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Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

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In her early twenties, Linda Ronstadt took the rock music scene by storm. Despite the risk-averse nature of the industry, the daring singer broke away from the safety of pop music to experiment with a variety of different genres. This documentary tells the story of one of the most successful artists of the 20th century.

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San Francisco Chronicle

After watching her belt, blast and harmonize with power and precision through wildly diverse styles of music like an Amazon heroine, to see her struggle her way through this short piece is the kind of heart-string moment documentary filmmakers can only hope to catch.

90

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Memories in popular music are notoriously short, and if you’ve forgotten how extraordinary a singer Linda Ronstadt is, how wide a range of material she’s explored and how deep her commitment to the art and craft of music is, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice is a potent, mind-expanding reminder.

90

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

The political intelligence and matter-of-fact feminism that emerge in this portrait are among its most intriguing aspects. Her cleareyed, down-to-earth thoughts on her profession, her family and American culture (musical and otherwise) make her someone you want to know better.

88

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

For a fan, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice is a lot more than a quick trip through her career and her life, even if it offers few deep insights into her psyche and to others might seem just an exercise in Boomer musical nostalgia.

80

Variety by Owen Gleiberman

Laced with colorful stories. ... The movie is mostly content to be a portrait of Ronstadt the artist, and it’s more than satisfying on that front.

75

The Playlist by Asher Luberto

The beauty of Lina Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice is the sound of other voices.

70

TheWrap by Steve Pond

A fitting tribute to a woman worthy of one.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Astutely chronicling an amazing musical career that ended prematurely due to Parkinson's disease, the doc will delight the singer's old fans and likely make her many new ones as well.

58

IndieWire by Kate Erbland

A maddeningly shallow look at Ronstadt’s remarkable life.

50

Slant Magazine by Wes Greene

It isn’t long into the film when the hagiographic soundbites from famous interviewees become the dominant mode.