Editing Linda Ronstadt (section)

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| quote=I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 [[time signature]], but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.|source=—Linda Ronstadt, on reconciling her musical instincts with rock 'n' roll.<ref name=MIXMag2000 />}}

Ronstadt captured the sounds of [[country music]] and the rhythms of [[ranchera]] music{{snds}}which she likened in 1968 to ''"Mexican bluegrass"''{{snds}}and redirected them into her rock 'n' roll and some of her pop music. Many of these rhythms and sounds were part of her [[Southwestern United States|Southwestern]] roots.<ref name="Soulful2">{{Cite web |title=Gypsy Eyes, Interview 1968 |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artdis.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808092638/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artdis.htm |archive-date=August 8, 2007 |access-date=May 8, 2007 |website=Cleveland Scene}}</ref> Likewise, a country sound and style, a fusion of country music and rock 'n' roll called [[country rock]], started to exert its influence on mainstream pop music around the late 1960s, and it became an emerging movement Ronstadt helped form and commercialize. However, as early as 1970, Ronstadt was being criticized by music "purists" for her "brand of music" which crossed many genres. ''Country Western Stars'' magazine wrote in 1970 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." She never categorized herself and stuck to her genre-crossing brand of music.<ref name="CWS">{{Cite web |date=March 1970 |title=Sexy new sweetheart for country western |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/cws70-3.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080109092922/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/cws70-3.html |archive-date=January 9, 2008 |access-date=April 8, 2008 |website=Country Western Stars}}</ref>