Linda Ronstadt Day

The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

San Francisco officially declared July 15th Linda Ronstadt Day. In her honor, The Kitchen Sisters Present this story about her book, Feels Like Home, about her family, and the food, culture and music of the borderland of Arizona and Mexico where she is rooted.

Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands is an historical, musical, edible memoir that spans the story of five generations of Linda’s Mexican American German family, from the Sonoran desert in Mexico to the Ronstadt family hardware store in Tucson to the road that led Linda to LA and musical stardom. Intimate and epic, "this is little Linda, Mexican Linda, cowgirl Linda, desert Linda."

The book, written in collaboration with New York Times writer Lawrence Downes, is a road trip through the Sonoran Borderlands, from Tucson to Banámichi, Mexico — the path Linda’s immigrant grandfather took at a time when the border was not a place of peril but of possibility.

We went to see Linda at home to ask her about the journey.

This story was produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) and Evan Jacoby in collaboration with Brandi Howell and Nathan Dalton. Mixed by Jim McKee

Thanks to Lawrence Downes, John Boylan, Bill Steen, Janet Stark and The PRX Podcast Garage. And to the team at Heyday Books: Steve Wasserman, Kalie Caetano & Megan Beatie and to Putamayo Music who just released Feels Like Home: Songs From The Sonoran Borderlands, Linda Ronstadt’s Musical Odyssey.

Special thanks to Linda Ronstadt for opening her home and her vault to this story.

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0:00.0	Radio Tophia, welcome to the Kitchen Sisters Presently.
0:04.0	We're the Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nicki Silva.
0:09.0	Before we get going, I want to tell you about a show I really like our fellow radiotopia show
0:14.6	this day in esoteric political history.
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0:27.0	This day is doing a number of special election related series all alongside their
0:32.4	regular collection of fascinating and informative stories
0:35.6	from the past.
0:37.2	This day is hosted by Jody Avergan, formerly of 30 for 30, and two actual historians, Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley and Nicole
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0:51.7	way in the past.
0:53.2	Check out this day in esoteric political history
0:56.6	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:58.2	This week, San Francisco has officially declared July 15th, Linda Rundstadt Day in recognition of her iconic catalogue of work, her commitment to social justice, and her 78th birthday.
1:15.0	Today, in her honor, the Kitchen Sisters present our story, Linda Ronsdatt,
1:20.0	feels like home, about her book, her family, and the food, culture, and music. at the most successful female pop singer of all time.
1:33.0	1983.
1:34.0	Now some might say she's also the most controversial,
1:37.0	but putting that aside for a moment,
1:39.0	there's hardly an area of music that hasn't been explored and conquered by this Queen of Pop.
1:43.0	Even Gilbert and Sullivan recently succumbed to the Ronstadt Magic
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