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Post by Richard W on Nov 10, 2023 11:11:06 GMT -5
On Rock Star, Dolly covers the song, as a tribute to Linda, with Sheryl Crow and Emmylou.
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Post by Richard W on May 23, 2023 3:23:35 GMT -5
Okay, that was a fascinating read, for about a hundred reasons. Thanks, Tony! I appreciate the time involved, too.
Linda socking the guy in the mouth—😂.
And thanks, Musediva, for the Cold Blood vid!
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Post by Richard W on Mar 20, 2023 7:58:29 GMT -5
And let’s not forget Linda was producer on Lindley’s El Rayo-X’s album Very Greasy.
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Post by Richard W on Feb 1, 2023 12:31:48 GMT -5
Even better than the original is the live Troubadour version on the Capitol Years comp.
Her control is stronger, her phrasing surer, and when she hits the climax her voice fills the room and rebound off the walls, leaving the audience momentarily stunned.
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Post by Richard W on Jan 30, 2023 9:17:17 GMT -5
Tony — this episode is pretty much a standalone one. The two main characters only appear in this one episode.
I, too, gave up on TWD after a few seasons, but this show, so far, feels different, and is worth your time.
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Post by Richard W on Jan 29, 2023 23:42:19 GMT -5
The episode was called “Long Long Time” and was built around the song. It was heartbreaking.
Oh, and there’s even a Linda Ronstadt songbook prominently featured.
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Post by Richard W on Aug 27, 2022 22:55:26 GMT -5
She has her own clothing line (which, evidently, only she wears), and — this one kills me — her own brand of vodka! 😂
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Post by Richard W on May 18, 2021 10:19:22 GMT -5
The only lines that I can make out are, "positively thrilled to death" and "I wonder if anybody ever knew". I could be wrong. "I wonder if anybody ever knew" is all I've ever been able to make out.
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Post by Richard W on Apr 12, 2021 0:29:29 GMT -5
Well, you sketch before you learn the mechanics of drawing.
And it's not until your singular persona has absorbed those mechanics through tireless practice and repetition—and integrated them with whatever innate talent you have—that you have any chance of becoming an artist.
Roughly, anything before Don't Cry Now: vocal sketching; everything after that until Cry Like a Rainstorm: vocal training, technical absorption of the craft, honing talent; everything after that: art.
And through it all: the gift of rare vocal brilliance.
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Post by Richard W on Apr 8, 2021 9:23:12 GMT -5
Thanks, Erik. I should have known it would already have a thread here!
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Post by Richard W on Apr 8, 2021 8:24:27 GMT -5
Did anyone else read about this?
It was in the Chicago Tribume last week. This is from Rolling Stone:
Following deals with the Beach Boys and David Crosby, Linda Ronstadt is the latest artist to sell her catalog to Irving Azoff’s new company Iconic Artists Group. Although Ronstadt is one of the best-selling artists of all time, the fact that she’s not a songwriter makes her deal different from the Beach Boys, who sold a controlling interest in their intellectual property, and from David Crosby, whose deal contained his publishing rights. Instead, Iconic has acquired Ronstadt’s assets, in a sale that includes name and likeness to promote the masters.
Iconic’s partnership with Ronstadt, her longtime manager John Boylan, and personal assistant Janet Stark will aim to preserve her legacy in the digital era — including working with streaming services and social media, rolling out reissues, focusing on anniversaries, and more. The company announced the signing on Monday morning, during Women’s History Month and shortly after Ronstadt’s documentary The Sound of My Voice won a Grammy for Best Music Film. In the fall of 2022, she’ll release Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands, a book honoring her Mexican roots.
Azoff released a heartfelt statement about signing Ronstadt, who famously hired Don Henley and Glenn Frey as her backing band, leading them to form the Eagles in the early Seventies.
“In 1972 when I arrived in Los Angeles to pursue my dreams in the music business, as fate would have it, I soon thereafter became best friends and manager to Glenn Frey and Don Henley,” Azoff telling Rolling Stone. “Without Linda Ronstadt and John Boylan, there would have never been an Eagles. We were friends and family and grew up together, and what a ride it has been. The countless tours together with the Eagles and Linda and their collaborations are the backbone of the history of Southern California music.”
“For Linda and John to entrust us with the honor of furthering her work is one of the most satisfying moments of my career,” he continued. “Linda’s talent is unparalleled, but her courage and commitment to make important music of many genres is her legacy. We will preserve that legacy for her at all costs. Thank you, Linda and John. We won’t let you down.”
Added Ronstadt: “I’m very pleased about this partnership. It’s extremely gratifying to be in the company of Irving Azoff, his team, and his family of great artists, many of whom have been my friends and colleagues for years. It feels like home.” Beth Collins and Susan Genco, co-presidents of the Azoff Company, spoke with Rolling Stone about the deal and Ronstadt’s role as a woman trailblazer.
“For someone who was so massively successful and could have exploited her power, she never forced anyone to give her publishing on songs, which she easily could have done,” Genco says. “It was really important to us that legacy to be preserved, especially as two women in the business. Beth and I both have teenage daughters and they need to know about Linda Ronstadt. They need to understand the barriers that she broke in addition to the beautiful songs that she brought to people. She was the Taylor Swift of her time.”
“There’s a lot of interest in publishing assets right now in songs and compositions,” she added. “Anyone who would have looked at Linda Ronstadt and said, ‘We’re not interested in that deal because it doesn’t include publishing,’ wouldn’t be the right home. We look at it and say, ‘It’s Linda fucking Ronstadt.’ For her to let us come in and help her, it says a lot. And we don’t take that trust lightly.”
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Post by Richard W on Mar 31, 2021 18:41:46 GMT -5
Linda has so many different looks. Maybe be the makeup, but the picture in the middle does not even resemble the girl on either side. That's because it's not Linda in the middle pic. It's a woman from a tribute band that (careless) people have mistakenly used for Linda.
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Post by Richard W on Jan 27, 2021 13:42:12 GMT -5
To my astonishment, I heard the DCN version of Silver Threads in a Home Depot the other day. The first (and only) time I've heard that song outside of my own speakers. It really rocks.
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Post by Richard W on Dec 26, 2020 10:43:10 GMT -5
Thanks, Rick.
Interesting read, although I've come to loathe this song ever since a couple of years after Linda included it on her Christmas record it seemed everyone was covering it. I couldn't go anywhere during the holidays without hearing it by someone (but never Linda). Repeated overexposure killed the song for me.
Exact same thing happened with "Hallelujah".
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Post by Richard W on Oct 20, 2020 9:10:05 GMT -5
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Post by Richard W on Oct 15, 2020 18:30:06 GMT -5
Linda's singing on Moonlight in Vermont is simply gorgeous the way it swirls around Sinatra's.
Didn't he say it was one of his favorite duets?
Alas, the Souther / Ronstadt album that never was. My favorite tune of theirs is Sometimes You Just Can't Win, if you exclude that incredible performance of theirs on the live Prisoner in Disguise.
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Post by Richard W on Oct 14, 2020 15:49:38 GMT -5
It's even funnier that the dress belonged to Kosh's wife. so even that's not authentic! I do like the album cover, though--much better than the awkward video shown on MTV. That video makes me cringe. She looks so uncomfortable that it makes me uncomfortable to watch her in it, knowing that video is not her art form. And yes, it is funny that she borrowed Kosh's wife's dress but that actual dress is not used -- it's "Photoshopped" on her! I've always liked the PID cover. Noticed that no mention was made in the article of the dreaded Feels Like Home cover...
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Post by Richard W on Oct 14, 2020 8:32:03 GMT -5
Anyone ever notice that the only "real" things in the GC album cover are Linda's face and hair? All the rest -- dress, shoes, earrings, legs, arms -- is fake.
One of my favorite album covers, especially, as Eddie said, when opened up.
Only wish there'd beed an additional photo on the album sleeve.
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Post by Richard W on Sept 6, 2020 14:16:00 GMT -5
Sean, I haven't watched the downloaded video yet, but I can say that Heatwave and Lies were included in the concert broadcast last night, even though they are not on the album.
Video of the PBS broadcast was really good, but the bit I caught last night -- commitments kept me from rewatching the whole thing -- had a few video jumps during Lies toward the end of the song, and the video quality of that song was not up to the level of the rest of the show. Having watched the original broadcast on PBS, I can say, with some surprise, that Lies was not included in that broadcast, Heatwave being the only song in the show not on the album.
All of which leads me to believe that the broadcast last night may have been either all of the original HBO concert or, at least, an expanded version from the original PBS showing a month or so ago.
Anyone else?
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Post by Richard W on Sept 5, 2020 10:47:57 GMT -5
For those who missed it, Linda's Live in Hollywood concert is showing again on PBS tonight around 8:00, at least here in Chicago.
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Post by Richard W on Aug 25, 2020 13:03:56 GMT -5
Well, If both Linda and John aren't involved in these colored vinyl reissues, then who is?
Does the record label sell the rights to third-parties to put these out?
There has to be an official "supply line", what with copyrights and all.
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Post by Richard W on Aug 22, 2020 18:31:40 GMT -5
While "no one writes melodies anymore" is certainly a blanket statement, one somewhat belied by Linda's own praise of Newman's latest (if mostly unheard) melodies, and certainly one you could poke exceptions through, even a half-hour listen to contemporary popular music will leave you parched and panting for melody, so much of it is beats-based. And not only beats-based, but its often the very same beat—that insinuating, syncopated rhythm that is the hallmark of pole-dancing.
Really enjoyed that interview.
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Post by Richard W on Aug 21, 2020 10:42:05 GMT -5
Still on Amazon after the Get Closer post, I ran across this ( grrr...):
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Post by Richard W on Aug 21, 2020 10:37:37 GMT -5
Thanks for the heads-up. Wish I had a turntable! Speaking of Amazon, anyone ever hear of this? Looks "unofficial" to me.
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Post by Richard W on Aug 5, 2020 21:51:39 GMT -5
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Post by Richard W on Jul 25, 2020 12:24:38 GMT -5
Well, she wasn't on their list of the greatest singers of the rock era, either, so at least they're consistent.
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Post by Richard W on Jul 16, 2020 19:46:21 GMT -5
The download was a piece of cake. All I had to do was go to the download site and enter the redemption code number on the card. The download consisted of 3 files, one a "poster" from the album cover (27 x 41 inches), the other two mp4 files. The first mp4 file is timed at 56:23 and is, I assume, the entire concert as broadcast.
The mystery right now is the second mp4 file. It's 1:33 long and starts inexplicably in the middle of the guitar solos on YNG. I'm hoping that it's just an error, and not somehow footage missing from the main file that should already be there.
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Post by Richard W on Jul 14, 2020 20:38:15 GMT -5
Got my Linda Ronstadt lanyard (what the hell am I going to do with that?) and the concert download card today, in case anyone else is still waiting.
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Post by Richard W on Jul 12, 2020 9:08:45 GMT -5
Personally, I've always found the studio version of this song to be a bit of a drag (especially the instrumental break), never understanding the critics' favoring of it.
While this live version is somewhat, well, livelier, none of Linda's renditions tops the raucous version on the live Little Feet album. "This is a Little Feet song I did on my record," she says—sure, but it wasn't arranged like this, which, for sheer energy and vocal oomph, runs over the studio version like road kill.
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Post by Richard W on Jul 4, 2020 20:53:35 GMT -5
And David Lindley on slide.
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