Here are some perspectives on Linda Ronstadt's self-titled album, which celebrated its 50th anniversary of release. The album Linda Ronstadt was released by Capitol Records on January 17, 1972; and while it was nowhere near a hit album, it nevertheless showed Linda moving closer to what her ideas of mixing the traditional spirit of country music with the progressivism of California-based rock were all about:
"I don't think of myself as a star. I didn't set out to become a star, I set out to become a singer. I would have sung no matter what. The star part is just something that they made up in Hollywood in 1930."--Linda Ronstadt