It’s been 10 years since Linda Ronstadt wrapped up her career as a performer with a show at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, but she still vividly remembers how she felt that night. “I saw every concert I ever sang,” she says on the phone from San Francisco, where the singer been living a quiet life since becoming diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2012. “They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die. But it does when you retire from singing, too.”
Ronstadt has maintained a...
Ronstadt has maintained a...
- 9/4/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Like many hopeful young singers, Linda Ronstadt arrived in Los Angeles in the early ’60s with big dreams of making it in the city’s burgeoning folk rock scene. The Arizona native was just 18 years old when she made the jump, leaving behind her beloved family in Tucson to join up with her old friend Bobby Kimmel and form the Stone Poneys alongside guitarist Kenny Edwards. Ronstadt would go on to have a massive career, becoming one of America’s first female solo pop stars, while also churning out folk and country hits, crafting the best-selling non-English-language album in American music history, and taking up opera in her late thirties. She is, in short, the kind of multi-talented star that is impossible to pigeonhole or slow down.
All of this information is delivered during the opening moments of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,...
All of this information is delivered during the opening moments of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,...
- 4/27/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
“I feel if I were to organize it correctly I would try to sing like a Mexican and think like a German. You know what I mean? I get it mixed up,” Linda Ronstadt joked to Rolling Stone in 1978. The quip was a comical reference to her Mexican-German heritage but also, in retrospect, a reflection of Ronstadt’s many musical influences and interests, along with the self-deprecating humor she has employed throughout more than five decades of music stardom. Born in July 1946 in Tucson, Arizona, where her father, Gilbert, the...
- 2/7/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Thirty-nine years ago next month, Linda Ronstadt released Mad Love, her tenth LP as a solo artist. Ronstadt had previously topped both the pop and country singles charts respectively with high-spirited takes on “You’re No Good” and “When Will I Be Loved,” but Mad Love put the singer in new-wave rock & roll territory. While it’s actually one of her most adventurously vibrant efforts – not to mention Grammy-nominated and her seventh straight million-seller – reviews of the album were decidedly mixed.
Nonetheless, when young pay-cable company Home Box Office came...
Nonetheless, when young pay-cable company Home Box Office came...
- 1/30/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Los Angeles (AP) — Kenny Edwards, an original member of the Stone Poneys country-rock band and longtime collaborator with singer-songwriters Linda Ronstadt and Karla Bonoff, has died in California at age 64. A statement on his website says he died Wednesday. The Los Angeles Times reports Edwards was hospitalized earlier this month in Denver after collapsing while on tour with Bonoff. He was airlifted to a hospital near his home in Santa Barbara where he died. After the Stone Poneys disbanded after their 1967 breakthrough hit "Different Drum," Edwards formed the folk-rock band Bryndle with singer-songwriter Wendy Waldman, Bonoff and Andrew...
- 8/23/2010
- by AP Staff
- Hitfix
Stone Poneys star Kenny Edwards has died at the age of 64. The country musician passed away on Wednesday, August 18 just weeks after he was hospitalized in Denver, Colorado. The guitarist/singer, who battled cancer and a blood disorder in recent years, collapsed while on tour with his long time collaborator Karla Bonoff and was air-lifted to a hospital near his home in Santa Barbara, California prior to his death, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Edwards shot to fame after founding the Stone Poneys in the 1960s, the group which launched Linda Ronstadt's career, but the band disbanded shortly after the release of its breakthrough hit, "Different Drum". He went on to form the folk-rock band Bryndle with Bonoff and later worked as a singer/songwriter and guitarist for numerous acts including Stevie Nicks and Don Henley, before releasing his debut solo album in 2002.
Ronstadt has paid tribute to her former bandmate,...
Edwards shot to fame after founding the Stone Poneys in the 1960s, the group which launched Linda Ronstadt's career, but the band disbanded shortly after the release of its breakthrough hit, "Different Drum". He went on to form the folk-rock band Bryndle with Bonoff and later worked as a singer/songwriter and guitarist for numerous acts including Stevie Nicks and Don Henley, before releasing his debut solo album in 2002.
Ronstadt has paid tribute to her former bandmate,...
- 8/21/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Ever since the enormous success of Heart Like a Wheel four years ago, Linda Ronstadt has been by far America’s best-known female rock singer. Before that epochal album, her first with producer/manager Peter Asher, she had enjoyed moderate popularity as a country-rocker and a pop music sex symbol and had had a few hit singles, most notably “Different Drum” and “Long, Long Time.” But she was not a household word.
She is now. She’s had four platinum albums in the last four years, her newest, Living in the U.
She is now. She’s had four platinum albums in the last four years, her newest, Living in the U.
- 10/19/1978
- by Peter Herbst
- Rollingstone.com
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