Originally posted December 2017. Here she sings “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” This is from her 2000 album “A Merry Little Christmas”. It should come as no surprise that it had the highest sales of all holiday albums released that year. It took her a long time to record a holiday album, and she chose …
From a 1994 TV special entitled Aaron Neville’s Christmas in New Orleans, here’s “Silent Night”. Neville and Linda Ronstadt performed several glorious duets on her 1989 album “Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind”, and they reunited here on this show from his hometown. From Wikipedia: The song was first performed on Christmas Eve …
An excellent documentary, as many reviewers agree. Now I’m debating finding the DVDs for the recent “Echo in the Canyon” doc about the music scene which developed in Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and the David Crosby doc “Remember My Name.”
She wrote three songs which appeared on Linda Ronstadt’s Hasten Down the Wind album way back in 1976, but she’s also a singer in her own right. She, Kenny Edwards, Andrew Gold and Wendy Waldman formed Bryndle and released several albums over its life. All four were (Gold and Edwards died several years ago) and …
Have some Aaron Neville. This is from his 1993 album “Aaron Neville’s Soulful Christmas”. The first time I heard his name and kept it in my head was when he sang four duets on Linda Ronstadt’s 1989 “Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind album. Besides his solo work he’s worked with his brothers …
Linda Ronstadt live at the Stadthalle in Offenbach, Germany in 1976. Here are the personnel and the setlist.
But this time it’s just the song. I had no idea Linda Ronstadt had recorded the old Knickerbockers song, but here it is. This is the official video version. It never appeared on an album she released, as far as I can tell from my collection.
This comes from a 1999 compilation album entitled Sing America. It’s very good, but I can’t help thinking it was clearly released before the last 17 years of argument about what America is and what it should be, which has now brought us to Trump. Here’s the track listing: 1. Fanfare For The Common Man …
Today this 3-CD set is being released. It’s a re-release of the first two Trio albums Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt recorded in 1987 and 1999 and a third bonus disc with over twenty unreleased tracks and alternate takes from the first two recording sessions. The initial album was released in March 1987. …
From the 1946 movie of the same name, here’s Bing Crosby singing “Blue Skies.” 26 years later, here are The Allman Brothers performing “Blue Sky.” Five years after that, Linda Ronstadt sang “Blue Bayou.” Ten years earlier, Paul Mauriat recorded an orchestral version of a Eurovision 4th-place finisher called “Love is Blue.” It hit the …