In 2007, Ronstadt was the headline performer at the famous Newport Folk Festival, one of her final public performances. Ronstadt toured to support the album, but both the tour and album were her last, as she had begun to lose her singing ability. In 2006, Ronstadt collaborated with Ann Savoy for the album Adieu False Heart, and earned yet another Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Folk Album. Although she did little to promote the album, it still reached #2 on the Jazz Albums chart. In 2004, Ronstadt released the album Hummin' to Myself, her only album of traditional jazz. James had played the glass harmonica on Linda's albums Winter Light, Feels Like Home, and Dedicated to the One I Love. In 2002, Linda was co-producer of Cristal-Glass Music Through the Ages, a classical music album using glass instruments with Dennis James. Ronstadt joined her former backing group, the Eagles, and Jackson Browne in concert to celebrate the end-of-the millennium on Decemat the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Ronstadt's work with Harris on Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. The album was also nominated for Best Country Album. The album sold over 500,000 copies, and won the three another Grammy Award for their remake of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush". In 1999, however, Ronstadt, Parton and Harris agreed to release the Trio II album as it was originally recorded. In 1969, Ronstadt released her debut solo album, Hand Sown.Home Grown, which has been described by the publication Dirty Linen as "the first alternative country record by a female recording artist." She was still a virtual unknown when she toured with the Doors, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, and others. The group is famous for their #13 song from 1967, "Different Drum". They signed with Capitol Records in 1966 and released three albums in a 15-month period. twice before, had begun co-writing folk-rock songs with guitarist and songwriter Kenny Edwards, and eventually, the three formed the group the Stone Poneys. Linda's friend, Bobby Kimmel, whom she had visited in L.A. The group recorded songs at a Tucson studio under the name of the New Union Ramblers.īut Ronstadt wanted to blend folk with rock & roll, and in 1964, after a semester in college at Arizona State in Tucson, she moved to Los Angeles.
They played coffeehouses and other small venues as the Union City Ramblers and the Three Ronstadt's. Linda credits her father for introducing her to the traditional pop and Great American Songbook repertoire that she would, in turn, reintroduce to a new generation.Īt age 14, Ronstadt began a folk music trio with brother Peter and sister Suzy. She listened to many types of music, including Mexican music, and has often remarked that she heard every type of music she has ever recorded by the age of 10. Linda Ronstadt was born in Tucson, Arizona.
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