Linda Hargrove

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Linda Hargrove (married name Bartholomew, born Tallahassee, Florida February 3, 1949 – October 24, 2010, Tallahassee, Florida) was an American rock/country songwriter and musician. Linda had her first success in songwriting when she was 17 and co-wrote two songs with a friend. A Tallahassee band, the Other Side, decided to record the songs and they were hits on her hometown’s local radio station. In 1969, Linda’s brother, Lee Hargrove, was working with another local band, After All (see 1969 in music) that used poems Linda wrote set to the band’s music.^[1] The band went to Nashville to record an album and Linda went with them. Soon after, she made the decision to move to Nashville.^[2] She wrote many country music hits for a variety of artists and had a respectable career for herself in the mid-1970s. She was known as "The Blue Jean Country Queen" because she usually performed in jeans and without the elaborate makeup that other female country performers of the time. After marrying and undergoing a religious conversion, she made two gospel albums in the 1980s. She put out her final album in 2005 and died in 2010.^[3]