Linda Ronstadt Feels Like Home: Songs From The Sonoran Borderland (CD)

(Putumayo World Music) 10 tracks , digipack including CD, download card + 24 page booklet

A rock star visits his roots Ry Cooder, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton, Neil Young and Taj Mahal - all on one album?

Linda Ronstadt has so many celebrities on one album when she reviews her life. She is best known for her seventies hits: the love ballad "Blue Bayou" or the party earworm "It's So Easy". But that's just the hit parade face of a diverse career as a musician that spans rock and pop, country, the Great American Songbook and opera. The name Linda Ronstadt stands for an unparalleled success story: among her many awards, no less than eleven Grammys stand out. Several albums achieved multi-platinum status, and in her heyday her concerts filled entire stadiums. Her duet partners ranged from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon to Johnny Cash. Ronstadt received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame.

Deep in her heritage, the Tucson, Arizona-born US-American of Mexican and German ancestry also reveals a very different musical vein. The sound of the Sonora region of the US-Mexican borderland flows in her. Now she has published a moving retrospective of this part of her life as a book and CD compilation, celebrating the formative songs of her past. And the crème de la crème of the American roots scene accompanies her on her touching sound journey.