Playboy After Dark! [yes really!] | LINDA RONSTADT : Walkin’ Down The Line

 Think we’ve had this before but I don’t care it’s SATURDAY! 

I love what Linda does here and the gritty edge to her voice is a wonder . . . . . . . barefoot she blows them all away here . . . . .have a great weekekend everyone!

On the sixteenth of this month in 1970, LINDA RONSTADT was a guest on the late Hugh Hefner's 'Playboy After Dark' (Apr 16, 1970)

NOTE: The clip here is Linda performing Bob Dylan's WALKIN' DOWN THE LINE. The song was first recorded by Dylan in November 1962 for Broadside magazine. The lyrics recount the troubles of a hobo walking down the railroad tracks. 

From 1969-70, Hugh Hefner hosted a TV show called Playboy After Dark, which basically furnished a penthouse apartment with attractive young people while Hef hung out with various cultural luminaries, shooting the breeze with Sonny & Cher or James Brown. 

On one episode, a shy-looking 23-year-old Linda Ronstadt sang Bob Dylan’s “Walkin’ Down the Line,” and it’s a knockout performance — if you can stop yourself from rolling your eyes at Hef’s burgundy velvet tux and his pipe-smoking, anyway.

Bob Dylan Meets President Jimmy Carter 1974

Bob Dylan visits Governor Jimmy Carter at the Governor's Mansion, Atlanta, Georgia, 1974. 📸: Barry Feinstein

I love Bob’s response to this. It’s called honourable, loyal and true I believe . . . . . . . . . . 

In the March ’78 Playboy interview, Dylan was asked by Ron Rosenbaum what he thought of Carter claiming to be his friend. 

Dylan’s response was splendid. “I am his friend,” he answered, saying he thought “Carter’s heart was in the right place.” 

When asked if he felt Carter was using him by inviting him to the Governor’s Mansion that night, he replied, 

“No, I believe that he was a decent, untainted man and he just wanted to check me out.”