While Heart Like a Wheel was a hybrid of Country Rock and a more mainstream Rock/Pop sound, Ronstadt moved in a more mainstream Rock direction with her next two albums, Prisoner in Disguise (1975) and Hasten Down the Wind (1976). She finally broke out with 1974's Heart Like a Wheel, driven by two massive hits, "When Will I Be Loved" and "You're No Good". She built a following and found some commercial success with her fourth album, 1973's Don't Cry Now. While it was a commercial failure, she emerged at the forefront of the West Coast Country Rock movement in the early 1970s. Ronstadt then went solo, departing from the folk-rock sound of The Stone Poneys to a Country Rock sound on her debut solo album Hand Sown.Home Grown.
She immediately garnered attention from record executives - too much attention, actually - which led to tensions that brought about the band's breakup. She got her start in the band The Stone Poneys, who scored a big hit with the Michael Nesmith song "Different Drum" in 1967. Casey Kasem described her as "the queen of remakes" for her uncanny ability to transform long-forgotten oldies (or songs from relatively unknown artists) into modern pop hits. Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American pop singer from Tucson, Arizona, who started her career in the 1960s and has gone on to sell over 60 million albums worldwide.
Collaborators: the Eagles, Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, Dolly Parton, Randy Newman
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