You're Right! A few months later, there was "Heat Wave" and "Love Is a Rose," and after that there was no stopping the young lady from Tuscon. For the rest of the decade, Linda specialized in rock 'n' roll remakes, making old hits her own in much the same way as Johnny Rivers had a decade earlier. Ronstadt made her pop debut in 1967 with the Stone Poneys. It was soon after that she began working with Neil Young. "I sang backup on a lot of his records. He'd call up and say 'I'm making a record, come on down.' He had a recording studio on this ranch. We'd record all day and end up with so much stuff I'm still not sure what made it on to the records." Few knew in those early days that both artists would go on to rewrite pop history. With seven Grammy awards and over 50 million albums sold to her credit, Ronstadt says the only formula she's ever lived by is an undying allegiance to the slow craft of songmaking.