qr 1K Armitwitiewrl oar" 410 VrtA'fP-'- e DESERET NEWSTHE SALT LAKE TRU:nat NOVEMBER 25 1993 T1113tSAY ) Ell 5 MIE‘i "19 Ronstadt marching to a different drum Robert B !burn ELL Lkb Amities Ttmes - - - a lk 6AN FRANCISCO — Linda 1 R6nstadt's pop profile has been so N if loW in recent years that some of her fans may have thought she had ' ''' gone into One of the biggest selling and : inost acclaimed singers of the '70s and '80s Ronstadt has been noticeably absent from the pop charts the mainstream concert stage and the media But it has been no I 4 Garbo move At an age when most veteran - Po? artists are recycling the old t C ' hits or cutting back on their musi' cal output Ronstadt 47 is in the studio almost constantly working ( on a wide musical spectrum Since 1989's "Cry Like a Rainstorm— Howl Lile the Wind" her last collection of pop tunes the Meson Ariz native has recorded tvaio albums of her own hi Spanish and produced albums for Aaron " Npville David Lindley Jimmy Webb andlhe Mexican group Mariachi Los Camperos most of it at k - :director George Lucas' Skywalker ‘ in Studios Marin County Calif It's a Musical vision wide enough to es-tablish her as a true pop rensis 1 i I sance woman In the '70s Ronstadt wasn't just but a symbol — with a the Eagles and Jackson Browne — d of the introspective Linda Ronstadt sound that was identified with the region in that decade The could lure her into returning full California always seemed like such California connection was comtime to the style a foreign place to me I was homepounded by her highly publicized sick for Tucson and wishing that I Ronstadt who moved to northromantic link with Gov Jerry ern California in 1988 during her could be back playing the Mexican Brown There were even rumors of relationship with Lucas music and traditional music that I marriage during one of Brown's now lives with her made with my brother and sister presidential bids When I started recording with adopted daughter in a Victorian But those times weren't quite so house in chic Pacific '60s Los Angeles trio) the (the Heights : magical for Ronstadt: She was On the eve of the new album's Stone Poneys people seemed to comfortable she says singing release she sat in the living room like us but I was impatient with rock "111 roll!nor did she feel at of the house and spoke the music because it didn't feel as hqme in Los Angeles Rather than about the years of pop stardom in good as what I left behind — and I k sticking cautiously with the Southern California and her rest- continued to feel that way all style that had brought her less search for musical satisfacthrough the '70s when I was on my fame Ronstadt boldly accepted tion own I kept trying to learn to sing the role of Mabel in Joseph Papp's better but I don't think I ever did Q: How did you feel being a sym1980 Broadway production of Gilk bol of Southern California get much better bert & Sullivan's "Pirates of in the '70s? Q: You were probably the most Penzance" A: The funny thing is Southern admired singer in pop critically Feeling liberated she proceeded in:the '80s to record three collections of pop and jazz standards a country album with longtime pals Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harrtl and the first of her Mexican HOLLYWOOD (UP!) — Fred Right Stuff' and Henry Miller in music albums Ward has joined the cast of "The "Henry and June" He currently is conAd will The singer Naked Gun 33 13: The Final Inin Robert Altman's featured il:111e to make occasional pop alsult" starring Leslie Nielsen as the "Short Cuts" bums the new "Winter Light" bungling inept police captain Director Peter Segal announcfeatures songs by some of her faFrank Drebbin and Priscilla ing Ward's addition to the cast vorite writers including Webb Presley as his said "Why such a and ! the MeGarrigle Sisters girlfriend Harris serious actor is working with us is But not even the 2 million sales Ward is best known for playing stiCcess of tt'Cry Like a Rainstorm" Tastronaut Gus Grissom in "The beyond my comprehension" semi-retireme- nt - v ) 1 - - I - hit-mak- er country-flavore- five-ye- ar tr four-stor- y pop-roc- Electronic books may hurt bookstores and rock of the decade and yet you say you didn't feel comfortable with your music? A: Most people came to rock In' roll through blues or rhythm & blues or gospel I didn't have that background at all except for what I heard as a kid on radio I sang Mexican music and that's what my best voice was that "ranchera" style Mexican country music That's where my sense of phrasing and rhythm was based Igo: But didn't the sales and acclaim convince you in the "70s that you -were doing quality work? A- No because I could hear what it sounded like and I didn't think it was very good I often thought the album covers were better than the records I was very frustrated musically I thought the production on "You're No Good" (her 1974 breakthrough No 1 single) was very good but I didn't sing it very well As a song it was just an afterthought It's not the kind of song I got a lot of satisfaction out of By Video Magazine For AP Special Fedrurrs Just as the introduction of the automobile heralded the end of the bug whip industry the advent of electronic books could eventually make a big dent in the bookshelf business discs Some of these Electronic books are store I on 3-- to discs are capable of storing up to 100000 pages of text and Mustrations One disc now being sold contains all the Sherlock Holmes stories the complete works of Shakespeare and the novel "War and Peace!" With this kind of capacity it is easy to envision whole libraries being stored on one shelf no more than a few feet wide But the bookshelf makers shouldn't put away their hammers and nails just yet according to Video Magazine In the beginning automobiles were manufactured in a confusing array of types and varieties and it took awhile for the 400 or so car manufacturers existing at the turn of the century to be whittled down to those buggies We know manufacturing the today The same thing is happening with electronic books These tomes of the future are now being published in more than 20 incompatible formats which are "read" by equally incompatible electronic book players Rather than making a concerted effort to come up with an industry format manufacturers are waiting for consumers to sort out the winning standard in the marketplace But until an electronic book standard is chosen electronic book publishing won't present a real threat to those companies publishing the paper variety Electronic publishing isn't standing still however By the end of this year at least 100 electronic books will be available most priced from $29 to $39 And electronic book players are getting better and better The Sony Data Discman for instance is available in three models ranging from $199 to $549 Easy to use and weighing about a pound the Discman allows the user to read text and view graphics screen and will even read the book aloud should from its h the user choose that option The electronic books are contained discs similar to the floppy discs used in computers on 315-inc- h Extra features include a variety of search methods an electronic bookmark button and a video output that allows the Discman to display on most any handy video screen a player which funcAlso currently available is Sony's PIX-10-0 tions in a SiTtlibr way but is geared for use as a business informadiscs similar to the tion tooL This system is larger and uses discs marketed the music compact by industry four-wheel- singing Q: What led you into rock in the first place? 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