Linda Ronstadt
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Interview by Tom Nolan, Phonograph Record, November 1974
IN 1970 DAN Wakefield, who had just published his first novel, Going All the Way (a heartbreakingly hilarious chronicle of America's dismal sex life in ...
Linda Ronstadt: Living In The U.S.A.
Review by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 30 September 1978
OVER HER PAST few albums and, curiously, ever since she won a wall full of awards, something has been happening to Linda Ronstadt's "interpretative" powers. ...
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Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages Audio, Fall 1976
Ms Ronstadt talks about being brought up surrounded by music; moving from Tucson to Los Angeles and forming the Stone Poneys; the hit she didn't like, 'Different Drum'; her struggles with managers and producers making her first solo albums; meeting the future Eagles at the Troubadour; the move from Capitol to Asylum; getting together with producer Peter Asher, and strongly identifying with fellow women singers like Emmylou, Dolly and Bonnie Raitt.
File format: mp3; file size: 44.2mb; Interview length: 46' 01"; sound quality: *****
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, Summer 1993
From his youth in '50s Baltimore to involvement with Linda Ronstadt and the Canyon Cowboys in '70s L.A., via Kim Fowley, his time at World Pacific and Capitol including producing the Beach Boys and much more: the music biz veteran tells the whole story.
File format: mp3; file size: 108.6mb, interview length: 1h 53' 09" sound quality: ***
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 7 February 1995
The First Lady of Counry Rock on a life in music: from Tuscon to LA; the Troubadour scene; hanging out with Jim Morrison and Gram Parsons; exploring standards and Mexican music; singing, production and producers.
File format: mp3; file size: 152.1mb, interview length: 2h 28' 27" sound quality: ***
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 18 October 2003
The singer-turned-producer talks about returning to Los Angeles with client James Taylor; the Troubadour scene; the people: Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, J.D. Souther; meeting Linda Ronstadt and being turned on to C&W; fellow businessmen David Geffen and Elliot Roberts, and the rise of the Eagles.
File format: mp3; file size: 59.1mb, interview length: 1h 01' 31" sound quality: ***
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Linda Ronstadt: Bitter End, New York NY
Live Review by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 9 August 1969
Bitter End Entranced By Linda Ronstadt ...
Arlo Guthrie, Linda Ronstadt: Civic Auditorium, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 17 August 1970
Singers Survive Frightful Sound ...
Linda Ronstadt: Get That Ronstadt Message
Report and Interview by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 20 February 1971
WELL, MY lady took the message, and she wrote it on the wall: "Linda Ronstadt, EMI Press Reception, 4 o'clock tomorrow." ...
Linda Ronstadt: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 9 May 1971
Bright Song Style Of Linda Ronstadt Lights Up Fillmore ...
Linda Ronstadt: Linda Ronstadt
Review by Ben Edmonds, Creem, April 1972
THIS PAST AUGUST, a friend and I braved the colorless bullshit of the Troubador in Los Angeles to catch a Linda Ronstadt set, supposedly being ...
The Eagles/Linda Ronstadt: Los Angeles
Live Review by David Rensin, Music World, January 1973
PERHAPS IT was the atmosphere of a college campus where the audience is usually reasonably intelligent and not prone to yelling "boogie" or "rock and ...
Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt: Winterland, Sand Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 22 March 1973
Neil Young: A Reminder of Mellower Days ...
Linda Ronstadt: Don't Cry Now (Asylum)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 10 November 1973
LOOKING AS she does, an impossibly cuddly chicklet, it's easy to forgive Linda Ronstadt any musical deficiencies. But this album, in fact her first on ...
Linda Ronstadt: Linda's Liberation
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 24 November 1973
WHEN THE film industry was at its peak and the Hollywood Hills beamed down on the Babylon city in its celluloid wrapper, someone decided that ...
Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, December 1973
WELL, 1973 IS gone and a new year is upon us. The only reason I mention that is because some of you are so dunced-out ...
Linda Ronstadt: Ronstadt Country
Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 16 February 1974
TIME WAS when being a country music fan was difficult going. You could secretly dig people like Dolly Parton or Charlie Rich but it wasn't ...
Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like A Wheel (Capitol)
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 25 January 1975
LINDA RONSTADT is a remarkable Country Rock singer who sells plenty of records, with Capitol reportedly shifting 150,000 copies of this new one in the ...
Linda Ronstadt, Roger McGuinn: Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 7 February 1975
Linda returns as a superstar ...
Review by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, April 1975
OVER RECENT months those familiar figures, the singer/songwriter and the solo artist have made their reappearance on the scene. But if you cast your eyes ...
Linda Ronstadt: Prisoner In Disguise
Review by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, October 1975
AN UNHEALTHY PORTION of the attention devoted to Linda Ronstadt over the years has dealt with her supposed physical attributes at the expense of her ...
Linda Ronstadt: Prisoner In Disguise
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 11 October 1975
MAYBE IT'S the singer not the song but in the particular case of Linda Ronstadt it is both. Plagued by an unsympathetic selection of material ...
Linda Ronstadt: 'Heat Wave' – The Long Hot Sessions
Report and Interview by Todd Everett, Rolling Stone, 18 December 1975
"THE BAND HAD been trying to get Linda to add it to her set for quite a while," recalls pianist Andrew Gold, "but we never ...
Linda Ronstadt: Hasten Down The Wind (Asylum)
Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 21 August 1976
LINDA RONSTADT has taken a tip from Carly Simon and taken off her bra for an album sleeve – not that she ever did wear ...
Linda Ronstadt: Hasten Down The Wind (Asylum) ****
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 21 August 1976
I GREETED the release of this album with the same kind of anticipation one would associate with a new album from the Who or the ...
Linda Ronstadt: Hand Sewn Home Grown
Profile and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 4 September 1976
THE FIRST I heard of Linda Ronstadt was on the radio. Not that I knew who owned those strong vocal chords. All I knew was ...
Linda Ronstadt, Andrew Gold: Odeon, Birmingham
Live Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 13 November 1976
Linda warms to a Heatwave ...
Linda Ronstadt: Hey, Mister That's Me Up On The Jukebox
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 20 November 1976
AT ONE O'CLOCK on a foggy Thursday afternoon, Linda Ronstadt sleeps comfortably on the Glasgow/London express. She does not like to fly. Neither does her ...
Linda Ronstadt: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 20 November 1976
THE VIEW from the stalls at the New Victoria last Saturday night was great, but seen through the lens of a low budget Kodak Instamatic ...
Linda Ronstadt: Greatest Hits (Asylum)*****
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 25 December 1976
THIS ALBUM is great. Had it been live, it would have been even greater. The twelve tracks here represent some of the very best Linda ...
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 24 September 1977
THESE DAYS Linda Ronstadt works to a production line formula: You get a nice sleeve (this one is by Kosh, who did a similar job ...
Linda Ronstadt Listens To Your Sleep
Interview by Barbara Charone, Circus, 27 October 1977
Simple Dreams Is The Rock Queen's Latest Treasure ...
Review by Fred Schruers, Crawdaddy!, November 1977
WHEN LINDA Ronstadt dropped her hands down the mike-stand and went to make some small talk with the audience at a New York concert early ...
Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Bishop: Munn Arena, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Bill Holdship, Michigan State News, 14 November 1977
Ronstadt: golden dream for Tarnished Age ...
All Linda Ronstadt Needs Is The Lurv Of A Good Man
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 7 January 1978
JUST AFTER midnight a large coach pulls up outside a respectable New York City Hotel, precariously perched on the right side of Central Park. Assorted ...
Linda Ronstadt, Female Vocalist of the Year
Profile by John Swenson, Circus, 16 February 1978
At the top in Her Field, She Becomes an American Heroine ...
Linda Ronstadt: Living In The USA (Asylum)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 30 September 1978
LINDA RONSTADT – oh my God, she's so hunky. Those long, bronzed legs, that Ms Piggy face, those capable fingers – is it any wonder ...
Linda Ronstadt: Living In The U.S.A.
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 7 October 1978
HI AGAIN. It's only me and this is only another Linda Ronstadt review. The words 'rock and roll' are used in the ads for this ...
Linda Ronstadt: The Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by Stephen K. Peeples, L.A. Weekly, 4 January 1979
Linda Ronstadt: Going Strong ...
Linda Ronstadt: America's Sex Valentine
Profile by Al Aronowitz, Gallery, February 1979
I KNOW AN eighteen-year-old genius named Jimmy Dunbar who thinks the ultimate prize in the ultimate contest would be a weekend with Linda Ronstadt. Not ...
Linda Ronstadt: The Forum, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 10 February 1979
GOING TO a Linda Ronstadt concert, apart from finding yourself in the midst of unbridled passionate devotion like a born-again fanatics convention, is like sitting ...
Lowell George: Festive Wake for an Enigma
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 August 1979
"I FEEL LIKE I'm in an old MGM photo," cracked Bonnie Raitt as she and the other participants in tonight's "Tribute to Lowell George" concert ...
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 August 1979
Concert Tribute to Lowell George ...
Live Review by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 11 August 1979
IT'S IRONIC that Little Feat were never adjudged sufficiently commercial to have headlined a concert at Los Angeles' massive Forum, since the place was bursting ...
Linda Ronstadt: Mad Love (Asylum) *
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 23 February 1980
ROBERTSON DIDN'T want to do it. He'd reviewed the last eighty-five Linda Ronstadt albums or some such totally dubious excuse he made up on the ...
Linda Ronstadt: Confessions of an LA Bunnywoman
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 19 February 1983
IN THE MOUNTAIN of scorn heaped on the Los Angeles musical community, nobody has been maligned more than Linda Ronstadt. The vapid esteem she was ...
Linda Ronstadt: Performing Is Not My Gift
Report and Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, TV Guide, May 1984
SHE LOOKS SO darling, standing there on a Santa Barbara, Cal., stage in front of Nelson Riddle and his 43-piece orchestra, ready for the first ...
Ronstadt's Rainstorm Of Emotion
Interview by Holly Gleason, CD Review, March 1990
LINDA RONSTADT enters the press room at a trade magazine's office in Los Angeles with her five-person entourage, and immediately manages to find familiar territory ...
Ronstadt Proves She Can Go Home Again
Profile and Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 March 1995
LINDA RONSTADT settled comfortably into a couch in her record company offices. The cream-colored ensemble she was wearing emphasized her preternaturally translucent skin. She has ...
Homecoming Queen: Linda Ronstadt
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, April 1995
Thirty years ago Linda Ronstadt left Tucson for the folk-rock Mecca of Los Angeles. Now the first lady of softly streamlined country returns to the ...
Linda Ronstadt: Feels Like Home (Elektra; CD and cassette)
Review by Holly Gleason, The New York Times, 9 April 1995
Linda Ronstadt Comes Full Circle ...
Linda Ronstadt on Emmylou: And Then There Were Two…
Interview by Bill DeYoung, Goldmine, 2 August 1996
CHRIS HILLMAN, who'd introduced Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons, played matchmaker another time: Backstage at a concert in Texas, he put the newcomer together with ...
The Linda Ronstadt Interview: Tucson, Arizona, 17 June 1998
Interview by Debbie Kruger, unpublished, June 1998
DK: You are a performer who has covered the most diverse range of genres in popular music, and they are all listed on your bio ...
Linda Ronstadt: Everlasting Linda
Profile and Interview by Debbie Kruger, Weekend Australian, 18 July 1998
IT'S SUMMER IN TUCSON, around 38° C, and Linda Ronstadt is sanguine about the waterlilies sprouting in her pond. The rest of the grounds are ...
Interview by Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, April 1999
"I ALWAYS found the studio a fascinating place," says producer Peter Asher, "and the process of assembling a track and figuring out what each musician ...
The Everly Sisters: Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
Interview by Bill DeYoung, Goldmine, 24 September 1999
IT TOOK more than 25 years, two divergent careers and plenty of false starts, near-misses and might-have-beens, but Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris have finally ...
The Eagles/Jackson Browne/Linda Ronstadt: Live at Staples Center, Los Angeles
Live Review by Erik Himmelsbach, Rolling Stone, 17 February 2000
THE KINGS of Country Rock have been on ice for the better part of two decades. Still, they earned most of their reported $7 million ...
Home At Last: The Journey of Linda Ronstadt
Profile and Interview by Bill DeYoung, Goldmine, 21 February 2003
THERE ARE many things about her career that Linda Ronstadt wishes she'd done differently. Still, the most successful female singer of the rock 'n' roll ...
Play It as It Lays: David Geffen and Asylum Records
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Hotel California' (4th Estate), 2005
This is an excerpt from Barney Hoskyns' Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the L.A. Canyons (Fourth Estate, 2005) ...
Big Tit Sue and Bigger Tit Sue: Torrid Tales of the Troubadour
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Hotel California', 2006
UP ON THE Sunset Strip, the live scene was hurting. Name bands were now too big to play small clubs like the Whisky: they'd be ...
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Capitol 75' (Taschen), 2016
NOTE: Herewith the full "director's cut" version of the historical essay I contributed to the spectacularly lavish Taschen book marking the 75th anniversary of West ...
Linda Ronstadt and Jerry Wexler on Unreleased 1981 Album Keeping Out of Mischief
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, stephenkpeeples.com, 30 September 2019
The well-received September 2019 theatrically released film documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice altogether skipped Keeping Out of Mischief, the unreleased album of ...
see also Eagles, The
see also Stone Poneys, The
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