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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 22:36:16 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Feb 12, 2017 0:29:59 GMT -5
It had to have been a heady experience to hear that album when it was only a few years old, as this writer did.
But to try to explain that heady feeling to today's listeners is nearly impossible, because it almost seems to me they don't really know or appreciate the value or the importance of either Heart Like A Wheel as an album, or Linda as one of the single most influential singers, female or otherwise, of the last sixty years.
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Post by rumba on Feb 12, 2017 0:42:23 GMT -5
Got a promotional copy of it day of release.
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Post by Richard W on Feb 12, 2017 11:03:01 GMT -5
That was great.
However, as we know, that was Maria Muldaur singing harmony on "Heart".
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Post by Tony on Feb 12, 2017 14:21:10 GMT -5
Her recollections may be off a bit timewise as well. I doubt that Heart Like a Wheel, released in 1974, would be a selection of the month for Columbia House in 1977. Monthly selections were recent releases.
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Post by Guest of a Guest on Feb 15, 2017 16:46:10 GMT -5
The liberating feeling that HLAW gave this 14 year old is much as the author stated in this well written appreciation - mistaken dates etc. notwithstanding.
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Post by PoP80 on Apr 4, 2017 14:27:08 GMT -5
I sent Laurie Filipelli a message through Linked In about the article and we connected. She was very surprised/flattered that the article was still out there and being read.
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Post by Richard W on Apr 5, 2017 9:42:57 GMT -5
A new friend who loves vinyl recently turned 50. For her gift I got her a still-sealed vinyl copy of HLAW, with which she was unfamiliar. About a week later she emailed me, ''Linda rocks!"
Later I heard from a friend who visited her that she was playing the album not only during the visit, but had been playing it non-stop, driving her husband to distraction.
That album is a classic.
I also forwarded the recent article in the Article string to her, since she is also an ardent feminist besides a music lover (that she mentioned playing Nicks's Belladonna gave me the idea for HLAW). I thought she should know about Linda's "glass ceiling" breaking. She read it and thanked me for it.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Apr 5, 2017 16:41:45 GMT -5
Am confused who got the idea for HLAW by listening to Belladonna? The author of the Linda article? It certainly wasn't Linda; as Linda recorded HLAW in 1974 and Belladonna was from 1981. eddiejinfl
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Post by Richard W on Apr 6, 2017 7:53:16 GMT -5
Eddie, it was my new friend who mentioned playing Belladonna on vinyl recently. I figured if she liked Nicks she might like Linda. I also figured she might be someone for whom Linda was not on her radar. HLAW was the choice I made to expose her to Linda.
A good choice, as it turned out! That record is timeless.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Apr 6, 2017 8:27:25 GMT -5
I just get so frustrated (we'll say that word)hearing Nicks over and over with Fleetwood Mac and even some solo stuff. Not trying to offend Nicks' fans by any means. I have seen Nicks solo 2 or 3 times. I hear FM ad nauseam. I just can't understand how they pick the acts that are played that way vs others. I know radio has to change rotations giving newer acts rotation etc which replaces others but some acts just seem to get heavy rotation still after a billion years lol!!!!! Other big acts fall out of radio play forever. It seems mostly within the "classic rock" subgenre but even soft hit stations have a weird way of choosing who they will play. Lots of one hit wonders get played vs say Helen Reddy, Linda and even Olivia minus Grease. eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on Apr 6, 2017 9:23:12 GMT -5
Quote by eddieinnj:
I think there's something more at work than just simply having big acts of the past replaced by new ones. Linda's musical diversity, while many of us might applaud it (rightly), was never taken seriously by most radio stations after Cry Like A Rainstorm, and that was unfortunately reflected in the very minimal record sales she had after 1990. And while we might like to believe her visibility among people increased after the public announcement of her Parkinson's diagnosis and the publication of her memoir, it hasn't done the same on the radio. The fact is that she is not played all that much, if at all, a fact that is inexcusable, and, in my opinion, no more so than out here in Los Angeles, where she spent so much of her life recording.
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Post by fabtastique on Apr 6, 2017 14:53:33 GMT -5
personally I've never liked the radio..... I'd rather listen to what i want and not be dictated to and suffer drivel that is played. Plus the endless talk and commercials..... I really do not get radio.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 6, 2017 16:05:12 GMT -5
I think most radio caters to what is popular with the tweens or the hits of the day. Playing Linda Ronstadt today (unless on an oldies station) would be like playing Al Jolson during the early Rock era. I don't think it would go over well especially since what is popular has gone in quite a different direction. I am not sure what to call it. And us oldsters mostly listen to talk radio or as Fab says the playlists of our lives and what we enjoy from our own time. There is so much Rock music I am discovering even today because I never listened to it when I was younger. Radio seems a hit and miss proposition these days and the music reflects the times. Spastic.
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Post by PoP80 on Apr 6, 2017 16:31:39 GMT -5
That's why I listen to WFUV-FM. It's commercial free, they play an eclectic mix of music, and the DJs are cool. You can listen to the livestream online.
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Post by erik on Apr 6, 2017 18:41:32 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz:
It really boils down to one of the certainties in life (besides death and taxes, of course), that we eventually become like our parents and grandparents in a lot of ways. We feel as unstable about the Biebers and the Swifts of this world as earlier generations did about Elvis and the Beatles. Of course, the Internet can be a wonderful way of finding artists that might appeal to our sensibilities--that, and word of mouth, which, in the case of Tift Merritt, I hope Robert, cescpa56 and myself have made a difference in turning folks onto her authentic brand of modern Americana and old-school country-rock.
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Post by moe on Apr 7, 2017 10:08:04 GMT -5
personally I've never liked the radio..... I'd rather listen to what i want and not be dictated to and suffer drivel that is played. Plus the endless talk and commercials..... I really do not get radio. I agree 100%. I hardly listen to radio any more-well with the exception of NPR- but only when on the road. I think that FM will, like AM, become the home for talk radio-probably right wing. Looking at the rise of Sirius and its brethren with the specific taste channels, I believe that radio-like our civilization in general-is becoming tribalized. Ironically in music, as well as in the broad world , the proliferation of choices has served to drive us further apart. |
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Post by cymru56 on Apr 7, 2017 12:48:03 GMT -5
HLAW ranks amongst my favourite albums of all time.
Regarding radio, apart from the odd documentary and one or two programmes I might listen to with the prospect of discovering new artists I would only ever listen
to it in the car. I now look primarily to the internet to discover new artists and haven't listened to the radio in the car in over a year (a flash drive loaded with mp3 from my album collection satisfies my needs)
By the way erik, when you refer to cescpa56 do you mean me?
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Post by erik on Apr 7, 2017 18:04:58 GMT -5
Quote by cymru56:
I probably did, and got the name wrong, my apologies. But yes, you were the one that got both Robert and I onto Tift Merritt 15 years ago.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Apr 8, 2017 16:03:47 GMT -5
Much of Linda's material could transfer to many current radio formats. So the analogy re: Jolson and Ronstadt is not apples for apples to me. YNG does get radio play at the shore station in nj. It is a quote 60's-80's format. So are classic rock stations. So there are songs that should fit into certain radio formats. eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on Apr 8, 2017 20:57:28 GMT -5
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True...but only if those radio stations, the program directors or, more perniciously (grumble, grumble), the corporations that run those radio stations want to. And not many of them seem to want to play much, if any, of Linda, though recently deceased stars like Whitney, Michael, and Prince are still played up the wazoo.
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