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Hasten Down The Wind is a 1976 album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt and was Ronstadt’s third straight million-selling album. Ronstadt was the first female artist in history to accomplish this feat. The album earned Ronstadt a Grammy for “Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female” in 1977, her second of 10 Grammy Awards. It represented a slight departure from 1974’s Heart Like A Wheel and 1975’s Prisoner In Disguise in that she chose to showcase new songwriters over the traditional Country Rock sound she had been producing up to that point. A more serious and poignant album than its predecessors, it won critical acclaim from critics and the general public alike. The album showcased songs from artists such as Warren Zevon (“Hasten Down The Wind”) and Karla Bonoff... Read on...