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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>>I feel as if I really started learning how to sing in around 1980.
I have never heard anything she sang after 1979.
Good for her. I don’t like any of them either.
So she and I do have something in common.
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Well, that makes it unanimous then.
Not sick enough of it to cancel your tour stops apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhtnB6kSCyA
‘Different Drum’ from 50 years ago.
Written by Mike Nesmith of... ‘The Monkees’...
Well then we have something in common.
What a coincidence.
I don’t like any of her records either.
Then the interview turns into Trump bashing
She hates her albums because a Christian once heard them.
One of the most popular college posters of the 1970s. But I guess that would be sexist to say that now.
Not sick enough of it to cancel your tour stops apparently
Where is she playing?
Linda Ronstadt
On tour: no
Upcoming 2017 concerts: none
“What’s New” w/ Nelson Riddle is one of my all-time favorites.
Her politics are crap, but the woman can sing.
All I know was when she sang the national anthem before a World Series game in Dodger stadium in that satin Dodger jacket, she was awesome!
I remember Blue Bayou ,, that’s about it.. when she dated MoonBeam, that was it for me.
The feeling is mutual, toots.
She’s not the only one.
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