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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 November 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
"Will Never Marry" has become one of my anthems.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 November 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
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 Permalinkme too― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, August 7, 2012 7:48 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
i love her spanish albums
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
She played Sun City!!
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 10 November 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
classic Simpsons/Linda R reference for the nerds:http://www.technologytell.com/gaming/files/2013/12/geeky-cross-stitch-senor-plow1.jpg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/linda-ronstadt-opens-up-about-losing-her-voice-and-living-with-parkinsons-1203126148/
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
<3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
Great performance here, and I'd never heard the story she tells at the beginning about Lowell George.
https://youtu.be/kMP8JsV7wbg
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 18 May 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
Lots of good songs imo
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
Not counting Stone Poneys? "Different Drum" is of course beyond great.
― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
This one may delight you.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
:)
― dorsalstop, Thursday, 13 June 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
I ain’t saying you ain’t pretty
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 June 2019 00:18 (four years ago) link
Aw man, I really love her "Back in the USA." And I'm not so hot on "Tumbling Dice."
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 13 June 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
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".
― bendy, Thursday, 13 June 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
"Different Drum" is an all-time favorite.
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 15 June 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
A really good New Yorker interview.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 1 September 2019 12:07 (four years ago) link
That was great, thanks!
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 September 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
Posted this recently on another thread because of the B-Bender:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FiKHaSRMeg
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 September 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
Great interview! Yeah, Ronstadt, all things considered, sounds like she has it all figured out.
(B-bender derail: I saw Marty Stuart play not long ago, and I guess he is the current owner of Clarence White's b-bender, and he plays it every night. I think he also owns and uses one of Pops Staples' guitars. I think it's super cool when musicians have a piece of history and continue to use it the way it was intended. Iirc Neil Young owns and plays Hank Williams' guitar all the time.)
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 September 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
(Yeah, that came up on a Byrds thread and another guitar thread. Apparently he has so much memorabilia that he has to sell off some of it once in a while and there is a shop somebody told me about, can't remember where, that ends up with a lot of it)
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 September 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
Norman's Rare Guitars?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 September 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Maybe. Think it was in California. Also think it wasn’t just guitars, more like cowboy boots and Nudie suits, etc.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 September 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
I just watched Marty tell the story of how he came by Clarence's B-bender Tele not long ago: http://youtu.be/r8H08Xs_w8A
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 1 September 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Yeah, discussion was here and then further down Old School Guitar Pickin' And Strummin' Sick Chops YouTube ThreadClarence had the first B-Bender, guy in the Linda Ronstadt video and all over some of her records, Bob Warford, had the second.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 September 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
Walking down the road t'other day, what should come into my head but LR's ace version of "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," followed by Kinky Friedman's cover of "My Shit's Fucked Up": kind of a natural succession, as nature goes (both r Zevon songs, decades apart). What else did she do by Zevon, besides "Rosalita"?
Re Marty and well-deployed vintage guitars etc, online relcis of this tour might be worth looking for---from Rolling Country 2018:
roger mcguinn, chris hillman and marty stuart & his fabulous superlatives, sweetheart of the rodeo full album show, los angeles, tuesday night. opening night of a short-ish tour. it was ragged, loose, occasionally awkward and more than occasionally great. they did one set of truncated versions of hits and deep cuts, and then the sweetheart of the rodeo set, played in full but out of order. i got the sense that stuart and the superlatives rehearsed thoroughly on their own and mcguinn and hillman maybe not so much. they missed cues left and right, were looking down frequently for chords and lyrics, and while hillman's voice was in good form, mcguinn was having a little trouble cutting through. but their instincts for harmony are still dead-on, and stuart fit right into that. i felt like i was watching a band still working out its sound, and as a result, when something gelled, when they hit a sweet spot, it was magical. like watching a band discover itself in real time. and that second set was way better than the first. it felt like having a piece of my own dna read back to me. maybe they felt the same.
encore: two byrds classics and three tom petty classics. i was wondering if maybe they would be able to coax david crosby (who i assume still lives here though i have no idea) onto the stage for a song or two. instead we got mike campbell, who joined for "american girl" -- after which they kicked him off and, strangely, played more petty songs without him. marty stuart did a bluegrassy take on "runnin' down a dream" (thumbs up) and hillman did a fairly faithful "wildflowers," which apparently petty produced for him for an album he put out last year.
they also told some stories. they're not particularly good storytellers. damn those harmonies though.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, July 25, 2018 9:08 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Was already hoping for an album from that tour, even more while reading your dispatch. Marty and His FS have the drive and expertise to keep those geezers functioning onstage for as long as possible. -dow
― dow, Sunday, 1 September 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
Also I still need to check out LR's contributions to Escalator Over The Hill and Songs From Liquid Days.
― dow, Sunday, 1 September 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
I think you meant "Carmelita". Ronstadt also did "Mohammed's Radio" and "Hasten Down The Wind".
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 September 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
I skimmed that New Yorker interview but probably missed mention of the CNN documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDMYAsu5PvI
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
it's mentioned in therealso my childhood bff sent me a link to the trailer bc we were talking about the magic of linda ronstadt recently <3
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Place with vintage clothing and memorabilia from Marty Stuart was Pioneer House in Knoxville: https://www.pioneer-house.com/events/2016/11/4/the-marty-stuart-collection
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 September 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
This is an excellent cover not often mentioned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc128G3u61M
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
The new documentary is fantastic, it gave me chills over and over again. To hear her performing those songs on a big screen up close is an emotional experience.
Nothing groundbreaking about the form of it, but there doesn't seem to be a wasted moment in the whole 95 minutes.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
The clips in the trailer were marvelous.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
The audience applauded at the end, which can be a corny move but in this case felt right
― Josefa, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
loved this documentary
― cheese canopy (map), Monday, 23 September 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
PBS is showing that unearthed '80 cable show as a pledge programming tonight. Her version of "Lies" is fun.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 June 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
Knickerbockers or Stones?
― Ernani and the Professor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
The Former.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 June 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IaOn4NvrSc
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 June 2020 03:01 (three years ago) link
Apparently a studio version was issued as a single in '82
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywY_ppvyj-Y
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 June 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link
Thanks. Yeah, saw that video. Bugging me that I can’t ID that Mick Fleetwood-looking drummer.
― Ernani and the Professor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2020 03:07 (three years ago) link
Linda really getting her inner-Debbie Harry on in the latter vid.
Kind of makes you wish there was someone in Ronstadt's crew had slipped her some Dwight Twilley or Go-Gos tapes for prospective covers.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 June 2020 03:12 (three years ago) link
Russ Kunkel, I guess.
― Ernani and the Professor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah, remembering the long ago battle between John Rockwell and Elvis Costello, when I wouldn’t have wanted to hear her versions of such songs, but have since changed my tune.
― Ernani and the Professor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
AMG says it's Russ Kunkel
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 June 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
Never knew what he looked like. Guess he was usually hiding behind Leland Sklar’s beard.
― Ernani and the Professor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
Now they both hide behind Lyle Lovett's rooster coif.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 June 2020 03:29 (three years ago) link
Lol
― Ernani and the Professor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link