Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

An engaging, fascinating, insightful, informative, entertaining, 95-minute documentary that chronicles the legendary career of folk/pop/rock'n'roll singer Linda Ronstadt, who grew up with her parents on her grandfather's cattle ranch in Tuscon, Ariz., from the formation of the Stone Poneys band in 1964 in California to retiring in 2009 after a Parkinson's disease diagnosis and includes concert snippets that showcased her remarkable and powerful voice, archival photographs and film footage, talk show and award show clips, and interviews with singers/songwriters (such as Dolly Parton, Emilylou Harris, Bobby Kimmel, Ry Cooder, Don Henley, JD Souther, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Aaron Neville, and Glenn Frey), guitarist Waddy Wachtel, manager Pete Asher, filmmaker/journalist Cameron Crowe, LA Times music critic Robert Hilburn, record producer John Boylan, Asylum Records founder David Geffen, actor Kevin Kline, Warner Records executive Joe Smith, brother Pete Ronstadt, and friend Patricia Casado.
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