She may have lost her voice, but we haven’t lost the memory of the amazing talent that is Linda Ronstadt. Due to popular demand, we will run last Tuesdays show again this Tuesday, with additional music and interviews. Tune in next Tuesday for 2 hours of Linda’s continued legacy, live on Laurel Canyon Radio.
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Yes this is one amazing Linda Ronstadt cover by singer/songwriter Alice Wallace, a powerhouse musician in her own right. Her debut album “Into The Blue” was everything you could want from a Laurel Canyon devotee, and this bonus cover just adds to her delightful bonafides! Enjoy!
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CNN Films November 12th, 2019 CNN FILMS Debuts Critics’ Choice Documentary Award Winner ‘LINDA RONSTADT: The Sound of My Voice’ on New Year’s Day The Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Documentary Broadcasts 9:00pm ET&PT Linda Ronstadt soared to the top of the music scene in the late 1960s, and remained there for nearly five decades. Her cross-genre songbook packed arenas, racked up […]
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Different Drum: The Power of Linda Ronstadt’s Voice By Sarah Larson August 26, 2013 On Saturday, we learned that Linda Ronstadt, who is sixty-seven, has Parkinson’s disease, and that one effect of this is that she can no longer sing. It’s incredibly sad news. This seems as good a time as any to reflect on Ronstadt’s greatness, which might cheer us […]
Read moreBack to the Garden WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2006 AT 12 P.M. BY STEFFIE NELSON 4 Roxy (and Troubadour) music: Stills, Young, Greg Reeves, Dallas Taylor and Nash rehearsing for Woodstock, 1969 (Photos by Henry Diltz) Money may not buy you love, but $2.4 million can buy you prime real estate on “Love Street” — as in the song Jim Morrison […]
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Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons, 1967-1976 by Barney Hoskyns 316pp, Fourth Estate, £14.99 The subtitle may sound like a specialist subject on Mastermind. But if you are looking for the ingredients traditionally required of a good rock’n’roll story, then Hotel California has got the lot. Diving deep into the mythology of the Los Angeles singer-songwriter […]
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Why Linda Ronstadt Still Matters to Tucson A Tucson music historian reflects on the lasting influence of our city’s most famous musical export By Daniel Buckley Linda Ronstadt at age 16. Linda Ronstadt’s singing days are over but her hometown’s love affair with the storied singer is anything but. And that love affair goes both ways. She still owns a […]
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In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and ‘70s. Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose forty-five year career has encompassed a wide array of musical styles, weaves together a captivating story […]
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March 25, 2015 by Jon Patrick Laurel Canyon Daze The epic tales of Laurel Canyon’s heyday continues to linger like the warm smell of colitas rising up through the air… It’s here that the SoCal sound was born out of an era of relaxed morals, folks expanding their mental horizons (drugs), and a wave of eclectic misfits coming from all […]
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