For Star subscribers: The legendary singer who hails from Tucson will discuss her new memoir, “Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands.”
Bill Finley Special to the Arizona Daily Star There is no shortage of famous people who were born and raised hereabouts — a Google search quickly provides more than 100 names — but it is safe to say Tucson’s favorite daughter answers to “Linda.”
People are also reading… A graduate of Catalina High School, Ronstadt exploded on America’s pop music scene in the late 1960s. In an era that co-starred the Beatles and Rolling Stones, she was one of the most famous entertainers in the world. “Feels Like Home” still has Ronstadt family recipes, 20 of them, but it evolved into much more. Most poignantly, it features stories about her childhood in Tucson.
It was a different time and Tucson a different place in the 1950s and ’60s. The Ronstadts had horses they would ride down the Rillito River, toward Sonora. Readers of Ronstadt’s memoir will learn a lot about her, obviously, but we learn a lot about Tucson, too. She and Downes did not scrimp on their research. Together they explore the experiences shared for generations by Sonorans on both sides of the line.
In many ways, “Feels Like Home” is a love letter to all of us, an ode to the people and places that shaped her life before packing her bags for Los Angeles in 1964.
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