@tomic601, the documentary is great, loved it. I was never that big a fan, being a Country purist and all ;-) . I liked her voice, but she always had a Rock band trying to play Country-ish music, which I don’t like (same reason I never liked The Eagles). By the time she had started recording, I was already listening to Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Thompson, The Louvin Brothers, Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, Moon Mullican, Jerry Lee Lewis (on Smash Records), Carl Perkins, Webb Pierce, Bill Monroe, Bob Wills, and many more. I wasn’t interested in interlopers ;-), who sounded like they had just discovered the music. The older singers sounded like they grew up on the music, and had lived the lyrics.
One cool thing about the movie is seeing and hearing Linda’s Dad, a real good singer himself, and the Mexican half of her parentage. Seeing him in the south-of-the-border culture really puts the lie to the shameful, politically-motivated way it is being characterized by a certain individual.
But let me tell ya, seeing her singing live in the movie gave me a new-found appreciation for the quality and power of her voice. Damn she was good! What Elvis Costello said about her in the late-70’s was hogwash; she was a much better singer than his wife will ever be, or, for that matter, will he. Talk about forced, over-the-top vibrato!
