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Post by lovedxc on Sept 18, 2009 8:37:23 GMT -8
Thanks for all those pictures from now and then. this is one of the first I found while I was checking out Johny Cash videos and it blew me away and got me interested in her music.
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Post by erik on Sept 18, 2009 14:19:52 GMT -8
Yes, that appearance on Johnny Cash's show, from June 21, 1969, marked Linda's very first exposure to the country music audience (and vice versa).
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Post by lovedxc on Sept 19, 2009 6:18:43 GMT -8
Love is Rose by Neil Young.
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Post by erik on Sept 20, 2009 17:45:39 GMT -8
Although she's not a threat to the Chicks' Martie, here's Linda "fiddling" in 1973:
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Post by lovedxc on Sept 26, 2009 12:07:05 GMT -8
On what song(s) does she play fiddle??
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Post by erik on Sept 26, 2009 18:19:21 GMT -8
It's a Hoyt Axton composition called "Lightning Bar Blues", which she did in 1973 during the sessions for her album Don't Cry Now, but which was left off the album and didn't see the light of day until the release of the Linda Ronstadt Box Set on Elektra in 1999. She actually does a twin-fiddle thing with legendary Cajun fiddler Floyd "Gib" Gilbeau.
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Post by erik on Feb 10, 2010 7:54:04 GMT -8
Here are two pics of Linda from the January 16th pro-immigration rally in Phoenix:
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Post by erik on May 6, 2010 17:14:28 GMT -8
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Post by Tony on May 7, 2010 18:49:32 GMT -8
Thanks for the pics erik! One of my biggest regrets in not seeing Linda perform live........
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Post by erik on May 7, 2010 19:02:26 GMT -8
Quote by Tony:
Yes, the unfortunate thing is that Linda has never been wild about having to fly, even within the boundaries of the U.S.; and this was true well before 9/11.
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Post by lovedxc on May 19, 2010 2:41:53 GMT -8
Gorgeous picture of Linda
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Post by erik on May 19, 2010 6:12:46 GMT -8
Yes, that pic was taken during a recording session at Muscle Shoals sometime in the early fall of 1970. Linda was rumored at that time to be recording a mix of R&B and country songs for an album that unfortunately never materialized. She did have one minor non-album hit single from that session, "She's A Very Lovely Woman", which peaked at #70 in February 1971 (it's now available as a bonus track on the Australian import label Raven's compilation of Hand Sown, Home Grown and Silk Purse): Audio: The sound quality is better on the CD.
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Post by erik on Jan 14, 2012 21:01:44 GMT -8
Some more rarely (if ever) seen pics of Linda from the 1970s: Linda in Kansas City, doing some fine finger-picking (August 1975): Linda, the female country-rock troubadour (1974): At the Big Sur Folk Festival in Monterey, California (October 4, 1970): Linda with Joan Baez on the beach in Monterey (October 4, 1970):
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Post by jwaldorf on Jan 15, 2012 15:44:50 GMT -8
I dunno, personally, I think she was and still is a very lovely and talented lady.
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Post by erik on Jan 15, 2012 17:36:22 GMT -8
Quote by jwaldorf:
She is indeed, of course. It's unfortunate, though, that a lot of lies have been spread around in the media during the last decade about her health and her physical appearance, which have to do with a thyroid imbalance and not with "letting herself go." Most of those lies come from the right-wing media because of her unabashedly outspoken stances against Bush The Younger, and against civil rights abuses on Hispanics in her home state of Arizona. But she isn't one to back down, and she pretty much doesn't give a damn about what those right-wing idiots say about her, so More Power to her.
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Post by erik on Jan 28, 2012 21:15:55 GMT -8
And here's some more of Linda, from the 70s: A pic of her in concert in Florence, Alabama (October 1975): On the cover of CIAO, an Italian pop music magazine (1976):
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Post by erik on Feb 6, 2012 7:46:09 GMT -8
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Post by erik on May 8, 2012 10:38:32 GMT -8
Another one of Linda from '73:
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Post by erik on Dec 14, 2012 7:03:49 GMT -8
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Post by erik on Jan 7, 2013 16:07:20 GMT -8
Linda in recent times: Her memoir, Heart Like A Wheel, named for the 1974 album that made her an iconic figure, is scheduled for release sometime this year.
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Post by Tony on Jan 7, 2013 16:23:47 GMT -8
I'll just have to make sure that I get it !
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Post by erik on Feb 12, 2013 10:48:48 GMT -8
Linda at an appearance this past Sunday (February 10, 2013) at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, with the Rev. Jane Shaw (pictured here with her): Linda did a Q&A session of nearly an hour in length with the Rev. Shaw and the parishioners regarding her career, which she said she unfortunately had to end because of health problems that caused her singing voice to go. You can download the audio at this link here: www.gracecathedral.org/cathedral-life/worship/listen/detail.php?fid=173...by clicking on the right button of your mouse.
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Post by erik on Apr 16, 2013 6:13:12 GMT -8
Early pics of Linda: Linda, showing how good she is with kids and dogs (pic is from 1969, taken when she lived in Topanga Canyon): Linda still being the slightly countrified hippie (Topanga Canyon; August 1971): Extremely rare pics of Linda from 1971, fronting the band that would soon become the Eagles (pics taken from the recent Showtime documentary A History Of The Eagles): P.S.: The title of her memoir has now been changed to Simple Dreams (after her 1977 multi-Platinum album of that name), and is scheduled to be on the shelves on September 17th of this year.
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Post by Bingo on May 19, 2013 18:13:09 GMT -8
No photo, I'm afraid - but I thought it might be of of some interest that Elizabeth Cook tweeted a tribute tonight.
She said: "I would like for one of my lives to be a girl country singer in California in the 70's."
Then she posted a link to a sequence of Linda's performances of "When Will I Be Loved"
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Post by erik on May 20, 2013 6:27:44 GMT -8
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