Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles

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1. Take It Easy – Travis Tritt 3:32 2. Peaceful Easy Feeling – Little Texas 4:19 3. Desperado – Clint Black 3:38 4. Heartache Tonight – John Anderson 4:23 5. Tequila Sunrise – Alan Jackson 2:53 6. Take It to the Limit – Suzy Bogguss 4:32 7. I Can’t Tell You Why – Vince Gill 4:04 8. Lyin’ Eyes – Diamond Rio 6:30 9. New Kid in Town – Trisha Yearwood 5:07 10. Saturday Night – Billy Dean 3:25 11. Already Gone – Tanya Tucker 5:00 12. Best of My Love – Brooks & Dunn 4:38 13. The Sad Café – Lorrie Morgan 4:45

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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