. 10 on Billboard's Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles charts with his gospel-tinged version. Many artists had recorded it, from Percy Sledge to the Flying Burrito Brothers and Aretha Franklin by the time it found its way to Ronstadt's first chart-toppin...

There's a video on YouTube of Ronstadt introducing this song – first recorded by the Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson – as "the first country-rock song I ever learned."Even the version on 1969's "Hand Sown ... Home Grown," with its oddly psychedelic fuzz-guitar lick, is closer to straight-up country, though, than country-rock. And the version on ...