Editing Linda Ronstadt (section)

=== Beginning of professional career ===
At age 14, Ronstadt formed a folk trio with her brother Peter and sister Gretchen. The group played coffeehouses, fraternity houses, and other small venues, billing themselves as "the Union City Ramblers" and "the Three Ronstadts", and they even recorded themselves at a Tucson studio under the name "the New Union Ramblers".<ref name=MIXMag2000 /> Their repertoire included the music they grew up on{{snds}}folk, country, bluegrass, and Mexican.<ref name="ramblers">{{Cite web |last=Barnard |first=Russ |date=October 1978 |title=Linda Ronstadt: The Queen of Rock & Roll is also a Queen of Country Music |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artcm78.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808092706/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artcm78.htm |archive-date=August 8, 2007 |access-date=May 11, 2007 |website=[[Country Music (magazine)|Country Music]]}}</ref> But increasingly, Ronstadt wanted to make a union of folk music and rock 'n' roll,<ref name=hamill /> and in 1964, after a semester at the University of Arizona,<ref>{{cite web |title=Linda Ronstadt |url=https://alumni.arizona.edu/notable-alumni/linda-ronstadt |website=University of Arizona Alumni |access-date=June 6, 2023}}</ref> the 18-year-old decided to move to Los Angeles.<ref name="LATimes">{{Cite news |last=Lewis |first=Randy |date=August 20, 2010 |title=Linda Ronstadt remembers Kenny Edwards: 'A beacon to me' |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/08/linda-ronstadt-kenny-edwards.html |url-status=live |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823080906/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/08/linda-ronstadt-kenny-edwards.html |archive-date=August 23, 2010 |access-date=September 4, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Soulful" /><ref name="Claire">{{Cite book |last=Claire |first=Vivian |title=Linda Ronstadt |publisher=Flash Books |year=1978 |isbn=0-8256-3918-2 |location=New York |page=10}}</ref>