It’s been nearly 30 years since Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt got together to release their original Trio record, in 1987, and the music still holds up beautifully. Here are three women who have weathered every passing trend […]
Originally reissued on CD in 1995, Capitol apparently allowed Linda Ronstadt’s second solo album to go out of print. Varese remedies the situation with this straight-up reissue of the album’s ten tracks, together with an eight-panel booklet that includes new […]
When Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris began singing together in mutual admiration well before the release of the first Trio album in 1987, there was no Americana, no O Brother, no conventional category into which this music fit. […]
The summer may be over, but there is plenty of dancing in the street that will greet this fall’s outstanding slate of releases from a variety of folks. A couple of legends, a couple that should be legends by now, some […]
Music memoirs fall generally into three categories. Some, like Gregg Allman’s My Cross to Bear (William Morrow), tiresomely catalog an artist’s immersion in sex, drugs, and rock and roll, providing very little insight into the artist’s music or the value […]
What are the elements of a great song? What is it about some songs that wends its way into our hearts and souls and stirs emotions in us even 40 years after we first heard it? Why do some songs […]
In September, I wrote a feature for Publishers Weekly discussing many new memoirs — many written by women, and some which are just now being released. Carly Simon’s Boys in the Trees (Flatiron Books 2015) has sold over 77,000 copies — a […]
With the opening strains of a cello and the dual vocals of Aaron Nathans and Michael G. Ronstadt, the adapted poem – “I Stood Upon a Hill” by obscure poet Clarence Dan Blachly – unfolds as a brilliant lyric. Discovered in a […]
Building the Arizona Inn in Tucson kept Isabella Greenway busy for a while after she left Congress. She filled it with furniture bought from an organization she founded to provide work for disabled war veterans. Although she had hundreds of […]
Like a hypo-hygienic not-so-nice ice cream man, Claire has a dirty little scoop: Linda-doo-ron-Ronstadt has perfected, like a late 19th-century French painter killing the Catskills, the art of the impression. Listen to Bob-not-Jakob-Dylan-not-Thomas’s “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”, and I’ll […]
