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Post by MokyWI on Mar 17, 2021 17:51:57 GMT -5
It's about her childhood and growing up in Tucson Arizona. Her family roots. Go to Americansongwriter.com.
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Post by laurenm57 on Mar 17, 2021 19:31:20 GMT -5
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Post by fabtastique on Mar 18, 2021 1:43:19 GMT -5
wow great news! Can't wait until 2022!
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Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 18, 2021 7:15:59 GMT -5
I am so glad she is feeling well and restless enough to help write this project. Good luck with the book Linda and all involved. eddiejinfl
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Post by PoP80 on Mar 18, 2021 8:40:16 GMT -5
This is wonderful news! I love reading biographies and my favorite part is discovering how people's childhoods shaped their development as adults. Of course, Linda's roots in Tucson are fascinating with the mystique of the desert and her Mexican roots. Lawrence Downes is so enamored of Linda and I know this book will be produced with care. A friend of mine worked with him at the New York Times and she said he's a really nice guy. Great title, too!
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Post by erik on Mar 18, 2021 8:49:06 GMT -5
I hope she is able to complete this book. Much more needs to be learned and known about that particular part of the world where she was born and raised; and I can't think of anyone else this prominent who would know more about it than she does. There are plenty of misconceptions about both the U.S./Mexico border and the entirety of the Sonoran Desert (one of the widest swaths of desert anywhere in the world), and Linda would be the one to clear those up with her own memories from her childhood and from her own observations of recent times.
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Post by 70smusicfan on Mar 18, 2021 11:17:50 GMT -5
Has everyone read the biography of her Grandfather (or Great-Grandfather), titled Borderman? It's a great read, and reminds me how easy we have it these days (until Covid at least). Life was tough back then, and lots of people died of illnesses we have obliterated or that are curable/treatable now. My Mom talks about the outhouse and gas lighting before their farm was electrified in the 1930s under the CCC programs. Little bit about the Dalton side of the family too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2021 13:39:25 GMT -5
It's about her childhood and growing up in Tucson Arizona. Her family roots. Go to Americansongwriter.com. Something to look forward to 👍
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Post by vikingfan on Mar 21, 2021 14:17:06 GMT -5
I'll happily read this. But I do wish we'd get a book that got into more specifics about her albums and tours, the process of song selection, recording and set lists, etc....
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Post by erik on Mar 21, 2021 18:29:08 GMT -5
Quote by vikingfan:
I think that lack of specifics that you talk about was one of the flaws that a lot of people found about her memoir, especially the period from 1975 to 1980 when her popularity was at its apex. I myself wish she had delved into that more, but it was likely the seemingly endless times she performed in stadiums and arenas, which weren't then, and still aren't now, conducive to music, even rock, that caused her not to do so. They all kind of blurred together.
But a lot of artists, not just people involved in music, but also in making movies, if they are like Linda (in music) or Steven Spielberg (in movies), will rarely if ever talk about the process in deep detail, because even they don't always understand that, and oftentimes they'd rather let their albums or their movies speak for themselves, if they have any self-worth and view what they do as their life rather than as a mere money-making operation.
And when it comes to Linda's constant drive, particularly after her Nelson Riddle period, to do things absolutely perfectly, there is the problem that, if she ever did achieve such perfection on a project, she might never be able to do it again. It's like a story I read about Laurence Olivier doing a performance of Shakespeare's Othello that many people felt he did so well that it was an out-of-body experience; and when someone asked "Larry" (which is what Lord Olivier liked to be called, don't ask why) if he knew how impressive his performance was, looking pale with exhaustion, he is reported to have said: "Yes. But I don't know how I did it."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2021 11:56:16 GMT -5
I am a student of ABBA's history. Sometimes the best books are 3rd party biographies, with interviews & photos etc from both members & those who were, but are no longer, associated with a singer or band.
Rightfully now is Linda's time to give her own accounts of experiences, influences & life as she knew it. Linda may not remember, &/or want dug up, all things in her lifetime.
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Post by 70smusicfan2 on Feb 12, 2022 9:21:46 GMT -5
I see on Amazon that Linda's new book is scheduled for release in October. Look for: Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands Hardcover – October 4, 2022 by Linda Ronstadt (Author), Lawrence Downes (Author), Bill Steen (Photographer)
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Linda Ronstadt takes readers on a journey to the place her soul calls home, the Sonoran Desert, in this candid new memoir
In Feels Like Home, Grammy award-winning singer Linda Ronstadt effortlessly evokes the barometric pressure of the high desert, a landscape etched by sunlight and carved by wind, offering a personal tour built around meals and memories of the place where she came of age. Growing up the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants and a descendant of Spanish settlers near northern Sonora, Ronstadt’s intimate new memoir celebrates the marvelous flavors and indomitable people on both sides of what was once a porous border whose denizens were happy to exchange recipes and gather around campfires to sing the ballads that shaped Ronstadt’s musical heritage. Following her bestselling musical memoir, Simple Dreams, this book seamlessly braids together Ronstadt’s recollections of people and their passions in a region little understood in the rest of the United States. This road trip through the desert, written in collaboration with former New York Times writer Lawrence Downes and illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs by Bill Steen, features recipes for traditional Sonoran dishes and a bevy of revelations for Ronstadt’s admirers. If this book were a radio signal, you might first pick it up on an Arizona highway, well south of Phoenix, coming into the glow of Ronstadt’s hometown of Tucson. It would be playing something old and Mexican, from a time when the border was a place not of peril but of possibility.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2022 9:29:15 GMT -5
I will be buying it for sure, Kindle & hardcover both.
I hope we will have Linda still here, when its out.
I always wonder with assisted-authoring, how much of the original author, "raw" if you like, is in such books' writing.
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Post by MokyWI on Feb 12, 2022 10:30:04 GMT -5
I wouldn’t doubt Linda being here still when Feels Like Home/book is released.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Feb 12, 2022 12:38:38 GMT -5
Way morbid, HB. I think the amt a quote co-author writes or contributes depends on the project and the quote lead author. eddiejinnj
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Post by musedeva on Feb 12, 2022 14:32:26 GMT -5
Goddess Bless her!! What a Gift to the community AND to start a humane based dialogue about "border crossing" and who chooses just who to police one!!
This will lay plain all that was missing in the simple time dreams book I say.......would love to see a docu of it interspersed with her live Rancheria performances at the SB Bowl......
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2022 20:10:45 GMT -5
Way morbid, HB. I think the amt a quote co-author writes or contributes depends on the project and the quote lead author. eddiejinnj Realistic, but Linda is a wonder! It would be good for her to know she is getting funds from it too. I hope an audio book is released with the same reader as SDAMM had.
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Post by musedeva on Feb 14, 2022 15:11:53 GMT -5
I also hope we hear more about her ARTIST Daughter Mary........
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Post by fabtastique on Mar 4, 2022 1:31:13 GMT -5
Was anyone able to pre-order this from Amazon US?
It’s not on the U.K. Amazon store but when I tried to order via Amazon US it says they are not currently taking orders!
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Post by rick on Mar 4, 2022 2:16:01 GMT -5
The Fabtastique Sean —
On my Amazon App, it shows the cover but it says “Date Not Yet Available.” I’ll keep an eye on this.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 4, 2022 7:34:41 GMT -5
Thanks, Rick. I am anxious to read this book. I hope they have some photos we have not seen before. eddiejinfl
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2022 11:02:26 GMT -5
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Post by PoP80 on Mar 4, 2022 11:06:29 GMT -5
The cover photo is really cute! It captures the essence of Little Linda so well.
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Post by fabtastique on Mar 4, 2022 13:03:57 GMT -5
Lovely thanks ! I looked on Amazon U.K. and it wasn’t there - thanks for letting me know it’s now available ! Order placed 👍🏻😉
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Post by Guest of a Guest on Mar 4, 2022 17:20:32 GMT -5
Adore that cover. Little Linda at a local rodeo. Gotta get it on the homepage. Sounds like a wonderful follow-up to her memoir.
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Post by rick on Mar 4, 2022 23:23:41 GMT -5
Found it! It says October 4 is the release date, at least here in the U.S., for the hardcover of the book.
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Post by Dianna on Mar 5, 2022 4:51:58 GMT -5
The book sounds very interesting. Authentic Mexican recipes I'm sure of.. I have heard from a very reliable source Linda knows how to make homemade tamales and did make them with her family/kids. Looking forward to it!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2022 9:38:17 GMT -5
Found it! It says October 4 is the release date, at least here in the U.S., for the hardcover of the book. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> UK Kindle is that, but hard cover a month later. I hope an audio book will follow.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 5, 2022 11:27:38 GMT -5
I always loved that photo of Linda in the hat. It is weird how some people can look the same from a kid through adulthood and aging. I hope it will be on the bestseller's list. eddiejinfl
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