Posted on 10/16/2017 2:26:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hi, Linda. It has been 40 years since the release of your hugely successful album Simple Dreams (1). Do you have happy memories of it?
Well, I don’t ever listen to my stuff once I’ve finished it, and I don’t really know what’s on it. I’m not saying it’s a bad record, I’m just saying I can’t remember it. When I listen to all my old stuff, I tend to be horrified.
What do you feel is horrifying about your old stuff?
I feel as if I really started learning how to sing in around 1980. I sang in an operetta on Broadway (2) and I sang American standards – the material just allowed me to extend my range.
So you don’t have a favourite out of the 28 studio albums you have recorded?
I don’t like any of them, but there are moments on some records that I like. The one with Nelson Riddle; the Trio records (3) I did with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris. I made a record with Ann Savoy, the Cajun singer, after I got Parkinson’s disease, and I could barely sing. I had to whisper everything, but that was a really successful record for us – artistically successful (4).
You were diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2012. How has it felt to have the thing that defined you taken away?
Singing was certainly a part of my identity, but it was never the whole thing. It was something I did, but I always felt defined more by where I was from, who my parents were, who my family were and how I interacted with them. Being a successful singer was only a fraction of it.
‘I could call up Emmylou Harris and we would sing together over the phone.’
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Make no mistake. Linda has a great voice.
Having said that....Linda covered many of Karla Bonoff’s musical creations.
Listen to side-by-sides of her and Linda, and you’ll find something special in Karla. Awesome passion in her own music.
You try keeping fit and trim when you have Parkinson’s. One of the most debilitating diseases on the planet.
You know of what you speak! A great album (Faithless Love)!
It’s sad. I didn’t know that. I hope she receives Jesus if she hasn’t yet.
Her work with Riddle is an all-time classic.
“She was one hell of a Mariachi singer for many years — arguably one of the best ever.”
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Too me that would be the equivalent of being the best brain surgeon in all of Dogpatch.
The girl’s “we’re breaking up” song
Great talent in the late 60s & early 70s. Her late 70s pop and salsa stuff, not so much.
>>I liked her singing in Spanish. As as a person, not so much.<<
I knew her back in the 1978. My roommate and I helped rescue her Malibu home from the Big Winter Tides that tore up the Colony. For a while we were welcome to come by and visit, which we did once a week or so for a few months, but then she left Malibu and we never heard from here again.
She was sweet, but REALLY dippy. She couldn’t really carry on much of a conversation but was funny.
Written by Mike Nesmith. Tho, for a better break up LR breakup song I’d vote for “Long, Long Time”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0qm8nq8RcA
“Faithless Love” (a GREAT song) written by the great JD Souther who was Linda’s live-in partner for quite some time.
JD’s version is far better than Linda’s.
Either way it's all good.
Linda did a prison concert in the mid-70s and sang “You’re No Good” to the convicts. Had to laugh at that.
Remember Love is a Rose?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2r8cAyvEo
You're No Good--Dee Dee Warwick (1963)
Definitely got that hateful old democrat bitch look to her now.
Too me that would be the equivalent of being the best brain surgeon in all of Dogpatch.
Somewhere in my stacks of LPs I have a Bonoff album. Someday I may get a turntable set up again.
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