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When Linda Hargrove arrived in Nashville 38 years ago she was without peer or role model.
There were no women playing guitars on sessions, much less playing on master
sessions.There were less than a handful of women songwriters. Within a year, Linda was
playing on records with A-Team players and having her songs recorded by major recording
artists.
Linda recorded for 3 major label throughout the 70's,
releasing 5 albums and charting a number of singles. She toured extensively with her band
throughout the US playing concerts, fairs, festivals and clubs. The Country Music World
wasn't ready for a "Redneck Woman" much less a "Blue Jean Country
Queen" in the 70's and 80's.
Linda got married in 1980 and made a major change in her career,
focusing her music in the gospel and inspirational genre. She released two gospel albums
in the 80's. She continued to tour and perform in the U.S and in England.
Linda's career took an even more drastic turn and was literally
"put on hold" when she was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia in 1986.
She was given the prognosis of death within 6 to 8 years, but three years later in 1989
she was told that her death was imminent without intervention. She underwent an
experimental bone marrow transplant in 1990 at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL.
She was the only patient out of 30 others in the study to survive and remains Moffitt's
longest surviving transplant patient.
Linda returned to Nashville to resume her career in 1993 only to
put it on hold again in 1995 while she took care of her husband, Charlie, who was
diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Charlie was institutionalized in 1997 and Linda left
Nashville in 1999, relocating to Panacea, FL. near Tallahassee where she grew up.
The completion of 'ONE WOMAN'S LIFE" - a project Linda started in
1995 and released in 2005 marked a milestone in the miraculous story of this artist/
songwriter's career. The self-produced and self-engineered project was the first CD-format
album she released in her entire career.
Linda continues actively to write, perform, record, and produce
music- her own and that of others. She recentely completed producing a track for Grant
Peeples' new CD due out in May 2008, in addition to performing in local venues and events.
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"Add up all the tears
Take away the years
And multiply them by the miles
Then divide them by the trials
And you'll figure out
The sum of ONE WOMAN'S LIFE"
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Linda's CD
"ONE WOMAN'S LIFE"
is NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE!!
Purchase CD online now!
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