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Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles  (Audio CD) 
by Various Artists

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Description:

In 1993, Nashville's biggest young stars--Alan Jackson, Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gill, and others--recorded an album of Eagles songs called Common Thread. When the disc went platinum, everyone hailed it as the rebirth of country-rock. If you listened closely, though, you heard neither the down-to-earth twang of country nor the metallic aggression of rock & roll. What you heard instead was the romantic sweetness of pop. More specifically, the Eagles represented the southern California pop tradition of harmony-drenched groups like the Beach Boys, the Mamas & the Papas, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. It's a wonderful tradition, but it's misleading to call it something else. Out there in the hinterlands you can still hear authentic country-rock, an exhilarating combination of blunt adult storytelling and blazing guitars as practiced by the likes of Joe Ely, Shaver, the Bottle Rockets, Mike Henderson, and Jason and the Scorchers. Real country-rock remains a marginal commercial force, however, and the real money is in the new Nashville version of southern California harmonies. Call it "suburban pop." --Geoffrey Himes

Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date: October 12, 1993
Studio: Giant Records / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Average Customer Rating: based on 27 reviews
Track Listing:
1. Take It Easy - Travis Tritt
2. Peaceful Easy Feeling - Little Texas
3. Desperado - Clint Black
4. Heartache Tonight - John Anderson
5. Tequila Sunrise - Alan Jackson, Alan Jackson
6. Take It to the Limit - Suzy Bogguss
7. I Can't Tell You Why - Vince Gill
8. Lyin' Eyes - Diamond Rio
9. New Kid in Town - Trisha Yearwood
10. Saturday Night - Billy Dean
11. Already Gone - Tanya Tucker
12. Best of My Love - Brooks & Dunn
13. Sad Café - Lorrie Morgan
 
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4Common Thread: Songs of the Eagles  Apr 09, 2009
Good collection or tribute album of Eagles hits. Particularly liked Lorrie Morgan's "Sad Cafe".

5Common Threads  Feb 14, 2009
If you love Country Music and the Eagles, this is the CD to buy. All of the artist do a great job and some even sound like the original Eagles arrangements.

5excellant  May 15, 2008
I had this CD as a cassette years ago, I love it. I use the cassette in my walkman as I am on the treadmill, I wanted the CD for my car. I listen to this all the time.

2OK  Mar 02, 2008
THE CD WORKED BUT I WAS NOT HAPPY WITH THE WAY THE CD WAS PACKED. THE CD WAS PUT INSIDE THE PAPER COVER'S AND SHIPPED TO ME. OTHER THEN THE WAY IT WAS PACKED, I WAS HAPPY.

3Maybe You've Got to Be a Big Eagles Fan...   Aug 30, 2007
and I'm not. Too cool, too laid back, too SoCal. But also, less innocuously, they always had a consistently second-class citizen view of women -- when they are not doing the "boy" wrong, they are around only for and at the "boy"'s pleasure.

In any event, Common Thread has some of 1990's country's biggest names providing (mostly) note by note covers of the the Eagles often low-energy pop. With one exception, the best songs here are exactly the same as the best Eagles songs -- Lyin Eyes, Tequila Sunrise, and the always exuberant Take It Easy. They are sung by Diamond Rio, Alan Jackson, and Travis Tritt respectively, but it's a mark of this CD, or maybe the songs themselves, that anybody on this collection could have sung those songs with exactly the same results. The single exception is Tanya Tucker's raucous, in-your-face version of Already Gone. (Check out how, for example, she makes the lyric "Just remember this, my boy, when you look up in the sky/You can see the stars and still not see the light--that's right." her own.) Less reverence and more such individual restyling could have made Common Thread a much better CD.

 
 
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