"I don't know, I may be just an unhappy person forever. I'm very dissatisfied with everything. I'm hard to please and very restless, so it's always a battle between that and my real deep desire to have a home and roots, which is a kind of contentment which is beyond description when you find it. And I've only had glimpses of it."
~Linda Ronstadt
Heartbreak on Wheels
by Ben Fong-Torres
photographs by Annie Leibovitz
Rolling Stone, March 27, 1975
Published on Dec 31, 2012
Canciones De Mi Padre (Spanish for "Songs Of My Father," or "My Father's Songs") was American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt's first album of Mexican traditional Mariachi music. The album was released in late 1987 and quickly became a smash hit. It stands as the biggest selling non-English language album in American record history. The album has been RIAA certified Double-Platinum (for over 2 million US copies sold) and also won Ronstadt the Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Performance. To date, it has sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide.
For the life of me I have no words except "Thank you, Linda for not keeping your "light under a bushel." Thanks to you and all the other genius artists we have that magnificent voice of yours captured.