Linda Ronstadt - Classic or Dud?

big NYT profile in fall '13 previewing her memoir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srpwqf2MWAw

"quid/ag"?

also, god love linda ronstadt, but that warren zevon cover makes pretty plain why people accused her of being the pat boone of the long-hair set.

which one? I love "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" but am eh on "Carmelita."

yet I love her "Tumbling Dice."

lol @ her tumbling dice cover, that's quintessential mush-mouthed mick but ronstadt is such an /enunciator/

but it's not a bad cover nonetheless

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lalo90aXXq1qd0imf.jpg

Jonathan Schwarz last weekend played her Spanish version of "Blue Bayou," which I don't think I'd ever heard. Gorgeous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TnR4IsoC_0

(Schwartz, I mean)

Damn. This is gorgeous.

Wow

Senõr Plow to thread :)

benefit for Michael J. Fox Foundation:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7534407/linda-ronstadt-tribute-concert

What a career: https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/they-say-that-loves-a-gentle-thing-the-best-of-linda-ronstadt/

loving linda these days
her outfit is so cool + she (always) sounds great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd2_LKoTYKw

also let's hear it for rhyming gender & blender

classic

Linda is magic

It's so easy
It's so easy
It's so easy

iiiiiiiiiiiiive been cheateeed

my father loved linda ronstadt and i always have too. there’s a small windy intersection by an ugly little bridge near our childhood house that always makes me think of ‘blue bayou’ (and hearing the song always makes me see the intersection, which could not be less bayou-like.) i suppose we must have been singing it in the car driving through there once. my friend has moved to that part of town and a couple of weeks ago i drove over to visit her and the memory turned up as usual, it’s a fixture.

also let's hear it for rhyming gender & blender

Well, Warren Zevon.

take it to the Zevon thread buddy, this is LindaTown

lol yes

the way she rhymes them is all her

ps estela whenever i hear blue bayou i think of watching her sing it on the muppet show, fresh out of the bath sitting in front of the heater so my hair would be dry before bedtime <3

<3 that is darling

Classic!

Three things I love:

1. Her first solo record, "Dolphins," written by Fred Neil ("Everybody's Talkin'")

2. "Up to My Neck in High Muddy Water," Stone Poneys single from 1968

3. "Silver Threads and Golden Needles," single from 1973, previously recorded by many other people including the Springfields (UK) and the Cowsills but hers is the best

VG & estela otm -- Linda gamely makes those corny lyrics sound charming
I can't stop singing "WoooooooOOOHHHHooooe is me"

I think interpretation is something of a lost art. Too many singers gravitate toward "standards" but I wish they just cherrypicked their favorite stuff and made something fresh out of it, like LR. Like, there's a difference between a "covers album" and singers doing special with songs by other people, I think.

"Will Never Marry" has become one of my anthems.

when her voice gets loud on Bayou I get all teary and goosebumpy

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 7, 2012 7:07 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, August 7, 2012 7:48 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still true.

i love her spanish albums

She played Sun City!!

classic Simpsons/Linda R reference for the nerds:

http://www.technologytell.com/gaming/files/2013/12/geeky-cross-stitch-senor-plow1.jpg

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/linda-ronstadt-opens-up-about-losing-her-voice-and-living-with-parkinsons-1203126148/

<3

Great performance here, and I'd never heard the story she tells at the beginning about Lowell George.

https://youtu.be/kMP8JsV7wbg

Lots of good songs imo

Not counting Stone Poneys? "Different Drum" is of course beyond great.

This one may delight you.

:)

I ain’t saying you ain’t pretty

Aw man, I really love her "Back in the USA." And I'm not so hot on "Tumbling Dice."

I spent my teens eyerolling at my parents Ronstadt obsession, but eventually realized my affection for Hazelewood's ballad productions was rooted in the constant exposure to "Long Long Time".

"Different Drum" is an all-time favorite.

A really good New Yorker interview.

That was great, thanks!

Posted this recently on another thread because of the B-Bender:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FiKHaSRMeg