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Post by fabtastique on Nov 10, 2015 8:37:05 GMT -5
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Post by fabtastique on Nov 8, 2015 3:37:50 GMT -5
LITU is a good album, great song choices but live versions of most of them blow the recorded tunes away ..... When I Grow Too Old to Dream (with Muppets) is a prime example. but its a good, solid album that I still enjoy
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Post by fabtastique on Nov 8, 2015 3:33:43 GMT -5
ha!
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Post by fabtastique on Nov 1, 2015 1:19:52 GMT -5
nice .... so maybe there's more coming on other releases featuring b-sides etc. I'd like good cleaned up versions of Rambler Gambler and Lago Azul to start with
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 19, 2015 8:29:53 GMT -5
Very sad indeed
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 18, 2015 13:58:15 GMT -5
I've met most of my most favourite singers - I've been very lucky.
I was very nervous with Linda for which I'm frustrated with myself - she was gracious, charming and very accommodating to a bunch of overexcited fans. I'm fairly confident she didn't want to be there but it didnt show. I'll always remember that moment and cherish the autograph.
To reiterate my earlier comment - for me Linda was at her vocal and musical peak from 1980 to 1999. In that period she introduced 1000s of fans to music not known to them, including me. Without her I'm confident I would never have experienced and enjoyed the traditional Mexican Canciones and Latin tunes of FrenesÃ, the wealth of the great American songbook or (like countless others) experienced the joy, heartbreak or musicianship of the traditional bluegrass/ country tunes of Trio - plus other areas recorded, hinted upon and teased over the years. I feel very sad for the "fans" who left her behind in 1979/80/81 ..... You've all missed so much better from Linda than you experienced in the early part of her career.
And I feel equally as sad for those of us who followed her up until recently and have experienced her suffering and loss of voice due to Parkinsons.
All hail Linda!
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 18, 2015 12:37:35 GMT -5
Monster Mash is great! Linda is very prominent in background vocals
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 18, 2015 10:53:02 GMT -5
As Linda once said " singing is too important to be left to the professionals". She is a professional singer but she is also a singer day in day out, unlike other singers who sing only in the studio or in stage... Eg Babs (who I also love)
I truly believe that Linda, taking Parkinsons, out of the picture, would still have an amazing strong voice as she uses her voice (exercising those vocal chords) daily - unlike other singers she use them once/twice a year ....
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 18, 2015 5:48:53 GMT -5
sorry you feel like that but your comment was really kind of strange .... I'm sure Linda (or any artist) doesn't push albums to consumers just because they don't have to pay royalties on songs out of copyright. She's saying this because she connects more and is seemingly more proud of this music.
Again sorry to have upset you but I didn't think your comment was very well thought through.
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 18, 2015 4:17:57 GMT -5
Personally I totally agree with Linda .... I rarely listen to her earlier stuff. I could listen to the Nelson Riddle albums, CdmP, Mas Canciones, Frenesi, Trio, CLAR, Winter Light, Feels Like Home etc daily - she most certainly (in my opinion) grew as an artist and vocally during this period. The first 3 albums I never listen to, the albums from 73 to 80 I listen to more now that some of them have been remastered (the MoFi Editions I like) but Mad Love onwards for me is true Linda. Its such a shame that her later work wasn't as commercially successful as her early 70s stuff - a lot of her fans are stuck in the 70s and can't move beyond that.
Listen to some of the live bootlegs from 90s and Linda is in the middle of a Nelson Riddle set and some clown shouts out "sing Heatwave..." - thats actually very disrespectful.
People have their favourites, I get that - you have to understand that Linda does too and she's not afraid to voice that opinion.
Whatever your favourite we all have to agree that she has left an astounding body of work, across many musical styles and I'm proud to be a fan.
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 18, 2015 4:06:53 GMT -5
typical Guest comment ...... without thought
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 14, 2015 13:37:07 GMT -5
All 3 Spanish language albums are wonderful in their own way, Frenesà is perfect in my opinion !
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 14, 2015 12:37:11 GMT -5
A stellar performance / imagine if this was professionally recorded and released - it would be unbeatable
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 14, 2015 12:35:23 GMT -5
Add in the 3 Nelson Riddle albums and that's another area of music, hugely popular these days, almost singlehanded my revived by Linda ....
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 14, 2015 12:34:54 GMT -5
Their voices together are sublime, that along with the song choices and packaging make this one of the key recordings in Linda's catalogue as well as in popular American music. This I believe (at the time) was one of the biggest selling country music albums and is cited as revitalising country music in USA (no mean feat) and has to be thought of as groundbreaking and immensely important. Add in Canciones de mi Padre and Linda really has to be considered the most influential and important person in music in the last 100 years.
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 11, 2015 7:13:45 GMT -5
sorry, think my post popped up out of order .... who is Steve Smith?
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 10, 2015 15:30:05 GMT -5
OK - so Linda (looking great) John Boylan, Rosemary Butler and who? excuse my ignorance???
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 8, 2015 23:10:25 GMT -5
Linda looks great - love the hairstyle, perfect for a woman her age.
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 30, 2015 23:56:43 GMT -5
lovely photo shame about the glitches in the presentation. I also hope that the revamped and expanded Trio is more than Linda hinted at. It appears from previous conversations with her that she doesn't consider stuff not originally released as worthy to keep, hence so little rarities .... I'm sure we'll all be happy with it though. Roll on March 2016!!!
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 30, 2015 2:09:50 GMT -5
There was a nice trickle of out takes, unreleased tracks and demos a few years ago - shame nothing else has popped up recently
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 29, 2015 23:51:44 GMT -5
excited to hear how it was, and how Linda was - plus photos if possible!
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 27, 2015 2:57:49 GMT -5
UGH .... big miss there from Linda - TS songwriting skills are very suspect
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 27, 2015 2:43:36 GMT -5
would love to see or even hear La Boheme ....
would also love a video of one of her Cry Like A Rainstorm tours - can't believe these were not professionally recorded as it was such a huge seller - even a bootleg??
Finally, a video of the tracks with The Seldom Scene off the Box Set
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 25, 2015 0:43:17 GMT -5
Annie Lennox covers You Belong To Me on her Nostalgia album ... It's lovely
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 20, 2015 1:31:46 GMT -5
I've read several of her trashy novels on holiday, great fun. Jackie Collins
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 15, 2015 0:46:29 GMT -5
I always thought Bandit & A Heartbreaker and I'm Restless were originally intended and recorded for Cry like A Rainstorm
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 6, 2015 1:45:54 GMT -5
Don't Go Please Stay .... lovely too - that is a great album produced by Linda I think, and her vocals are peppered all over it!
another great one is Postcards From Paris by Jimmy Webb, lovely Linda vocals and the album was produced by her too.
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 5, 2015 11:55:10 GMT -5
lots of her background vocal performances could be considered duets thanks to the power and clarity of her voice and also her performance - I'm thankful for that....
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 5, 2015 11:14:59 GMT -5
songs from liquid days are great too - one of Linda's contributions in her most experimental and varied decade
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 5, 2015 8:01:49 GMT -5
The Chesapeake song is lovely too, plus Can't Get Used To Losing You with Andrew Gold
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