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Post by alyn on May 31, 2018 6:39:58 GMT -5
Hi all, Followed a link to this show on Big O but it seems to have been unavailable for downloading for some time and doesn't look as if it's coming back. It looks intriguing - does any one have another source for this, I've looked around with no luck. I'm thinking 'High Sierra' is the song I know - Boz Scaggs version...
Any help appreciated. Thank you Alyn
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Post by alyn on Jun 7, 2018 14:01:29 GMT -5
...for the record, I've found a copy on ioffer.com...
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 7, 2018 14:12:05 GMT -5
...for the record, I've found a copy on ioffer.com... Some great stuff there. Thanks for letting us know Alyn. |
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Post by alyn on Jun 8, 2018 2:00:15 GMT -5
You're very welcome...when it arrives I will give an appraisal here, for reference, if anyone is interested :-)
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Post by alyn on Jun 12, 2018 6:38:06 GMT -5
This CD arrived today, actually very fast delivery from the US, only took 4-5 days. Cover - homespun but not bad quality, disc surface blank.
I've listened to it once and I really love it, Linda's voice sounds very very strong, the choice of songs is very tender and reflective but has an upbeat feel as well. The sound is good but a little distorted in places. There are some blistering mandolin solos, very high quality playing. I always felt that Bonnie Raitt 'owned' Feels Like Home to my mind but hearing this live vesrion I could be changing my mind. I was hoping 'High Sierra' was the song I know (and love) by Boz Scaggs (not sure who wrote it) but in my Linda Ronstadt ignorance presume it is from one of her Trio albums which I've yet to discover fully...I'll get there :-) (so much music, so little time). It is a beautiful song. Over-all on first listen I'd give this a solid 8 out of 10 for content and quality.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 12, 2018 22:58:30 GMT -5
The Trio did record High Sierra but there was a bit of a dust up between Linda and Dolly where Linda ended up suing Dolly and then had Dolly's vocals removed from the song(s) and released it on her solo album Feels Like Home. Linda actually was the first to record Feels Like Home. When Linda and Emmy were on their Western Wall Tour they came to the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix-Tempe Az) and sang at the theatre in-the-round. Linda started singing Feels Like Home about 5 feet from my seat and I practically melted. It was the most heart-felt Linda moment I have ever had. In my opinion Linda "owns" that song.
When Trio II came out High Sierra and some of the other songs from the Feels Like Home album original to the Trio recordings found their way back on that album. Dolly's vocals were put back including lead on After The Gold Rush which on Linda's album had Valerie Carter replacing Parton. Both wonderful versions.
What other songs are on the Sam Bush Ronstadt album? I think we talked about this on the old forum but I had a younger man's memory back then. Linda's album Feels Like Home replaced Linda Ronstadt "eponymous" as my favorite. Awesome album. Classic. And yes, I even love the cat on the cover lol. I'm a cat guy.
Alyn, Party Girl that you are, you might enjoy exploring this site: secondhandsongs.com/artist/1626/originals#nav-entity
Boz Scaggs song is Sierra (not High Sierra). Also a pretty song.
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Post by alyn on Jun 13, 2018 2:38:57 GMT -5
Tracks on the Berger Centre, Tucson, 2002 bootleg CD: Feels Like Home High Sierra Hobo's Meditation Lover's Return If I Should Fall Behind Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Telling Me Lies The Waiting 41 minutes On The Big O website it states: Towards the end of her performance, as she had done across the country, Ronstadt spoke to the audience, praising Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore’s documentary film about the Iraq War, and dedicated the song “Desperado” to Moore.
Accounts say the crowd’s initial reaction was mixed, with “half the crowd heartily applauding her praise for Moore, (and) the other half booing”. However, the situation escalated into what Tyri Squyres, director of public relations at the Aladdin, described as a “mob scene… It’s amazing how ugly it got,” with people walking out, tearing down posters, throwing drinks and demanding a refund.As bizarre as that all sounds, I guess Desperado never made it to the recording we have here and will remain in the mists of time. But I'm wondering if it relates to this show?
I appreciate this could all be 'old news' to Linda fans, but I'm still new here :-)
I understand your reasoning on Feels Like Home :-) I'm still not totally sure, there is a beautiful warmth to Bonnie Raitt's voice and the tone is possibly more sympathetic to the lyrics, but Linda gives it more heart, as she always does. I'm on the fence! At the end of the day, why am I wondering which is best...they are both outstanding. For the record, I love Bonnie Raitt's music from around the time of Give It Up and enjoy plenty from the mid-1970s but I never really caught her wave when Nick Of Time raised her up the level she has stayed at. It's the old stuff for me mostly.
You're right...Boz Scaggs' Sierra was minus the High...what a brilliant song. I love Boz Scaggs' music, his 'Greatest Hits Live' CD / DVD from 2004 is my absolute favourite live album, although I despair of the title which cheapens it somewhat. I've collected all his work and his new releases never disappoint.
Thanks for the link... all good useful information there. And still finding more here to keep me pleased, yesterday I ordered the Anti Nuclear Rally Concert from 1982 which features a healthy chunk of a Linda Ronstadt set and throw in JT and Jackson Browne.... really looking forward to that.
And I must try and lose that 'Party Girl' tag...it's not good for my image!
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Post by ausfan2 on Jun 22, 2018 5:48:10 GMT -5
That statement is not correct. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 American documentary film directed, written by, and starring filmmaker, director and political commentator Michael Moore.
The Berger Centre concert was in June 2002, 2 weeks prior to Linda's Telluride appearance and 2 years before the Aladdin incident in July 2004.
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Post by alyn on Jun 22, 2018 6:38:56 GMT -5
It did appear that something was out of sync there... starting with the main title of the live set as 'Living In The USA' which bore no relevance whatsoever to the show, Big O is a very good site for ROIOs but a bit mixed up on this one...
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Post by Partridge on Jun 29, 2018 3:15:30 GMT -5
alien-- you should get a copy of Linda's album Feels Like Home-- if you liked this concert with the Sam Bush band, you will love that album. Don't let that dreadful cover (can you believe it's a Kosh design!) deter you.
I did not call you alien- my computer autocorrected me. alien every time I type a l y n it changes alien to alien
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Post by alyn on Jun 29, 2018 4:36:38 GMT -5
I've been called worse :-) actually with some friends I call myself 'alien', I've had so many variations on Alyn over the years...!
I do have Feel Like Home but it hasn't really made a lasting impression on me yet, but now I'm familiar with the live versions of songs from the album it might start to work for me...
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Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 2, 2019 18:13:10 GMT -5
It was strange to me that in Linda's role in "Faust" by Randy Newman was the quote nice girl whom you would think would sing "FLH" vs the bad girl character Bonnie portrayed. I would say Bonnie did well but Ronstadt owns it to me also. eddiejinfl
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 4, 2019 2:09:12 GMT -5
It was strange to me that in Linda's role in "Faust" by Randy Newman was the quote nice girl whom you would think would sing "FLH" vs the bad girl character Bonnie portrayed. I would say Bonnie did well but Ronstadt owns it to me also. eddiejinfl Not only that the original (first) recording of that song belongs to Linda Ronstadt. Raitt's version is a cover. |
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Post by alyn on Mar 12, 2019 10:14:11 GMT -5
A bit further down the line, I'm enjoying Linda's music more than ever than anything else, but I'm still thinking, for me, Bonnie's version of Feels Like Home is the stronger one...it just has that weariness in her voice that she does so well and it fits the song that bit better than Linda's heartfelt version, I'm not a huge fan of the Feels Like Home album, the songs sounded better live and in the studio it's all a little bit 'dry' for me.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2019 3:29:16 GMT -5
A bit further down the line, I'm enjoying Linda's music more than ever than anything else, but I'm still thinking, for me, Bonnie's version of Feels Like Home is the stronger one...it just has that weariness in her voice that she does so well and it fits the song that bit better than Linda's heartfelt version, I'm not a huge fan of the Feels Like Home album, the songs sounded better live and in the studio it's all a little bit 'dry' for me. I have seen Linda perform many times in person and the most moving song and moment for me (of all times) was when she sang Feels Like Home. It was the definition of verklempt. I know I wasn't the only one who felt she was singing that song to them personally. Feels Like Home, the album is my favorite of Linda's with eponymous being my second favorite and yes, I even love the cover although I don't know why they didn't use a photo transfer of a 5 year old Linda on the cover holding the house tiger. |
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Post by alyn on Mar 15, 2019 10:00:03 GMT -5
It's cool that we all have our favourites and that they differ, for me personally, Hasten Down The Wind (despite Crazy) and Mad Love (despite Look Out For My Love) are streets ahead my favourite albums from Linda's catalogue with Don't Cry Now being a fairly distant third place. I consider her Nelson Riddle albums and Mexican albums completely separate and a different classification from her mainstream albums but love them as much.
I have other foibles... apart from preferring Bonnie Raitt's Feels Like Home, I prefer Joan Osborne singing Heatwave (so incredibly soulfully) on the Funk Brothers Standing In The Shadows set to Linda's version and I've never felt totally at ease with Linda's versions of Neil Young songs.
Just personal opinions... there is so much of Linda's music to enjoy and feel that personal emotion with so many of them, I'd happily exist on a desert island with all her albums, my Little Feat collection and as many Frank Sinatra recordings I could grab and take with me...
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Post by Partridge on Mar 15, 2019 15:37:21 GMT -5
Hasten Down The Wind (despite Crazy) and Mad Love (despite Look Out For My Love) Yes, we all have our differences. I consider Crazy to be the shining jewel of Hasten Down the Wind, and Look Out For My Love is a favorite from Mad Love. I actually like the Mad Love album more now than when it was released but I rarely play Hasten Down the Wind, which I loved upon its release. I will have to give it a listen this weekend. |
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Post by Partridge on Mar 15, 2019 15:44:41 GMT -5
As for Bonnie Raitt, she and Linda have recording many of the same songs through the years-
Louise
Love Has No Pride
I'm Blowing Away
Feels Like Home
... maybe others that I am not recalling now.
I too prefer to hear Bonnie's versions of Love Has No Pride and I'm Blowing Away. I prefer Linda singing about Louise, but Bonnie's version is great. Feels Like Home I might give a slight edge to Linda, even though it is my least favorite song on the Feels Like Home album.
The good thing is that Linda and Bonnie each bring out different emotions in those songs, just as Linda brings out a different crazy emotion than Patsy Cline. Patsy's version sounds like she might actually be a bit insane, but Linda sounds more like clinical depression.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2021 11:24:15 GMT -5
Linda has some songs that go as well or better with her as she matured. Her Caniones, Riddle & purer country songs do best as often singers for those were more mature. Lyrics and melodies, rather than decibels. I believe Linda was at heart always a mature singer of songs for people at first older than she was. The songs Linda listened to, and was most unfluenced by as a child, were written for audiences before the teen-culture age started.
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Post by rick on Oct 24, 2021 15:49:37 GMT -5
ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/927/linda-eclectic-set-lists?page=2
2002Berger Performing Arts Centre, Tucson, Arizona 13 June 2002 - Tucson 1. Feels Like Home 2. High Sierra 3. Hobos' Meditation 4. Lovers Return 5. If I Should Fall Behind 6. Just like Tom Thumbs Blues 7. Telling Me Lies 8. The Waiting Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Telluride, Colorado 21 June 2002 (Linda Ronstadt with Sam Bush, Chris Bram, Byron House and John Randall Stewart) 1. Feels Like Home 2. High Sierra 3. Lover's Return 4. Ma Chere Tite Fille (Ann Savoy joins) 5. Tom Thumbs Blues 6. Telling Me Lies 7. The Waiting (Emmylou Harris with Linda Ronstadt) 8. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 9. Talk to Me of Mendocino 10. Boulder to Birmingham
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Post by MokyWI on Nov 6, 2021 13:27:14 GMT -5
I remember seeing a recording of the Sam Bush concert several years back, I even heard an MP3 of it and it included a song or two from Prisoner in Disguise. I am pretty sure they did “Roll Um Easy” as well.
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