La Calandria
Telling Me Lies
To Know Him Is to Love Him
My Dear Companion
I’ve Had Enough
Poor Wandering One
I Want a Horse
Winter Light
When I Grow Too Old to Dream
It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
Try Me Again
Desperado
I Keep It Hid
Goodbye My Friend
Adios
7. LINDA RONSTADT—BOX SET—RHINO—1997
Disk 1:
When We Ran
Ruler of My Heart
Cry Till My Tears Run Dry
We Will Rock You Winter Light Anyone Who Had a Heart
I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) Do What You Gotta Do Heartbeats Accelerating
Goodbye My Friend
Adios
Cry Like a Rainstorm
Trouble Again
Easy for You to Say
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Get Closer
Hurt So Bad
I Can’t Let Go
Ooh Baby Baby
Just One Look
Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Disk 2:
Blue Bayou
Try Me Again
Heat Wave
Heart Like a Wheel
It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
You’re No Good
When Will I Be Loved
Long Long Time
Different Drum
Little Girl Blue
I Get Along Without You Very Well My Funny Valentine
When You Wish Upon a Star
It Never Entered My Mind
Skylark
What’s New
Quiéreme Mucho Frenesí Mentira Salome
La Mariquita
El Crucifijo de Piedra
Disk 3:
High Sierra (with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris) Lover’s Return (with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris) The Blue Train (with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris) Feels Like Home (with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris) Gentle Annie (with Kate and Anna McGarrigle) Please Remember Me (with Aaron Neville) After the Gold Rush (with Valerie Carter and Emmylou Harris) Moonlight in Vermont (with Frank Sinatra) El Camino (with Pete and Mike Ronstadt) All My Life (with Aaron Neville) Don’t Know Much (with Aaron Neville) Back in the U.S.A. (with Chuck Berry) El Sol Que Tu Eres (with Danny Valdez) Telling Me Lies (with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris) Somewhere Out There (with James Ingram) I Think It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (with James Taylor) I Never Will Marry (with Dolly Parton) Prisoner in Disguise (with J. D. Souther) Faithless Love (with J. D. Souther) I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still In Love With You) (with Emmylou Harris) Disk 4: Gainesville
Sandman’s Coming
My Hero
All I Have to Do Is Dream (with Kermit the Frog) Dreams to Dream The Blacksmith
Bandit and a Heartbreaker
Keep Me from Blowing Away
The Sweetest Gift Freezing Poor Wandering One
Sorry Her Lot
I Want a Horse
All That You Dream
Hearts Against the Wind
Tumbling Dice
Border Town
Falling Star
Honky Tonk Blues
Lightning Bar Blues
Why
I’d Like to Know
Everybody Has Their Own Ideas
8. LINDA RONSTADT—THE VERY BEST OF LINDA RONSTADT—RHINO—2002
When Will I Be Loved
Heat Wave
You’re No Good
It’s So Easy
Blue Bayou
Just One Look
Different Drum
Poor Poor Pitiful Me
The Tracks of My Tears
That’ll Be the Day
Ooh Baby Baby
Long Long Time
Back in the U.S.A.
Love Is a Rose
Hurt So Bad
Heart Like a Wheel
Adios
Somewhere Out There
Don’t Know Much
All My Life Winter Light
9. LINDA RONSTADT—JARDÍN AZUL: LAS CANCIONES FAVORITAS—RHINO—2004
La Charreada
Rogaciano el Huapanguero
Cuando Me Querías Tú
Lo Siento mi Vida
Mi Ranchito
La Cigarra
Perfidia (Spanish version)
Siempre Hace Frio
La Mariquita
Quiéreme Mucho
Verdad Amarga
Por Un Amor
El Sol Que Tú Eres
Tata Dios
Adónde Voy
Mentira Salomé
Piel Canela
Hay Unos Ojos
El Crucifijo de Piedra
© ROCKY SCHENK
LINDA RONSTADT, one of the iconic voices of our era, has received twelve Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, and one Emmy Award, as well as several Tony and Golden Globe nominations. She has sold more than 100 million records and toured all over the world. Ronstadt has collaborated with legends such as Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Aaron Neville, J. D. Souther, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Bette Midler, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Webb, and David Lindley as well as with Homer Simpson and Kermit the Frog. By the time she retired in 2009, she was one of the most revered singers in the world, becoming the first female artist in popular music history to release four consecutive platinum albums. She lives in San Francisco with her family.
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Index
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Academy of Country Music Award, 111
accordion building, 193, 195
Adderley, Cannonball, 64–65
Adderley, Nat, 65
Adieu False Heart, 195
“Adieu False Heart,” 195
“Adios,” 183–84
Adler, Lou, 83
Agua Linda ranch, 15
“Ah, Leave Me Not to Pine,” 127
Ahbez, Eden, 102
Ahern, Brian, 84
alcohol use, 44–47, 78, 80–82, 103, 139, 160
“All I Have to Do Is Dream,” 129
“All My Life,” 188
“Alma Llanera,” vii
Almeida, Laurindo, 30
Almost Famous, 39
American art song, 55–56
American Standards, 29, 73, 128, 142, 182, 192
with J. Wexler, 142–47, 147, 148
with Nelson Riddle, 151–61
American Stars ’n Bars, 100
American traditional music, 105–10
“Angel Band,” 87
“angel dust” (PCP), 104
Apple Records, 66
Area Code 615, 54
“Arianne,” 185–87
Arizona, LR’s residence in, 195
Arizona, University of, 2, 27, 31–32
Armstrong, Louis, 142
Ash Alley coffeehouse, 27
Asher, Betsy, 66, 89
Asher, Jane, 66
Asher, Peter, 66–67, 83, 88–89, 88, 93, 95–97, 131, 137–39, 145–47, 148–50, 152, 155, 157, 173, 180, 184, 185, 188
Ash Grove coffeehouse, 30–32, 36, 40
Asylum Records, 61, 146
LR’s contract with, 75–76, 89, 109
Atlanta, Ga., 118–19
Auldridge, Mike, 87
Austen, Jane, 193
Autry, Gene, 176
“Ave Maria” (Schubert), 19, 188–89
Azito, Tony, 133, 147
Back Bay Theater, 45
Bailey, Mildred, 6, 144
Ballet Folklorico Paso del Norte, 197
Band, 75
“Barca de Guaymas, La,” 175
Baum, L. Frank, 12
B-Bender guitar, 49
Beach Boys, 29, 40, 102, 183–84
Beachwood Drive, LR’s residence at, 71–76, 95, 121
Beastie Boys, 109
“Beast of Burden,” 138
Beat Generation, 27, 103
Beatles, 66, 96, 146, 152
Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s (Friedrich), 121–22
Beltrán, Lola, 25–26, 163–64, 170
Bennett, Tony, 24
Bergman, Ingmar, 138
Berlin, Irving, 151, 154
Beverly Hillbillies, 35, 60
“Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” 182
Big Brother and the Holding Company, 46
Billboard charts, 97, 157
“Billie Jean,” 74
Bitter End, 53, 66, 117
Black, Ed, 57, 80
Blackburn, Dan, 104–5
“Blue Bayou,” 63, 126, 128, 179
bluegrass music, 29, 32, 42, 49, 69, 86, 92, 106–7
Blue Sky Boys, 27
Boarding House, 58
Bohème, La (Puccini), 20, 121, 164–68, 172, 181
Bojanna (classmate), 18–19
Bond, Jimmy, 42–43
Bon Jovi, 109
Bonoff, Karla, 181
Boone, Debbie, 160
Boone, Pat, 160
Boston, Mass., 41, 45
Boston Globe, 27
Boudreau, Robin, 135
“Boulder to Birmingham,” 83–84
Bowie, David, 122
Boylan, John, 61, 63–65, 66–67, 69–70, 75–76, 77, 79, 80–81, 89, 100, 144
Brady Memorial Auditorium, 197
Broadbent, Alan, 192
Bromberg, David, 53–54
Brown, Clifford, 143
Brown, Jerry, 111–12, 124, 159–61, 171
Brown, Ray, 156
Browne, Jackson, 61–63, 66, 76, 89–91, 100, 121
Browne, Phyllis, 62
Bruce, Lenny, 38
Bryant, Felice and Boudleaux, 87
Buckley, Lord, 27
Buckley, Tim, 35, 39, 40
Burdon, Eric, 65
Burton, James, 85
“Bury Me Beneath the Willow,” 106
Byrds, 32, 49, 50, 79
Cafe Au Go Go, 41, 46, 53–55
Café des Artistes, 164–65
Cajun music, 192–95
California:
country rock music in, 57–67
homes threatened by flooding in, 111–12
LR in, 32–33, 35–47, 48, 60, 83–84, 89, 99–113, 145, 168
Callas, Maria, 24, 26
Campbell, David, 95
Campbell, Glen, 64, 176
Canciones de Mi Padre, 5, 174
Canciones de Mi Padre tour, 169–80, 169, 181
Cano, Nati, 171–72
Capitol Records, 39, 40, 43, 48, 63, 75–76, 89, 95
Capitol Records Tower, 40
Capitol Theater, Passaic, 88–89, 106
Capp, Al, 3
Carlin, George, 117
Carmen (Bizet), 13
Carnegie Hall, 89
Carter, Betty, 144
Carter Family, 99, 106
Casado, Lucy and Frank, 171
Casado, Patricia, 171
Casals, Pablo, 73
Cash, Johnny, 50, 112, 176
Cassidy, Hopalong (char.), 12–13, 176
Castro, Fidel, 38
Catalina Mountains, 10
Catholic school, 15–19, 160, 187–88
Cavern Café, 2
Cellar Door, 69
Celtic music, 99
Central Park, 157
Public Theater in, 122–23, 134–37
Charles, Ray, 24, 143, 194
charreada, 177–78
charro suits, 176
Chenier, Clifton, 91
chest voice, 24, 157
Chorus Line, A, 123
Christy, June, 142
Chulo (horse), 177–78
Civil Rights Act (1964), 28
Clapton, Eric, 112
classical music, 13, 20, 73, 182
Clockwork Orange, A, 125
Clooney, Rosemary, 14, 146, 152, 153–54, 157, 159–61
Club 47, 41
Club Filarmónico Tucsonense, 4, 195
cocaine, 103
coffeehouses, 28–30, 38, 40
Cohen, Herb, 37–40, 44, 45, 49–53, 60, 63–66, 76
Cohen, Leonard, 55
Cohen, Martin, 64–65
Cohn, Al, 144
Cole, Nat “King,” 24, 102, 152
Colette, 119, 123
“Collar de Perlas,” 199
“Columbus Stockade Blues, The,” 24
comedy, 58, 72, 117, 133, 138
“Come On-a My House,” 146
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, 99
Complex studio, 148, 152
computer-automated mixing, 148
Congo, rebellion in, 38
Connor, Chris, 142, 143
Cooder, Ry, 32, 109, 112, 164
Cooper, Roberta, 192
Copeman, Lloyd G., 2–3
Coronado, Rafael Bolívar, vii
Corvettes, 57
costumes, 45, 46, 56, 74, 84, 100
Mexican, 162, 163–64, 176–77, 180
vintage, 31, 119, 122, 125, 126–28, 135, 156, 193
country music, 49, 69, 81, 84, 87, 97, 99, 109–11
country rock music, 49–50, 57–67, 69–70, 75, 84–85
Coury, Al, 95
cowboy clothing, 176
Craft, Paul, 92
“Crazy Arms,” 49
Crazy Horse, 81
Cream, 116
Creole music, 186, 193, 194
Crosby, Bing, 6, 14
Crosby, Stills, and Nash, 61
Crowe, Cameron, 39
Crowell, Rodney, 85
“Cry Like a Rainstorm,” 185
Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind, 183
Cuevas, Manuel, 84, 176
Cynthia Plaster Caster, 39–40
Dallas Opera, 26
Dane, Barbara, 29
Daniele, Graciela, 133
David, Jackson and John, 171
David, Keith, 134–35
Davies, Gail, 84
Davis, Clive, 75
Dedicated to the One I Love, 191
Delacorte Theater, 122, 134–35
de los Angeles, Victoria, 164, 167
Densmore, John, 44
Des Barres, Pamela (Miss Pamela), 39
desert:
dangerous environment of, 6–7, 10–11
rain in, 1, 6–7, 9, 111
DeShannon, Jackie, 78
Devil Is a Woman, The, 4
Diddley, Bo, 62, 186
Dietrich, Marlene, 4
“Different Drum,” 42–45, 48
DiPaolo, Dante, 160
Disneyland, 74
“Dixie Chicken,” 85
Domino, Fats, 24
“Don’t Bogart That Joint,” 72
Don’t Cry Now, 89
“Don’t Know Much,” 188
Don’t Look Back, 45
“Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder),” 183
Doors, 44–47
Douglas, Jerry, 87
D’Oyly Carte, 127
“Drown in My Own Tears,” 73
Drucker, Eugene, 192
drug use, 38, 60, 72, 78, 81–82, 85, 103, 104–5, 160
Duets with the Spanish Guitar, 30
Dugmore, Dan, 114
Dylan, Bob, 25, 29, 42, 45, 75, 146
Eagles, 50, 61, 68, 69–70, 74, 75, 88–89, 110, 171
Earth, Wind &
Fire, 93
Easy Rider, 72
Edwards, Kenny, 31–32, 36–37, 42–44, 48, 96, 109
Eldridge, Ben, 87
Elliott, Bill, 125–26, 133, 141
Emerson String Quartet, 192
Emmons, Buddy, 61
Epic Records, 89
Epoca de Oro, La, 173
Ertegun, Ahmet and Nesuhi, 143
Espinel, Luisa (Aunt Luisa), 4–5, 30–31, 172
Estes, Sleepy John, 30
Estrada, Elsa, 172
Europe, promotional tour in, 118, 119
Evangeline Made, 195
Evans, Dale, 176
Everett, Betty, 96
Everly Brothers, 25
“Faithless Love,” 72
Farlow, Tal, 144
Faust (Newman), 191
Feats Don’t Fail Me Now, 93
feminists, 28
Fender telecaster, 49
Ferrer, Monsita, 160
Ferrington, Danny, 112–13
Filmore East, 45–47
First Step coffeehouse, 28, 29, 31
Fisher, Jules, 175
Fitzgerald, Ella, 142, 152
flamenco, 13
Flanagan, Tommy, 144
flash floods, 6–7, 111
Flatt and Scruggs, 27
flu epidemic, 91–92
Flying Burrito Brothers, 50, 57–59, 69, 79, 84, 117, 176
folk music, 26–33, 36, 38, 40–42, 49, 193
For Sentimental Reasons, 159
Fox Tucson Theater, 3
France, 26, 118, 186
Francis Mary, Sister, 18–19
Frank & Earnest (car), 9, 11, 16
Franklin, Aretha, 143
Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, 29, 73, 148, 152
Fraternity of Man, 72
free love, 37, 52
Frenesí, 191
Frey, Glenn, 62–63, 68, 69–70, 100
Friedrich, Otto, 121
Frizzell, Lefty, 24
F. Ronstadt Hardware Company, 1–2, 5–6
Fudge, Alan, 28–31, 73
Fuentes, Rubén, 170–74, 180
Garay, Val, 96–97, 148
García Lorca, Federico, 4–5
García Márquez, Gabriel, 199
Geffen, David, 35, 60–61, 75–76, 77, 83, 95, 143, 146
George, Bobby and Susie, 200
George, Lowell, 85–86, 91–93
Germany, 118, 122, 158
Gershwin, George and Ira, 128, 154, 157
Get Closer, 122, 148, 152
Gilded Palace of Sin, The, 84
Gil Ronstadt and his Star-Spangled Megaphone, 3
Glaub, Bob, 185
Gold, Andrew, 89, 96–97
Gold, Max, 102
Goodlettsville String Quartet, 54
Gordon, Jimmy, 42
Grace Cathedral, 189
Graceland, 101
Graham, Bill, 45–47
Graham, David, 28–29, 31
Grammy awards, 110, 127, 174, 188–89, 191
Grand Ole Opry, 100
Great American Songbook, 142–50, 157
Great Britain, 118
Great Depression, 1, 5–6
Greenbriar Boys, 42
Greenwich Village, 46, 53–54, 131
Gregory, Cynthia, 174–75
Grolnick, Don, 156
Grossman, Albert, 75