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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: Peter W. Kessler

You got that right. She hates conservatives last time I recall her having some stupid thing to say about Bush and the Iraq War. Then again, when I hear “Somewhere Out there” from American Tail which I watched as a kid, it brings back memories.


21 posted on 10/16/2017 2:37:11 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: nickcarraway

And Clint Eastwood doesn’t like his movies. Maybe I’ll go through the Dirty Harry series!


22 posted on 10/16/2017 2:37:20 PM PDT by ChessExpert (NAFTA - Not A Free Trade Agreement)
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To: nickcarraway
I didn't either.

But that was when I thought I moved to the beat of a different drummer.

Now that I know that everybody hates them, maybe it's time to rethink things.

23 posted on 10/16/2017 2:38:37 PM PDT by x
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To: Bryanw92

>>I have never heard anything she sang after 1979.<<

She was one hell of a Mariachi singer for many years — arguably one of the best ever.

Really good Mariachi is a lot of fun to listen to — a buffet for the ears.

Crappy mariachi (like what you get in restaurants and strolling bands in Mexico) is an affront on the ears.


24 posted on 10/16/2017 2:39:04 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (ALL records destroyed/faked, books rewritten, statues renamed, dates altered and more.../1984)
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To: Jolla; Eddie01

She has Parkinson’s.
She can’t sing any more..................


25 posted on 10/16/2017 2:39:11 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: nickcarraway

Sad. She seems to be in a really blue funk. If she doesn’t know Jesus, I pray she will.

“Heart Like Wheel” has some of the best arrangements with Andrew Gold almost a one-man-band backing her up superbly. The arrangements are awesome.


26 posted on 10/16/2017 2:39:39 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Red Badger

I saw her in Detroit on the river front a few years back.

My bad.


27 posted on 10/16/2017 2:40:20 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Dr. Thorne

Shows how cute girls turn so unattractive with such weight gain. Sad.


28 posted on 10/16/2017 2:40:44 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: nickcarraway

29 posted on 10/16/2017 2:42:40 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jolla

I’m sure he meant back in the days when she was touring. Since she has Parkinson’s she can barely talk let alone sing.


30 posted on 10/16/2017 2:44:21 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Dr. Thorne
Zamboini! What a diffence.

BEFORE:

AFTER:


31 posted on 10/16/2017 2:44:46 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: nickcarraway

We all liked the Stone Poneys while I was overseas.


32 posted on 10/16/2017 2:46:23 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: nickcarraway

Her autobiography (which she actually wrote entirely by herself) tells a little different story, but then ones feelings can certainly change over time, especially when beset by a serious disease and probably carrying a heavy burden.

Her politics stink and yet until fairly recently she practiced the art of “shut up and sing”, and as a result built up a base of fans from all political stripes. It really doesn’t matter if the artist likes their own work or not, if they were just doing it for self-satisfaction they never would have released anything to the public. And millions of people do.


33 posted on 10/16/2017 2:47:06 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: nickcarraway

I liked her “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.”


34 posted on 10/16/2017 2:47:15 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Jim 0216

oh my God, take it back. You just shattered my childhood memories...And I though Carrie Fisher hadn’t aged well.


35 posted on 10/16/2017 2:48:06 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: freedumb2003

I liked her singing in Spanish. As as a person, not so much.


36 posted on 10/16/2017 2:48:32 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Jim 0216

Seems to me that the Stones’ “Beast of Burden” was Jagger’s etude to her. That’s what I heard back in the day...


37 posted on 10/16/2017 2:50:45 PM PDT by downtownconservative
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To: Robert DeLong

Well then I suppose she would not have any tours planned, guess his chat confused me


38 posted on 10/16/2017 2:52:07 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: downtownconservative

Interesting. Jagger and her were together at one point? That guy was with a lot of cute chicks.


39 posted on 10/16/2017 2:53:26 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216
Interesting. Jagger and her were together at one point? That guy was with a lot of cute chicks.

Because he could sing.....even black people be going, "He got some big-ass lips."

40 posted on 10/16/2017 2:54:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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