Some quick thoughts on always honest and forthright Linda Ronstadt and the new documentary film about her life as a female rock 'n' roll star, and her recent life as a non-singer as a result of Parkinson’s disease, "LindaRonstadt: The Sound of My Voice" - SEE IT!

Linda Ronstadt, Rolling Stone #276, 
Oct. 19, 1978, 
photo by Francesco Scavullo

I somehow got to go to Linda Ronstadt's house. There is a new documentary about how she was a pioneering female rock n' roll star, which she found "excruciating" to watch. https://t.co/mk1yTEciPk pic.twitter.com/3t23wMjPHj

— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) September 5, 2019

Los Angles Times

Linda Ronstadt on the sound of her life
By Amy Kaufman, Staff Writer

September 5, 2019 7 AM

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-09-04/linda-ronstadt-documentary-the-sound-of-her-life

She can no longer sing bc she has a variant of Parkinson's. “I feel frustrated with it. It’s hard to brush my teeth now and lift up jars, and I drop things all the time. Sometimes I fall down. But that’s the new normal. I just have to accept it. I had a long turn at the trough.”

— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) September 5, 2019

Also: SHE HAS LOST ALL OF HER GRAMMY AWARDS FROM @RecordingAcad! 10 of them. She has no idea where they are. For a long time, her manager kept the trophies in his office, and then she moved them to a storage unit. Somewhere along the way, they vanished.

— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) September 5, 2019

This wonderful article by the always-amazing Amy Kaufman, one of my favorite writers, naturally caused me to recall what I had shared last year with my friend and dynamo singer Cecilia "Cissi" Nilsson, formerly of Gävle but now living, working and recording in beautiful Stockholm.

For the record, there are about as many Cecilia Nilsson's in Sweden as there are David Smith's in the U.S., so, like me, she always has to do something interesting on Social Media name-wise to stand out a bit, like on her Instagram account, where she adds an extra S.
You have no idea how important and prominent the letter "S" is in Sweden.

And as always, when Cissi, our super-talented songbird friend in Stockholm, gives you THAT look, be on your toes! Something amazing is about to happen. Like some new songs... 

More about Cissi below the photo!

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A post shared by @ cissinilssonn on Jul 22, 2019 at 2:28pm PDT

Here's the commercial featuring Cissi singing "Silhouettes in Slow Motion," her popular 2016 song, that Volvo featured in its 2017 ads promoting some amazing features in their new car models in Sweden -and elsewhere. Obviously, promotion-wise, that was a real coup for Cissi. I mean it's VOLVO!

 Screengrab from the commercial showing Cissi's song being played

At the time, 2017, the Volvo ad also gave me LOTS of good ideas for places to see and visit in and around Skåne while touring Sweden in a Volvo with the adorable and ever-curious EC. You regular readers will recall that because of some discouraging  things that were going on early last year in Sweden -CRIME! CRIME CRIME!- and more importantly to me, because, suddenly, EC was no longer in the picture, I reluctantly canceled the one thing that I'd been looking forward to since late Summer of 2017: the idea of an amazing two-week trip to beautiful Stockholm and a driving tour of Sweden, bringing along my favorite person-in-the-whole-world, my favorite world-traveler, EC. Plus, a visit to Iceland on the way back to Fort Lauderdale when snow was still falling in Sweden and Iceland and we could get in some quality aurora-watching.

I had wanted to give her a chance to fall in love with the Sweden that I love so very much, too. And nothing says Sweden like winter-time Sweden. In case you need a reminder about what led to that not-so-happy decision to cancel my trip, read this:

https://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/bad-news-on-sweden-front-how-that-very.html

Volvo Cars Connectivity "Weekenders" from Life in the City on Vimeo.

See also https://vimeo.com/183901987

So back to La Ronstadt...

@CallMeCilia 1/ I put this #LindaRonstadt @RollingStone in photo frame, took w/me to @IUBloomington next yr. ��
Nobody I ever met @ #IU knew her music as well as me, backwards-&-forwards.
Friends at my dorm were forever borrowing all my albums of hers. 10/19/78 #FrancescoScavullo pic.twitter.com/JsuoncEpn6

— HallandaleBeach/HollywoodBlog (@hbbtruth) December 19, 2018

@CallMeCilia @fredrikstrage @niklassvensson @MiriamBryant @mollysanden @LanaDelRey 3/ MT @KennethTuran '#LindaRonstadt: The Sound of My Voice' reveals its subject to be an individual of integrity as well as a singer�� of genius. Well worth a watch.
Review: https://t.co/jdzfamiSUJ

— HallandaleBeach/HollywoodBlog (@hbbtruth) September 7, 2019

Linda Ronstadt - Silver Threads And Golden Needles (1976) Offenbach, Germany

Los Angeles Times

Review: ‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’ stirs the soul
By Kenneth Turan, Film Critic

September 5, 2019 2:13 PM

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-09-05/linda-ronstadt-the-sound-of-my-voice-review-documentary

'Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice' reveals its subject to be an individual of integrity as well as a singer of genius. Well worth a watch. My review:  https://t.co/ja9Bc7JVmB

— Kenneth Turan (@KennethTuran) September 6, 2019

Some insight via @AmyKinLA, @KennethTuran, & me re always forthright #LindaRonstadt and new #Documentary film abt her life as a female rock 'n' roll star 🎤, and her recent life as a non-singer as a result of #Parkinsons disease, "@RonstadtMovie" - SEE IT!https://t.co/WekYpYJuCF pic.twitter.com/iQbrQEyLL4

— HallandaleBeach/HollywoodBlog (@hbbtruth) September 11, 2019

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