Youtube linda rontadt hasten down the wind skin#

Youtube linda rontadt hasten down the wind skin#

They are the cleverest of water hoarders and can expand their leathery green skin to capture as much as a ton of additional water. These enormous plant beings (I can think of no other way to describe them) grow within a few hundred miles of Tucson and no place else on the face of the earth. Instead, we had the giant cacti known as saguaros. I wondered what kind of a place would have such an abundance of lollipop trees and lush green meadows that didn’t even have to be watered with a hose. “The place where I grew up bore no resemblance whatsoever to the pictures in the little books I read as a child.

It’s amazingly well written, if highly selective and a little imbalanced-a long, vivid, and transporting chapter on her childhood in Tucson followed by chapters of varying lengths tracking her career, dwelling on landmarks like the making of her breakthrough album, Heart Like a Wheel, and virtually skipping over some others, such as my all-time favorite of hers, Hasten Down the Wind. I did buy her book, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir, and devoured it in a little more than a day. Another chance, perhaps the last, missed. It could have happened just a week ago when she was in Washington for the National Book Festival, plugging her new memoir-on my birthday no less-but my partner and I went to Philadelphia for the day. Unlike other musical acts I’ve been anywhere from interested in to borderline obsessed with over the years-Carly Simon, Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, Iris Dement, Peter, Paul and Mary, even Bruce Springsteen (whom I feel lucky have seen once in my life-35 years ago, and he was filling stadiums then!)-the opportunity has never been right and/or has rarely presented itself to see Linda.