“The CD includes a 24-page booklet with photos, some excerpts from her book and her comments about each of the songs. “We worked on the album for many months because we wanted to make sure it was what Linda wanted,” Putamayo honcho Storper said. The 10-song collection features songs performed by her and such past and present musical pals as Lalo Guerrero, Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and members of the Bay Area-based Mexican folk music group Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds). The book - about which more in a moment - inspired a companion album of the same name, due out Friday from Putamayo World Records, curated by Ronstadt and Putamayo founder Dan Storper. It is eloquently told by a singer who has devoted much of her career to transcending musical borders, from country, rock and jazz standards to Broadway musicals, opera and the Mexican folklorico music she grew up singing in Arizona with her family in Tucson. 4 by Heyday and sometimes reads like several books intertwined into one.Įnhanced by the vivid photography of Bill Stein, a longtime Ronstadt friend, “Feels Like Home” is a celebration of culture, music, geography, food and family ties that know no borders. The result is “Feels Like Home: Song for the Sonoran Borderlands,” which will be published Oct.
“So, we decided to turn it into a book about the Sonoran desert and how it’s strikingly the same on either side (Mexico and the U.S.), even though they put that border fence in the middle of it.” “It didn’t come together because I don’t cook!” said Ronstadt, 76, a National Medal of Arts recipient, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and 11-time Grammy Award-winner. Linda Ronstadt encountered a pivotal problem when she teamed up with former New York Times writer Lawrence Downes to pen a cookbook featuring some of her family’s favorite recipes.
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