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==== Touring ==== {{quote box | width=30% | align=right | quote=[[Judy Henske]], who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at [[The Troubadour (Los Angeles)|The Troubadour]], "Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers." |source=βLinda Ronstadt<ref name="Windy">{{Cite web |last=Shapiro |first=Gregg |date=February 1, 2003 |title=The Very Best: Linda Ronstadt |url=http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=451 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061121142054/http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=451 |archive-date=November 21, 2006 |access-date=July 31, 2008 |website=Windy City Times}}</ref>}} Soon after she went solo in the late 1960s, one of her first backing bands was the pioneering country-rock band [[Swampwater]], which combined [[Cajun music|Cajun]] and [[swamp rock]] elements in their music. Its members included Cajun fiddler [[Gib Guilbeau]] and [[John Beland]], who later joined [[the Flying Burrito Brothers]],<ref name="swamprock">{{Cite web |last=jason |date=May 20, 2007 |title=Swampwater "Swampwater" |url=http://therisingstorm.net/swampwater-swampwater/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609171143/http://therisingstorm.net/swampwater-swampwater/ |archive-date=June 9, 2007 |access-date=June 14, 2007 |website=The Rising Storm}}</ref> as well as Stan Pratt, Thad Maxwell, and Eric White, brother of [[Clarence White]] of [[the Byrds]]. Swampwater went on to back Ronstadt during TV appearances on ''[[The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)|The Johnny Cash Show]]''<ref name=swampwater>{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=John |date=May 2003 <!-- Article refers to 2000 in the past; 2003 was the only year with Monday, May 19, between 2000 and the accessdate--> |title=John Beland |url=http://www.barkingspider.abelgratis.com/artists/beland.shtml?functions |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070803012815/http://www.barkingspider.abelgratis.com/artists/beland.shtml?functions |archive-date=August 3, 2007 |access-date=June 14, 2007 |website=The Barking Spider}}</ref> and ''[[The Mike Douglas Show]]'', and at the [[Big Sur Folk Festival]].<ref name="BigSur">{{Cite web |title=Gib Guilbeau, 1970β1972 |url=http://members.chello.at/thomas.aubrunner/gib4.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609103002/http://members.chello.at/thomas.aubrunner/gib4.htm |archive-date=June 9, 2007 |access-date=June 14, 2007 |website=Swampwater}}</ref> Another backing band included [[Don Henley]], [[Glenn Frey]], [[Bernie Leadon]], and [[Randy Meisner]], who went on to form the [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]]. They toured with her for a short period in 1971 and played on ''[[Linda Ronstadt (album)|Linda Ronstadt]]'', her eponymous third album, from which a failed single, Ronstadt's version of Browne's "[[Rock Me on the Water]]", was drawn. At this stage, Ronstadt began working with producer and boyfriend [[John Boylan (record producer)|John Boylan]]. She said, "As soon as I started working with John Boylan, I started co-producing myself. I was always a part of my productions. But I always needed a producer who would carry out my whims."<ref name=MIXMag2000 /> Also in 1971, Ronstadt began talking with [[David Geffen]] about moving from Capitol Records to Geffen's [[Asylum Records]] label.<ref>See generally Tom King, ''The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood'', p. 159, 173, Broadway Books (New York 2001).</ref> In 1975, Ronstadt performed shows with Jackson Browne, the Eagles, and [[Toots and the Maytals]].<ref name="Eliot2004">{{Cite book |last=Eliot |first=Marc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_EjE6-iyQoC&pg=PA119 |title=To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles |date=December 29, 2004 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=978-0-306-81398-6 |pages=119β |access-date=December 15, 2016}}{{Dead link |date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> In these shows she would sing lead vocal on numerous songs including the Eagles' "[[Desperado (Eagles song)|Desperado]]" while singing background and playing tambourine and acoustic guitar on others.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK7zrQohecE |title=The Eagles Long Run Live | Full Music Documentary Movie | Don Henley | Linda Ronstadt |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=March 1, 2023 |archive-date=March 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301234706/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK7zrQohecE |url-status=live}}</ref> Several years before Ronstadt became what author Gerri Hirshey called the first "arena-class rock diva" with "hugely anticipated tours"<ref name="doubleplatinum" /> she began her solo career touring the North American concert circuit. Being on the road took its toll both emotionally and professionally. In a 1976 ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' interview with [[Cameron Crowe]], Ronstadt said, "they haven't invented a word for that loneliness that everybody goes through on the road. The world is tearing by you, real fast, and all these people are looking at you. ... People see me in my 'girl-singer' suit."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Crowe |first=Cameron |date=December 2, 1976 |title=Linda Ronstadt: The Million-Dollar Woman |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artrs76.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706155746/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artrs76.htm |archive-date=July 6, 2008 |access-date=July 31, 2008 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref> In 1974 she told [[Peter Knobler]] in ''[[Crawdaddy!|Crawdaddy]]'', "People are always taking advantage of you; everybody that's interested in you has got an angle."<ref>Knobler, Peter. [http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artcrw74.htm "Linda Ronstadt: It's Not That Easy Being the Pretty Girl on the Block"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010004/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artcrw74.htm |date=March 5, 2016}} ''[[Crawdaddy]]'', June 1974.</ref> There were few "girl singers" on the rock circuit at the time, and they were relegated to "groupie level when in a crowd of a bunch of rock and roll guys", a status Ronstadt avoided.<ref name="groupie">{{Cite web |last=Senoff |first=Pete |date=December 26, 1969 |title=Female Rocker Roundup: Linda Ronstadt, Lynn Carey, Lydia Pense, Nansi Nevins β Part 1 |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intfus1.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314091408/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intfus1.htm |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |access-date=November 25, 2012 |website=Fusion}}</ref> Relating to men on a professional level as fellow musicians led to competition, insecurity, bad romances, and a series of boyfriend-managers. At the time, she admired singers like [[Maria Muldaur]] for not sacrificing their femininity but says she felt enormous self-imposed pressure to compete with "the boys" at every level.<ref name="Soulful">{{Cite book |last=Orloff |first=Katherine |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intwom2.htm |title=Rock 'n' Roll Woman |publisher=Nash Pub |year=1974 |access-date=May 8, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927184415/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intwom2.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> She noted in a 1969 interview in ''Fusion'' magazine that it was difficult being a single "chick singer" with an all-male backup band.<ref name=groupie /> According to her, it was difficult to get a band of backing musicians because of their ego problem of being labeled sidemen for a female singer.<ref name="backupband2">{{Cite web |last=Senoff |first=Pete |date=December 26, 1969 |title=Female Rocker Roundup: Linda Ronstadt, Lynn Carey, Lydia Pense, Nansi Nevins β Part 2 |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intfus2.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314090835/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intfus2.htm |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |access-date=November 25, 2012 |website=Fusion Magazine}} ([http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intfus1.htm Part 1] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314091408/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intfus1.htm |date=March 14, 2012}})</ref>
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