LINDA RONSTADT CANCIONES DE MI PADRE ( COMPLETE), 1989

This video is the complete version. The opening first 5 minutes shows Linda talking and riding a horse through the countryside and also she is shown with her father. She talks about her childhood and love of the Mexican culture. In this show she celebrates the music of her HispanicAmerican heritage songs she calls a living memory of heart felt experience, taped in San Francisco. This Great Performances presentation is also called A Romantic Evening in Old Mexico. Her singing partner is Daniel Valdez. I have come across a music review by Ralph Novak (in an old People magazine dated Jan. 11, 1988) of the album Linda made of Canciones De Mi Padre. It reads as follows: Lovingly conceived and delightfully executed, this allSpanish album is Ronstadt s tribute to her father, Gilbert, now in his 70 s. All 13 songs on the LP (the title means Songs of My Father) originated in his native Mexico, and Ronstadt and her coproducers, Peter As br, br,