Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands
By Linda Ronstadt, Lawrence Downes and Bill Steen
()
About this ebook
A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
2023 Southwest Book of the Year Selection
"The arid land that starts in Arizona and stretches into Mexico's west coast is Ronstadt's foothold in the world. It's a story she has told through music, and now wants to tell through food."—The New York Times
"The book is many things at once. It’s a portrait of a place, the Sonoran Desert, and it’s a genealogy of sorts, an archival romp through Ronstadt’s family history."—Vogue
"An album of loves for the high desert of Sonora and Ronstadt's hometown of Tucson."—NPR
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Linda Ronstadt takes readers on a journey to the place her soul calls home, the Sonoran Desert, in this candid new memoir.
In Feels Like Home, Grammy award-winning singer Linda Ronstadt effortlessly evokes the magical panorama of the high desert, a landscape etched by sunlight and carved by wind, offering a personal tour built around meals and memories of the place where she came of age. Growing up the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants and a descendant of Spanish settlers near northern Sonora, Ronstadt’s intimate new memoir celebrates the marvelous flavors and indomitable people on both sides of what was once a porous border whose denizens were happy to exchange recipes and gather around campfires to sing the ballads that shaped Ronstadt’s musical heritage. Following her bestselling musical memoir, Simple Dreams, this book seamlessly braids together Ronstadt’s recollections of people and their passions in a region little understood in the rest of the United States. This road trip through the desert, written in collaboration with former New York Times writer Lawrence Downes and illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs by Bill Steen, features recipes for traditional Sonoran dishes and a bevy of revelations for Ronstadt’s admirers. If this book were a radio signal, you might first pick it up on an Arizona highway, well south of Phoenix, coming into the glow of Ronstadt’s hometown of Tucson. It would be playing something old and Mexican, from a time when the border was a place not of peril but of possibility.
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt has received twelve Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, and one Emmy Award, as well as several Tony and Golden Globe nominations. She lives in San Francisco with her family.
Related to Feels Like Home
Related ebooks
Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Linda Ronstadt: A Life In Music Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5100 Ways to Beat the Blues: An Uplifting Book for Anyone Who's Down Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5My Life in Dire Straits Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Estates Large and Small Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnd A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band In The Wind: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTouched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rachel Maddow: A Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Father's List: How Living My Dad's Dreams Set Me Free Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robert Plant: A Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Queen of the Owls: A Novel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Lay It On The Line: A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict and TRIUMPH Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Gift Best Given: A Memoir Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWoman of the River: Georgie White Clark White-Water Pioneer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen a Child Dies from Drugs: Pratical Help for Parents in Bereavement. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStreet Player: My Chicago Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speaking with Strangers: A Memoir Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Willie Nelson's Letters to America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHadassah: An American Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Artists and Musicians For You
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Love Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elvis and Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yes Please Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coreyography: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Outsider Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of The War of Art: by Steven Pressfield | Includes Analysis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Me: Elton John Official Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bowie: An Illustrated Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leonardo da Vinci Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Woman in Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5James Baldwin: A Biography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gender Madness: One Man's Devastating Struggle with Woke Ideology and His Battle to Protect Children Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rememberings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Would Leave Me If I Could.: A Collection of Poetry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/550 Great Love Letters You Have To Read (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Violinist of Auschwitz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Autobiography of Gucci Mane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Meaning of Mariah Carey Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not My Father's Son: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More Myself: A Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Feels Like Home
0 ratings0 reviews