“was so focused on folk, rock and country”
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Linda Ronstadt
Linda Maria Ronstadt is an American retired singer and musician who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, folk, pop, country, and soul.
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Born 15 July 1946 · Q229375
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2026· 7 entries
“artificially encouraged to kinda cop a really tough attitude (and be tough) because rock and roll is kind of tough (business)”
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“sticks to what the music demands”
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AOL: Linda Ronstadt Turned a Glenn Frey Mixtape Song Into a 1978 Smash Hit
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Public attention spiked: 39,184 Wikipedia readers in one day, 9.3× the usual 4,227, with 3 article edits. Coverage that week: “Linda Ronstadt on life spent traveling to the beat of a different drum” (USA TODAY).
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USA TODAY: Linda Ronstadt on life spent traveling to the beat of a different drum
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Released album “The Early Years”.
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2025· 1 entry
Released album “1972-08-12: Lenox Arts Center, Lenox, MA”.
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2024· 2 entries
American Songwriter: Without Linda Ronstadt, This Beloved Classic Rock Band Wouldn’t Exist
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Released album “1976-11-13: BBC Sessions, Old Grey Whistle Test, New Victoria Theatre, London, Britain”.
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2023· 2 entries
Released ep “As Heard on TV”.
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People: Linda Ronstadt's 'Long Long Time' Soaring on Streaming After 'The Last of Us' Episode
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2022· 2 entries
Released ep “I Am Woman”.
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Released album “Ten Songs for You”.
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2021· 2 entries
The Cheat Sheet: Linda Ronstadt Declined to Appear at Her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction
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Released album “Like a Rose (The Classic 1976 Broadcast Recording)”.
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “1973-06-02: McCabe's Guitar Shop, Los Angeles, CA”.
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2019· 5 entries
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2019).
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Released album “Live in Hollywood”.
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Released album “Lush Live”.
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Received a star jointly with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their work as the group Trio
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Released album “The Legendary FM Radio Broadcasts: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA Nov 3 1976”.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt: The Real First Ladies of Country”.
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2016· 4 entries
Released album “The Complete Trio Collection”.
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Released album “Trio: Farther Along”.
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Released album “My Dear Companion: Selections From the Trio Collection”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2016).
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2015· 4 entries
Released album “Transmission Impossible”.
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Released album “Just One Look: Classic Linda Ronstadt”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “I Fall to Pieces: New York ’74”.
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2014· 9 entries
Was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2014).
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Won National Medal of Arts (2014).
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Released album “The 70's Studio Album Collection”.
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Released album “The 90’s Studio Album Collection”.
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Released album “The ’80s Collection”.
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Released album “Duets”.
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Released album “Icon”.
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Released album “Hand Sown... Home Grown / Silk Purse / Linda Ronstadt”.
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2011· 5 entries
On which Ronstadt's 1976 version of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be The Day" appears among newly recorded versions of Holly's songs by various artists
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Released album “The Collection”.
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Awarded Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2011).
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And also awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy in 2016
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And revealed shortly afterward that she is no longer able to sing, as a result of a degenerative condition initially diagnosed as Parkinson's disease but later determined to be progressive supranuclear palsy
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Linda Ronstadt / Heart Like a Wheel”.
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2009· 4 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Berklee College of Music (2009).
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In 2009, in honor of Ronstadt, the Martin Guitar Company made a 00–42 model "Linda Ronstadt Limited Edition" acoustic guitar.
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Released album “Original Album Series”.
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Released album “Hand Sown… Home Grown / Silk Purse”.
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “Mad Love Live, Los Angeles, CA, 1980-08-24”.
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Released album “Blue Bayou and Other Hits”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits I & II”.
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Released album “The Platinum Collection”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “The Best of Linda Ronstadt: The Capitol Years”.
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“embarrassed George Bush (was) from the United States. ... He”
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Adieu False Heart”.
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Released album “Young & Lovely at the Capital Centre”.
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2004· 7 entries
Released album “Hummin’ to Myself”.
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Released album “Jardín Azul / Las Canciones Favoritas”.
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Released album “Linda Rondstadt Classics”.
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And her final collaborative album in 2006, and performed her final live concert in 2009
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Was interviewed for CBS This Morning and stated that this image was not her because she did not sit like that
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Ronstadt released Hummin' to Myself, her album for Verve Records
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That Ronstadt is "blessed with arguably the most sterling set of pipes of her generation"
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt”.
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Released album “Sausalito 1973”.
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2001· 1 entry
It was certified double-platinum by the RIAA for shipments of over 2 million copies in the United States, making it the best-selling non-English-language album in U
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “A Merry Little Christmas”.
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Ronstadt completed her long contractual relationship with the Elektra/Asylum label
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1999· 4 entries
Released album “Box Set”.
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Released album “Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions”.
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Ronstadt, Parton, and Harris agreed to release the Trio II album, as was originally recorded in 1994
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Ronstadt went back to her concert roots when she performed with the Eagles and Jackson Browne at Staples Center's 1999 New Year's Eve celebration kicking off the December 31 end-of-the-millennium festivities
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1998· 5 entries
Released album “Trio II”.
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Released album “We Ran”.
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Released album “Blue Bayou”.
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Ronstadt released We Ran, her first album in over two years
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Released album “Required Ronstadt”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Her Greatest Hits and Her Finest Performances”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Dedicated to the One I Love”.
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Ronstadt produced Dedicated to the One I Love, an album of classic rock and roll songs reinvented as lullabies
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Feels Like Home”.
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1994· 1 entry
The three performers recorded a follow-up to Trio
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Winter Light”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album for Frenesí (1993).
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Released album “Boleros y rancheras”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Frenesí”.
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1991· 4 entries
Released album “Más canciones”.
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The City of Tucson opened its central transit terminal on March 16 and dedicated it to Linda's grandfather, Federico José María Ronstadt, a local pioneer businessman; he was a wagon maker whose early contribution to the
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Released Mas Canciones, a follow-up to the first Canciones
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Ronstadt acted in the lead role of archangel San Miguel in La Pastorela, or A Shephard's Tale, a musical filmed at San Juan Bautista
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1990· 1 entry
When she and Neville performed "Don't Know Much" together on the telecast
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “Cry Like a Rainstorm - Howl Like the Wind”.
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program (1989).
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Ronstadt released a mainstream pop album and several popular singles
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1988· 1 entry
Ronstadt returned to Broadway for a limited-run engagement in the musical show adaptation of her album celebrating her Mexican heritage, Canciones De Mi Padre – A Romantic Evening in Old Mexico
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Trio”.
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Released album “Canciones de mi padre”.
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Made a return to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with "Somewhere Out There", which peaked at number 2 in March
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1986· 4 entries
“I can sing in my brain…I sing in my brain all the time. It’s not quite the same as doing it physically. There’s a physical feeling in singing that’s just like skiing down a hill. Except better, because I’m not a very good skier.”
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Released album “’Round Midnight”.
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“People didn’t have a clue I was Mexican unless they grew up with me…I heard plenty of it…I’d straighten them out fast.”
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Released album “For Sentimental Reasons”.
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1984· 3 entries
Released album “Lush Life”.
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Ronstadt and Riddle performed these songs live, in concert halls throughout Australia, Japan, and the United States, including multi-night performances at historic venues Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and Pine Kn
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Ronstadt was cast in the role at Joseph Papp's Public Theater
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “What’s New”.
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1982· 3 entries
Her "Happy Thanksgiving Day" concert was held at the Reunion Arena in Dallas and broadcast live via satellite to NBC radio stations in the United States
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Ronstadt released the album Get Closer, a primarily rock album with some country and pop music as well
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Released album “Get Closer”.
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1981· 3 entries
Released album “For Country Lovers”.
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Ronstadt produced and recorded an album of pop standards (later marketed in bootleg form) titled Keeping Out of Mischief with the assistance of producer Jerry Wexler
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Released album “Keeping Out of Mischief”.
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1980· 3 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits, Volume 2”.
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Greatest Hits, Volume 2 was released and certified platinum
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Released album “Mad Love”.
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1979· 2 entries
Ronstadt went on an international tour, playing in arenas across Australia to Japan, including the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, and the Budokan in Tokyo
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Released album “Live at Budokan”.
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1978· 6 entries
Released album “Living in the USA”.
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In her hometown of Tucson, where she and Jagger sang "Tumbling Dice"
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Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris, friends and admirers of one another's work (Ronstadt had included a cover of Parton's "I Will Always Love You" on Prisoner in Disguise) attempted to collaborate on a Trio album
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Alone, she made over $12 million (equivalent to $59 million in 2025) and in the same year her albums sales were reported to be 17 million – grossing over $60 million (equivalent to $300 million in 2025)
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Rolling Stone declared Ronstadt "by far America's best-known female rock singer
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That Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, and Carly Simon had become "The Queens of Rock" and "Rock is no longer exclusively male
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1977· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Hasten Down the Wind (1977).
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Released album “Simple Dreams”.
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Released album “A Retrospective”.
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Was asked by the Los Angeles Dodgers to sing the U
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1976· 4 entries
Ronstadt had collaborated with her father to write and compose a traditional Mexican folk ballad, "Lo siento mi vida" – a song that she included on Hasten Down the Wind
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Released album “Hasten Down the Wind”.
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And 1977, she appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone and Time
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Ronstadt reached the Top 3 of Billboard's Album Chart and won her second career Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her third consecutive platinum album Hasten Down the Wind
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1975· 2 entries
Released album “Prisoner in Disguise”.
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Ronstadt performed shows with Jackson Browne, the Eagles, and Toots and the Maytals
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1974· 3 entries
Released album “Heart Like a Wheel”.
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Released album “Different Drum”.
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Told Peter Knobler in Crawdaddy, "People are always taking advantage of you; everybody that's interested in you has got an angle
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “Don’t Cry Now”.
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With Boylan (who had negotiated her contract with Asylum Records) and John David "JD" Souther producing most of the album's tracks
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1971· 3 entries
Ronstadt began talking with David Geffen about moving from Capitol Records to Geffen's Asylum Records label
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And played on Linda Ronstadt, her eponymous third album, from which a failed single, Ronstadt's version of Jackson Browne's "Rock Me on the Water", was drawn
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Released album “Linda Ronstadt”.
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1970· 2 entries
Released album “Silk Purse”.
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That "Rock people thought she was too gentle, folk people thought she was too pop, and pop people didn't quite understand where she was at, but Country people really loved Linda
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1969· 2 entries
Released album “Hand Sown… Home Grown”.
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Which has been described as the first alternative country record by a female recording artist
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1968· 1 entry
To "Mexican bluegrass" – and redirected them into her rock 'n' roll and some of her pop music
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1967· 1 entry
“Back in 1967,Tiger Beat magazine asked me what my ambition was for my career. I said I want to become a really good Mexican singer. But it wasn’t noticed or validated”
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1964· 2 entries
After a semester at the University of Arizona, the 18-year-old decided to move to Los Angeles
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And later that year, shortly before her eighteenth birthday, decided to move there permanently to form a band with him
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1946· 2 entries
The third of four children of Gilbert Ronstadt (1911–1995), a prosperous machinery merchant who ran the F
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Born 1946-07-15.
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