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.
[2] She wrote many country music hits for a variety of artists and had a respectable career for herself in the mid-1970s.
After marrying and undergoing a religious conversion, she made two gospel albums in the 1980s.