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Post by musedeva on Aug 18, 2021 12:08:25 GMT -5
THIS!! right here is just one of the bEST....all live...all true! Singing "Lush Life" 1998 at Rosemary Clooney tribute.
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Post by musedeva on Aug 18, 2021 12:24:29 GMT -5
saw this thread again and wanted to remark;
I wonder if Sharry E ever talked to Linda?? I would think that Linda is in fact resigned to stay "retired" but that doesn't mean she can't be "hummin" to herself like she shared ...i.e. her real loss was her everyday singsongs alone.....hopefully Sharry or others could encourage her to be toning, using crystal bowls and other
my particular journey was because of injuries, two, at just about opposite ends of my body...my jaw from orthodontia and my hip from a swimming pool accident when I ran into the wall with my head and it traveled down my spine and settled in my right hip
it was always about inconsistency in my vocal...one phrase could be pretty darn good...then the next one off...total frustration
this is what ultimately helped me, along with a lot of ear training experimentation with physical approaches, craniosacral self treatment...a wonderful book by Daniel Agustoni, now, before I vocalize, I put one hand on the diaphragm and the other holding the parathyroids around the vocal Box and then I wait to "feel" them pulse/align...very WILD and helpful!!
Linda apparently has suffered with alot of differing problems unfortunately, but her beacon is still there,,that video of her singing w/family, what, last Christmastime?, she can still align with her tonal column and have alot of fun I just know it......
isn't this FANTABulous!!! Positivity!!!! I spent hours on Sharry's site the other nite.....sent my whole email circle links to her stuff on the coronavirus--FASCINATING!!! I remember finding her years ago...and then somehow losing track Definately getting back into her stuff soon!! Did you get to try her services? Experiments with light and sound machines have cleared the alzheimer's brains. I think this is the tip of the iceberg.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2021 13:23:43 GMT -5
I think Linda will keep trying while she breathes! Nothing from ir about her in 2021 AFAIK, no news is good I hope.
musedeva, congratulations on your recoveries, very inspiring!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2021 19:03:20 GMT -5
KSWM 1999 broadcast "Girls' Night Out" Linda & Emmylou. Very sad, Linda without her recording studio to help embellish her singing, her voice sounds worn out.
"Heart Like A Wheel" had me choked up too, but "Talk to Me of Mendocino" was OK. Others... for another night.
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Post by Gusty on Sept 18, 2021 22:23:22 GMT -5
Linda always has been so hard on her own vocal talents, saying things like she didn't sing well until the 1980's, which is nonsense I'd like to see her try to sing, again. I understand her ability is affected by her illness, but I think she should try. Why not? Try some soft, non demanding things, like songs from her lullaby cd.
I think she can do it. I understand her not wanting to sing now, but I think she could do it. She doesn't have to sound like the female Caruso anymore, but I bet she could sound nice. Sing because she's a singer, to make herself happy. Anyone else?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2021 5:58:59 GMT -5
I think Linda going back to her younger days material was bound to be disappointing. For someone as adventurous as she was, "Hummin' " and maybe "We Ran" were the right direction. Mariachi was always OK, Lola Beltràn sang on as she aged. Ella Fitzgerald and others likewise.
Linda had good over-developed (sic), lower end voice, so songs that were deeper, smoother and mellower were there.
Dolly Parton & Emmylou Harris were & are higher-octaved naturally, Emmylou's later more recent songs are quieter I've noticed.
For Trio 2, Linda sang bass, and was happy. Western Wall also in 1999, and Merry Christmas were well produced. However live, you can see & hear Linda was uneasy, for that radio broadcast, and the Trio 2 promotion performances, she was & admitted being exhausted.
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Post by musedeva on Sept 23, 2021 3:09:39 GMT -5
THIS!!! ^^^^^^^^^
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2021 14:16:10 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Sept 23, 2021 18:21:26 GMT -5
Quote by Gusty:
I think the issue is this: If she can no longer sing in a way that, in her own mind, is aesthetically satisfying to her, then it isn't going to happen. In her book Nobody Ever asked Me About The Girls, former Hit Parader writer Lisa Robinson related that she had interviewed Linda in 2012 and Linda had told her that she hadn't been able to sing in three years (presumably since her last concert, with the mariachis, in San Antonio), but that if she still could, nothing would stop her. But by then, no matter how much she tried, the voice, at least in Linda's opinion, would freeze solid; and none of the things she had done over the years to keep the voice fit were working anymore. If any one of us could relieve her of the health issues that destroyed her voice and bring that voice back, we'd fly up to San Francisco and make it happen. But we can't.
The whole thing about Linda's voice, at least in my opinion is this. It is one thing that Linda's voice declined at all, even though we know such things are inevitable even among singers (again like Linda) who take the utmost care to preserve those voices. It is quite another thing for that voice to be destroyed by something as insidious and potentially even life-threatening as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, even when her vocal larynx were deemed to be as strong as they had ever been. And finally, given the public statements and rationalizations she has given over the decades, it is an absolute tragedy that she seemed not to have recognized just how important she was in the hearts of her fans, her fellow musicians, and her peers until that ability was gone.
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Post by Holly on Sept 23, 2021 22:02:50 GMT -5
Linda needs to put all her energy into her health and well being. She seems to be doing better than most with the same diagnosis most likely because of her accepting mindset and positive outlook. She has even managed to work on another book which is short of amazing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2022 8:48:58 GMT -5
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Post by eddiejinnj on Feb 27, 2022 12:28:21 GMT -5
During the Western Wall tour, at least the show I saw at the Beacon, was one of the BEST Linda concerts ever. She was touring with a dear friend from an album that was doing well. It did get up to number 6 country. To think that it is very sad, imo, is hogwash. Did I say that, lol. Yes, yes, I did. All have a nice Sunday. eddiejinfl
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Post by prisonerindisguise on Feb 28, 2022 12:41:17 GMT -5
And though she was trying to record another album towards the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 that was a throwback to what she had done in the early 1970s, it was stopped because it wasn't just her voice that was failing her, it was her hands, because it made it difficult for her to play the guitar in the studio. Were any recordings or demos made for that cancelled album? I've heard it mentioned before on this site but info seems to be scarce. Even Google isn't showing anything for me. The phrase "difficult for her to play the guitar in the studio" to me implies that she did get into the studio at some point.
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Post by prisonerindisguise on Feb 28, 2022 12:54:10 GMT -5
Performance in Kobe, Japan May 1993. Linda not getting the higher notes of old, especially on "Ooh Baby Baby", but she was 56 going on 57 then, so.... Nice that Andrew Gold was there with her. You bumped her up by a decade there. From everything I heard her voice seems to have started to change a bit around 1993. I'm guessing that was just normal aging at that point. I notice change (not necessarily decline, just change) in the power of her voice when singing softer and/or quieter parts. She was still right on the note and had great control, but to me it just didn't sound as powerful or strong on the softer parts starting with Winter Light, though she definitely belted even more powerfully on Winter Light and later albums. I think that's the main way her voice changed for a while. She sounds great even when listening to live performances from 2006 and 2009 as long as she's belting something out. She just sounds weaker and quieter on softer songs. Maybe that's what she means when she says she was "just yelling" towards the end of her career?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2022 16:47:29 GMT -5
I actually don't like belting out for its own sake. With Mariachi its part of the style, so acceptable, but not in all songs. Linda belted/yelled in some of her Riddle albums to a discordant level for my ears. "The Waiting" on FLH is a track I always skip. Gimme softly and tenderly any day.
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