DBL ALBUM. Linda Ronstadt – A Retrospective is a 1977 compilation album featuring 22 tracks, focusing on her early career and recordings from 1967 to 1974. It acts as a definitive portrait of her work before her massive multi-platinum 1970s success, covering tracks from her early era.

The album covers her early country-rock, folk, and soft-rock style, including songs like Long Long Time and Silver Threads And Golden Needles, Documenting her evolution from her time with The Stone Poneys through her early solo albums, such as Silk Purse and Don’t Cry Now.

This album was released to capitalize on her skyrocketing fame following her 1974 hit album Heart Like a Wheel.