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Post by erik on Dec 23, 2017 18:09:14 GMT -5
It may seem like a flat and obvious statement, but here's what Lindi Ortega, the Canadian firebrand with the Mexican surname, said of Linda on March 25, 2010 in a Twitter posting:
"Linda Ronstadt has a killer voice. One of the best female voices I've ever heard."
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2017 1:22:15 GMT -5
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Post by 70smusicfan on Dec 26, 2017 21:11:50 GMT -5
Talking of Stevie Nicks, her recent biography "Gold Dust Woman" credits LR as her inspiration to become a singer:
Stevie was in her first year at San Jose State (where she had decided to study speech therapy, since it was the major closest to her aspiring singing career). A few months earlier, in the fall of 1967, she’d had an epiphany when she first heard Linda Ronstadt (from Tucson, Arizona) of the Stone Poneys sing "Different Drum" on Top 40 radio in a powerful voice that delivered a passionate message about a young woman wanting her independence from a man who just wants to settle down. Much later, looking back, Stevie remembered, "I heard Linda Ronstadt, and I just said, “That's it! That's what I want to do”... although I didn’t look as good as her in cut-offs.”
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 10, 2018 5:29:16 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Apr 10, 2018 9:12:50 GMT -5
http://instagr.am/p/BWlV0l-DAyv
Maria McKee, who was the lead singer of the very alt-country/rock band Lone Justice in 1982 when Linda first saw her, posted this last July 15th to mark Linda's 71st birthday. " Almost 35 years ago this exquisite being saw me sing in a tiny bar in the valley. The next day she called David Geffen. In other words, I don't know where I would be without her."
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Post by ausfan2 on Apr 17, 2018 4:33:33 GMT -5
Who said this?
“I never listened to my albums after I made them” said the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and National Medal of Arts recipient.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Apr 17, 2018 10:12:56 GMT -5
But of course La Linda. So technically goes into "Quotes by Linda Ronstadt" thread :-) IMO, boy she is missing out as she had lots of excellent collaborations included in those albums. Like a number of us have said; we don't like the sound of our own voice and/or that it sounds different from what we hear in our head as we talk. eddiejinfl
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Post by erik on Apr 17, 2018 18:57:00 GMT -5
Canadian-born alt-country firebrand Lindi Ortega on what drove the inspiration for her recently released Southwestern/Mexican concept album Liberty; she posted this on her Facebook page in November 2017 while finishing work on the album: " I chose Linda Ronstadt's Canciones De Mi Padre because not only am I a huge fan of Linda's voice, but being half Mexican, all the Ranchero Mexican folk songs really spoke to me. I love the instrumentation and the bravado of it. This record played a huge role in my wanting to try singing in Spanish for the first time. It's just such a beautiful language and everything always sounds so romantic." And in case anyone wants to know who Lindi Ortega is:
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Post by ausfan2 on Apr 17, 2018 20:25:23 GMT -5
ausfan2 asked:
eddiejinnj replied:
Of course Linda Ronstadt is the obvious answer.
But in this case it was Herb Alpert who shares the same sentiments and awards: “I never listened to my albums after I made them” said the 2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and 2012 National Medal of Arts recipient.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 17, 2018 21:40:30 GMT -5
I knew that was a trick question you trickster you lol. It was going to take more research than I had time for on tax day.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Apr 18, 2018 14:13:31 GMT -5
I should have known that aus would already know that but I kind of thought it a trick question, too. Well done. Also, come to think of it, tmk Linda says records not albums. eddiejinfl
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 14, 2019 5:14:22 GMT -5
Some nice quotes about Linda Ronstadt from one of her biggest and most famous fans, Trisha Yearwood!From forum member rick:I was in attendance and right before the moderator, a curator at The Grammy Museum, opened up the Q&A to the audience, he asked Trisha Yearwood about what influence Linda Ronstadt had on her. I quickly hit "Record" on the Audio Recorder on my iPhone and recorded her answer to that question and then kept it going throughout the entire Q&A. A woman in the audience asked a second question about Linda Ronstadt, specifically if Trisha has talked with or spent time with Linda recently, and Trisha said she had and talked about that. Also, part of the Q&A were Don Was, the producer of Trisha's new album, and Al Schmidt, the mixer for the album.
Without giving too much away, earlier in the session (before I had started recording) Al Schmidt said that the arranger Vince Mendoza purposely did NOT want the arrangements to sound like Nelson Riddle's arrangements. You can hear on the audio that Trisha then seconded that and said that because she loves Linda that she intentionally did not put any songs on her new album that had appeared on any of Linda's three albums with Nelson Riddle. (Yes, "I'll Be Seeing You" IS on the new album, that was not on one of Linda's albums with Nelson Riddle.) Here is a link to the audio file, if you care to listen --www.dropbox.com/s/qvlos4l01sgxbyq/TrishaQ%26A.m4a?dl=0 Hearing her (in the first part) talk about how when she (Trisha) was 13 years old and the first time she heard Linda ("When Will I Be Loved") and how that was it for her and that is who she wanted to be.. is thrilling to hear. It's nice to hear someone who doesn't have to give a nod to someone else as an influence really go out of her way to talk about how profoundly Linda impacted and influenced her. "That's the Voice. That's the Girl. And I still want to be Linda Ronstadt. The power in her voice. And the sadness in her songs. She loves a sad song and she just tears it up. .... Her voice is something that will just forever be."
And then she talked about how for this new "Let's Be Frank" (Sinatra tribute) album, Trisha said she purposely stayed away from the songs that Linda recorded with Nelson Riddle because she "is such a Ronstadt fan, so, as much in a way as I was nervous about recording Sinatra songs, I also didn't want to cover Linda Ronstadt......"
That section goes from Time 0:00 to 1 minute, 34 seconds on the file "TrishaQ&A" and then it picks up again later when a woman in the audience asks Trisha again about Linda Ronstadt and whether she has talked with Linda (since Linda's Parkinson's diagnosis) and Trisha talks for quite at length about how much she admires Linda and how she knows the liner notes on all of her albums by heart, etc. And Trisha talked about the first time she went back-stage to a Linda Ronstadt concert, and this was after Linda already had started her career, and Trisha was too nervous to go up to Linda. And then a few years later, at the Universal Amphitheatre, Trisha did get up the nerve to go backstage at one of Linda's concerts in the early 1990s. And then she talks about going to see one of the evenings where Linda talks about her career and how they hung out together after the show. And Trisha talks about how self-deprecating Linda is. So, there quite a bit there and I am glad I had the presence of mind to start recording just as the name "Linda Ronstadt" came up!
Read more: ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/5852/trisha-on-linda?page=1#ixzz5cZhVe9os
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 2, 2019 1:03:37 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 16, 2019 3:00:08 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Dec 18, 2019 20:07:45 GMT -5
Quotes by Mercy Bell, a Filipino-American (and LGBTQ) singer/songwriter of the Americana genre in the December 13, 2019 edition of American Songwriter: americansongwriter.com/mercy-bell-self-titled-album-interview/jlscott13gmail-com/" I have loved Linda Ronstadt since I was a tiny child. I would sit by my uncle’s record player and listen as an 8-year-old to ‘Long, Long Time,’ which is the most grownup song. I was obsessed. I remember watching her on ‘Pirates of Penzance’ when she decided to be an opera singer. Then, I loved her Mariachi music. I’m going to go home tonight and watch the documentary. I love Linda Ronstadt. That’s an understatement.” " As a kid, I saw in her this chameleon. She’s a Mexican-American. She had all this ancestry, and she could do any musical style. She didn’t care or preoccupy herself with fitting in. She just was. I love her live videos. She’s a consummate singer. I’ve always been drawn to singers. Sometimes, I feel in the industry you’re asked to choose between one style or another. She just did it all. She sang opera!"
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Post by Dianna on Dec 18, 2019 20:35:43 GMT -5
^ She looks like Norah Jones. Pretty
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Post by erik on Dec 21, 2019 0:11:19 GMT -5
Trisha on saluting her spiritual role model at the Kennedy Center:
"I've been doing this for 28 years and I think this might be the biggest night for me because she's my hero. She's the person that made me want to be a singer."
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Post by erik on Feb 8, 2020 19:03:48 GMT -5
Canadian-born, New Zealand-based singer/songwriter Tami Neilson on Linda ( American Songwriter; January 28, 2020): " When you look at someone like Linda Ronstadt, you can’t tie her to one genre. There wasn’t a single genre she didn’t explore and conquer. When you love singing, good music is good music."
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Post by erik on Mar 8, 2020 12:36:47 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Apr 10, 2020 8:59:53 GMT -5
Americana female artist Heather Anne Lomax on Linda after seeing THE SOUND OF MY VOICE on January 3 (from Twitter):
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Post by erik on May 5, 2020 18:41:09 GMT -5
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