Kate and Anna McGarrigle with Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel (1984) 

Wow! Anna, Kate, and Linda together? Keep still my beating heart!

Tell you what I respect about Linda Ronstadt. She sang this song on this night the way Kate & Anna McGarrigle would sing it, not as she performed it on her own album. Either way, Ronstadt is undoubtedly the most majestic voice in women's music. I've seen her live 40 times in my lifetime. I miss it. A lot.

Little did we know that we were seeing and hearing the most exquisite angelic broken hearts beating together in one voice... sublime & timeless.

One of the most beautiful performances of this song I’ve heard. Perfect in every way

Such a huge fan of these women for 4 decades of my life. My heart still hurts that Kate died so young from cancer.

So exquisite, such an honor that these moments were recorded so we all could hear such beauty. Such beauty. Thank you Linda and Kate and Anna and everyone. God bless you forever.

Linda Ronstadt had the ability to pick amazing songs from lesser know artists such as Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Thanks Linda for expanding my musical world.

Remembering Kate McGarrigle born on February 6, 1946. She was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle. She is the mother of singers Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright from her marriage to American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, which ended in divorce. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_McGarrigle

Kate and Anna are so lovable songwriters.

Wow, Wow, and Wow, Kate, Anna, Linda, Maria, together! When will we ever see so much talent gathered together in one small venue! Never.

RIP McGarrigle sisters, I love Heart Like A Wheel, I remember getting that album of Linda’s as a teenager, I wish I could have been there…but I saw Linda at several small venues as a teenager and I consider myself SO Lucky ❤

Amazing ❤ I miss when vocalists and true songwriters were at the forefront

I was there at the Redcreek. Just incredible! A voice so pure and strong. Long live linda.

This is one of those songs you just put on repeat till it drives all your friends crazy

Linda's voice is so majestic and her face so divine here.

Proud to say I owned both Kate and Anna's and Linda's version of this song on the Original Vinyl LP

In addition to the gorgeous Lina Ronstadt, credit also must be given to the very unique, and the very beautiful voices of the Montreal sisters Kate and Ana McGarrigle. Sadly we lost Kate a couple of years ago long before her time. RIP Kate.

Nice to be alive to savour this. Thank you, giants.

A great song. Really fine singing. Linda showing that her skills as a singer were beyond belief.

LINDA RONSTADT IS THEE ABSOLUTE BEST ARTIST OF ALL TIME. NO ONE AND I MEAN NO ONE COMES CLOSE IMO... PURE BEAUTY, TALENT ALL MIXED IN ONE... WOW! 🤗

Kate McGarrigle - with short dark hair and at the piano - was the mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright. Her sister and singing partner, Anna McGarrigle, introduced Linda Ronstadt, wrote the song, and came in at 1:01. Anna’s husband is Dane Lanken - bass voice in this performance - and together, they are the parents of Lily Lanken and Sylvan Lanken, who also have been known to sing in public. Jane McGarrigle, the oldest sister, also participated in this performance. Kate died of sarcoma in 2010. I was privileged to meet Anna in Montreal in May, 2019, at a fundraiser for URSA, Martha Wainwright’s new community center/performance venue.

How lucky you people were at this small Rochester bar to have all this talent on stage!

20 years single after divorce. Finally found someone to love and I will never break her heart.

Some say a heart is just like a wheel When you bend it, you can't mend it And my love for you is like a sinking ship And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean They say that death is a tragedy It comes once, and it's over But my only wish is for that deep dark abyss For what's the use of living with no true lover When harm is done, no love can be won I know it happens frequently What I can't understand, oh please god hold my hand Is why it should have happened to me And it's only love and it's only love That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out Some say a heart is just like a wheel When you bend it, you can't mend it And my love for you is like a sinking ship And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean And it's only love and it's only love And it's only love and it's only love And it's only love and it's only love And it's only love and it's only love

Always delightful to hear Ms. Ronstadt singing with other singers.

Love how Linda's voice is like a train that pushes the song along.....wow. jealous of everyone who saw this live...

Breathtaking .

Linda was a gift from God to to us.

let us note that one additional singer on the right, Maria Muldaur

Why did I only discover this today?

Great to see girls singing in harmony

One of the best tunes every written!

singing is art

Just exquisite 💎💎💎

Wow! 🥰

Kate and Anna McGarrigle create a very special and distinctive kind of harmonies, beautiful and heart touching. Although quite different, It reminds me the harmonies by Peter, Paul & Mary.

Oh, my, so beautiful!

Wow! Wow! and Wow!!! Just came across this thank you so much to whomever posted it

Beautiful.

these ladies amazing sat in car listening to this and the fella in next car asked me who it was hes asked me to write down so he can get it somehow a new convert

Sadness so gloriously sang.

A gem. Grateful for the technology that captures and preserves these exceptional moments.

What a treasure this is, a precious gift.

I'm so glad to see this clip. Thank you for posting it, rrgomes. I was in the audience that night in Rochester in 1984 for this concert. The entire concert was exquisite, and this clip is especially poignant now after the death of Kate McGarrigle and the loss of Linda Ronstadt's wonderful voice to the cruel effects of Parkinson's disease.

Wow!

Wow! What Girl power !

stunningly beautiful!!

First Night, Portland Maine. Didn't know that I was seeing the McGarrigle Sisters. Maybe two years later.

A stunning version!!

I think this is the saddest song I know. Also best 3-part harmony.

This is just an utterly gorgeous rendition! Thanks for post!

I m might be wrong, but in an interview Linda said Texas Troubadour, Jerry Jeff Walker first told Linda about this song, while sharing a taxi, and that Linda might want to check it out. And of course the rest was history.

Love

I live in Rochester, and which I could have seen you there.

Such a heartbreaking beautiful song. Ronstadt’s voice is just superb, but I was struck by the physical likeness now between Martha Wainright and Kate McGarrigle.

Otherworldly.

This was a beautiful rendition of that song with all of the additional vocals. She performed with so many artists and I've yet to hear a bad word about her

Wow.

One credit that was missed. That's Maria Muldaur on the right, adding another lovely harmony voice.

♥

I loved Linda's cool teeth ☺

Sadly I never got to meet them, probably because i live in London. They are distant cousins of mine. Ian McGarrigle

This is SO the McGarrigle’s; not totally rehearsed (Linda Ronstadt is clearly reading the lyrics) and charmingly spontaneous.

My goodness wonder what their next song was ? How could you ever top that.

The saddest song in the world.

Pretty

Kate looks so much like Rufus here.

I was extremely sad 13 years ago to find that like a wheel once you bend it can't mend it is a true deep insight after a car door turned me broadside at 50 kph and tacoed both wheels. They laughed in the store when I asked for a rebuild. Now that's sad.

I wouldn't disagree. I think she might hate being inducted. There is a lot of bull-shit attached. She would not have wanted any of it, I am guessing She was the interpreter par excellence of any song. Most songs are really diminished by other people's interpretations". Not hers: she had an instinct for a song.

I really like this but.... does anyone else feel that it was sung too fast and that Kate and Anna weren't entirely comfortable? I prefer the original.

I guess I mean 4-part

The sisters version done on their first album is so much better.

So...not "I got a heart like a wheel, baby i got to roll."

Who came from Ben Howard hmm?

I love this song but prefer the down-tempo version

Although emotionally painful, that song is amazing and what a gorgeous performance. Thanks for uploading