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Linda Ronstadt: 'I Don’t Like Any of my Albums'
The Guardian ^ | Laura Barton

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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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Does she sing phonetically? This interview makes it sound like she doesn’t speak Spanish. She says one of the only two apps she has on her phone is one for learning Spanish.


81 posted on 10/16/2017 3:58:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: stylin19a
Then the interview turns into Trump bashing

What else do you expect from moonbeam's beard? Hard to give respect to someone who helps a leftist queer politician appear straight to fool the voters so he could screw over California the first time, at least moonbeam married his beard for the second run.

82 posted on 10/16/2017 4:00:10 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: blam

That was the #1 song the week I was born.


83 posted on 10/16/2017 4:08:30 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

What do you mean break up song? You use it to break up with someone, or you listen to it after a breakup?


84 posted on 10/16/2017 4:08:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: doorgunner69
We all liked the Stone Poneys while I was overseas.

I've kept all her vinyl records, and have reel-to-reel tapes saved off ~1971 TV's "Good Time Hour" when she appeared with Glenn Campbell.

When I need to reflect on what a great voice she had, I get them out. "Different Drummer" accompanied a tough breakup.

85 posted on 10/16/2017 4:09:45 PM PDT by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
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To: Jim 0216
I worked a concert of hers in Ames, Iowa. Part of the stage crew. Saw her come off the platform after the show, and she was so drained they had to give her oxygen. But sweaty from the lights and pale as bleached moonlight, she was still a goddess.

Not like today ...

86 posted on 10/16/2017 4:11:57 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Bryanw92

Lush Life and For Sentimental Reasons are magnificent records.

The Nelson Riddle Orchestra played perfectly and Linda sang beautifully.

They’re not Rock-n-Roll records but covers of classics from the 1930’s and 40’s


87 posted on 10/16/2017 4:13:32 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

“That song. Still hurts after all these years.”

It’s a fantastic “lost love” song, touching in kind of the same way as “All I Know” by Art Garfunkel.


88 posted on 10/16/2017 4:16:23 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: amihow

Ayyyy yii yii yiiii can’t get no satisfaction.


89 posted on 10/16/2017 4:18:44 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: miss marmelstein

What a thing to ask. Are you a Pharisee?


90 posted on 10/16/2017 4:19:59 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Dr. Thorne
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91 posted on 10/16/2017 4:21:26 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Does so; doorgunner69
Oh yes...One of those vinyl records has a brief children's melody squeezed onto a track.

"[Midnight]'s the only bronc I could not ride. Now they tell me Midnight's blind. He only rides the children for a dime."

Linda sings this to bring tears! So sad...

92 posted on 10/16/2017 4:21:43 PM PDT by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
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To: tumblindice
Stuff like that happens when people get old.

You will not be an exception.

93 posted on 10/16/2017 4:26:09 PM PDT by x
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To: Fair Paul

“Someone to Lay Down Beside” is such a great scorcher of a song. She does it amazing justice.


94 posted on 10/16/2017 4:28:49 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: x

Take care of yourself and don’t slop at the trough and you won’t be a disgusting fat body.
I’m in better shape in my 60s than I was in my 40s.
So I suppose I am an exception, and you can speak for yourself. But not me.


95 posted on 10/16/2017 4:29:06 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: nickcarraway
Linda had a similar interview in 2013:

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/10/linda-ronstadt-parkinsons-listening-singing

96 posted on 10/16/2017 4:32:09 PM PDT by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
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To: Drew68
We were all better looking 40 years ago.

Ain't that the truth.

97 posted on 10/16/2017 4:35:04 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: nickcarraway

One of the most fantastic voices ever...


98 posted on 10/16/2017 4:40:58 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Bryanw92

I really liked the stuff she did with Nelson Riddle.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linda+ronstadt+nelson+riddle+orchestra+youtube&atb=v79-5__&ia=videos


99 posted on 10/16/2017 4:42:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
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To: apocalypto
I liked her “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.”

That was Joan Baez. Linda Ronstadt never covered it.

100 posted on 10/16/2017 4:43:40 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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