Breaks my heart. I lived there from 1970 until 1984. It was magic. I moved back for a few years in 2016. It's completely different like a a Monark butterfly stuck on a truck's radiator. Broke my heart. Had to leave.

I was in the audience that night, thrilled beyond belief at what I was seeing and hearing.

impossible not to get misty eyes when you hear Linda sing this

Huge fan of all these women. This is my favorite song written by Kate. RIP beautiful soul.

There is a place on Hwy 128 going towards the Mendocino coast that there is a small hill and when you top it you have a huge Redwood forest in your rear-view mirror and the deep blue of the Pacific ocean in front of you overlooking Navarro by the Sea, one of the most beautiful places on Earth, this song reminds me of that place..... it truly takes me home....

Loved Linda since I was 20. I'm 73 and listening to this song from heaven.

The McGarrigles' very best song. There is magic written into the notes, somehow.

LR could harmonize beautifully with anyone and never would you see her over-sing her part to call attention to her own voice. Damn how I love and respect that

The McGarrigle sisters brought this music to us. Linda Ronstadt and Emmy Lou Harris joined and made it an effort that knew no borders.

Hypnotic, Linda's soft singing and big brown eyes.

Striking, I grew up in NY, traveled all over and last year, before Covid, found Mendo. I love it here. The ocean, the ravens, the kooks, all good.

And this was recorded 40 years ago 😢♥️ all that talent and dedication ♥️

Having been born and raised in Mendocino County, about 35 Miles from the township of Mendocino, and now living on the East coast, hearing Linda sing this really tugs the heartstrings.....

I would bet that if any of the audience saw this today they would wish that they had stood to applaud. I saw Linda perform in Syracuse just a couple of weeks after this. It was the most amazing beautiful and powerful performance by a singer that I have ever seen.

This is a beautiful song, written by the McGarrigle sisters, and sang here very sweetly by Linda and the sisters. For me this song is about yearning for roots. Linda knew about this, having started out touring at about 16 and carrying on without an established home for at least 10 years. For me, it struck home after mum's death 4 years ago. For a while after mum's death this made me cry every time I heard it. I thought it was cathartic. Now the association has gone but it is still a beautiful song.

Beautiful but a tad sad😢. Just lovely…..❤

linda us always amzing!!!!

Wow what a beautiful version! I’d not seen this before now, lovely harmonies.

Oh to be in that audience 😍😍😢

Mesmerizing - the sad sound in Linda's voice was very special. Even when she belts your heart wants to help her feel better.

So beautiful ! Sweet little village !

Legend. A voice like no other. Gorgeous song.

What a delightful performance. Three of the most talented female musicians in the Western Hemisphere, all singing together. Wow. Just wow...

Beautiful song, Beautiful Linda

The voice of an angel. Never be another like her.

So simple, so beautiful.

Three Amazing Women. ❤ #LindaRonstadt

more than magical, master class in harmony, angelic

I recall walking along an empty beach on the east coast of Australia late one afternoon in December 1992, singing this song to myself. My version wasn't as good as this one, to put it mildly.

One captivating song Linda I love you my friend lives in Mendocino county. I always loved any which way you sang , but it is these ballads , when my friend told me she lived there I immediately heard your song in my head. I drifted to your beautiful vocal

This is after Ms. Ronstadt did light opera on Broadway. She trained then with a vocal coach, How many singers in the middle of their careers would do that? Knowledge on top of experience on top of natural talent.

What a treat for that audience 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This song, especially when sung by Linda, evokes a kind of deep unfathomable, almost indefinable emotion in me. It makes me want to cry when I hear it. For me, it is about a long for love and also a deep longing for being more one with nature, for more simplicity and realness of human experience and expression, for a "slowing down and smelling the roses," or watching, hearing, feeling the ocean waves, seeing the sun set with end of a day and rise with the next, a deep yearning for things that all too often get crowded out and lost in this chaotic mess we call modern society. We need songs like this one.

What is beauty? All in the beholder...to this beholder, Linda and the Sisters are it😘

Just a piano accompaniment and three beautiful voices in perfect harmony so powerful and moving for such a stripped down arrangement they needed no other instruments to create absolute magic loved it so much I cried buckets

Stunning performance.

I was born in ny and moved to n cali. I am now stuck in tx.This song makes me cry:(

Great stuff, ladies!

Beautiful!

This song is the most powerful evocation of pure heartache longing for a place that I have ever heard. Kate and Anna's recorded version is fine, but this version with the added element of Linda's voice just takes the emotion that much farther and deeper. Thanks so much for posting.

I have never seen this. Beautiful. Thank you for posting.

Thank you so much for putting up this bunch of videos.

No one has a voice as beautiful a Linda....( except maybe Joan Baez)....both Goddesses!

If you can find the original 1975 LP by Kate and Anna with this song, buy it. So many beautiful songs on it, and all but one are original compositions by the sisters.

Beautiful.

Lovely. I love how Linda just sometimes stops singing and admires Kate as she does her thing. The sped-up tempo is different, too. An interesting change.

Great Song! Linda Looked Great! Loved Her "Bob" Hairstyle! Cool to see the guy smokin a cigarette in the audience---before "big brother!"

Tis A Beautiful Place,,,,

Rufus is on the wireless right now and he mentioned his late mum so I just had to come hear her beautiful voice again. Peace out.

Great song ...we all have that story...thanks for upload!

wow

I think this song is also about the challenges of loving - does my lover who is leaving want me? Am I welcome still in his/her life? Or has that person really left me? And the challenge of being a woman when this was written. Must I be passive (the stereotype of the good woman), must I wait (to be invited, to be asked, to be wanted, enough?), must I follow (as in follow behind - not accompanying, nor leading, must I play the traditional role and follow at someone else's bidding?) The underlying question: is this love? Am I loved? Or is this subjugation and not love?

Hmm - Kate & Anna's sister Jane appears briefly at the beginning and seems like she might be joining in on this one, then abruptly disappears. Am I imagining this? Oh, and Kate is sporting an, um, interesting hairdo here. :) Yes, thank you for posting these. RIP Kate.

I agree. Linda's voice has a depth of emotion that the McGarrigle sisters don't have - fine song-writers though they are. My late sister was a McGarrigle fan, I am a Linda one. She may not (mostly) have written her own songs but she always knew whereof she sang. I find this song a little painful now - we all so long for roots, don't we? and they are nowhere to be found in our modern society.

how incredibly you are here.

Glad to hear this. But the recorded sound quality makes me really sad.

Love seeing the guy smoking a cig in a bar! LOL!

Squawk to Me of Mendocino by someone who lives here Bid farewell to the state of Arizona To get away from home In the LA traffic you begin to age When first your hair starts graying. And the trees grow high in Mendocino This is your last chance to see Those that Calfire hasn’t taken, Cut down by PG and E. Squawk to me of Mendocino Open your eyes, you’ll see RVs Drive up from San Bernardino Passing log trucks full of trees. Cloverdale, turn left to Boonville Getting carsick on the turns Guys can pee upon the redwoods Gals can squat down in the ferns. Eat another lemon gummie Stop and take another toke. Running gaily through the redwoods Crashing into poison oak. What’s become of Mendocino? Now it’s normal and mundane Where are all those old-time hippies? Only tourist traps remain. And the t-shirts all say “Mendocino” Now you wonder why you bought ‘em Never had the crabs from whence you came But in Fort Bragg you caught ‘em. As the sun sets on the ocean You’re still staring at your phone No, I will not take your picture Let me brood here on my own. Squawk to me of Mendocino Open your eyes, you’ll see RVs Drive up from San Bernardino Past the last remaining trees.

I'm sorry but the Kate and Anna version is an order of magnitude better.

I imagine if you lit a cigarette in a pub these days you would be ejected . B

A bit fast .. compared to the original. Imo, it lost a bit of its sweet power.

Nobody sang this better than KATE! Listen to her command the words she WROTE in the second verse...burying Linda in the background...AMAZING!