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Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles

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Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0075992453127
Label : Giant Records / Wea
Manufacturer : Giant Records / Wea
Publisher : Giant Records / Wea
Release date : 1993-10-12
Title : Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles
Original release date : 1993-10-12
Studio : Giant Records / Wea
MPN : 24531
Number of discs : 1

Editorial reviews

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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

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-05-15 rating:

excellant
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.

review by: date: 2008-03-02 rating:

OK
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.

review by: date: 2007-08-30 rating:

Maybe You've Got to Be a Big Eagles Fan...
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.

review by: date: 2007-01-10 rating:

Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles
This is the best. We had this on a cassette and replaced it with a CD so that we could continue enjoying the music.

review by: date: 2007-01-04 rating:

Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles
A remarkable and most enjoyable CD for one's collection

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