It looks like this release almost didn’t happen. From Rolling Stone:
The album owes its release to serendipitous circumstances, according to producer John Boylan. Although HBO, Ronstadt and her record label, Warner Bros., were initially unable to locate the master tapes, Boylan ultimately tracked them down because of a conversation he had with a Warner Bros. audio engineer at their sons’ hockey practice. “I have no way of calculating the odds of finding the lost tapes through a chance encounter at a hockey practice, but they must be astronomical — like winning the lottery,” Boylan writes in the LP’s liner notes. “And in this case of remarkable serendipity, every Linda Ronstadt fan is a lottery winner.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/linda-ronstadt-live-album-769477/
You'd think that Warner Bros. could have put out a memo asking their staff if anyone knew where the master tapes were, but I guess the music business has its own way of doing things.
The album owes its release to serendipitous circumstances, according to producer John Boylan. Although HBO, Ronstadt and her record label, Warner Bros., were initially unable to locate the master tapes, Boylan ultimately tracked them down because of a conversation he had with a Warner Bros. audio engineer at their sons’ hockey practice. “I have no way of calculating the odds of finding the lost tapes through a chance encounter at a hockey practice, but they must be astronomical — like winning the lottery,” Boylan writes in the LP’s liner notes. “And in this case of remarkable serendipity, every Linda Ronstadt fan is a lottery winner.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/linda-ronstadt-live-album-769477/
You'd think that Warner Bros. could have put out a memo asking their staff if anyone knew where the master tapes were, but I guess the music business has its own way of doing things.
