Don Henley | A Greatest Singer
Donald Hugh Henley (born July 22, 1947) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and founding member of the Eagles. Henley was the drummer and co-lead vocalist for the Eagles from 1971 to 1980, when the band broke up, and from 1994 to 2016, when they reunited. Following a year-long break due to Eagles founder Glenn Frey’s death, Henley reformed the band in summer 2017 for the Classic West and Classic East rock festivals, hiring Vince Gill and Deacon Frey to replace Glenn and becoming the last remaining original member. Henley sang the lead vocals on Eagles hits such as “Witchy Woman”, “Desperado”, “Best of My Love”, “One of These Nights”, “Hotel California”, “Life in the Fast Lane”, “The Long Run” and “Get Over It”,More info:wiki
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Standing in a lounge in Nashville’s Hermitage Hotel, Don Henley is in desperate need of a bottle opener. He’s holding a glass bottle of water, but, alas, the cap isn’t a twist-off. “You have an opener?” he asks me. I don’t, but I try the old trick of hammering the cap off using the edge of a table. After a few loud, really loud, pounds, it finally pops off. Henley’s publicist pokes his head in the room, looking concerned. “Don’t worry,” Henley says. “We haven’t come to blows.”
Henley is known for his testy streak, but today he seems relaxed, maybe a bit tired, though eager to chat about his new solo album—his first in fifteen years—Cass County. It’s been referred to as Henley’s country record, but that does a disservice to the trove of country-inflected megahits Henley helped pen for the Eagles during their thirty-plus years together. Rather, Cass County is Henley’s Texas record, a return to his roots with Henley invoking memories from his formative years in Linden, his hometown in East Texas. As a kid, he would listen to the radio show Louisiana Hayride, a bad-boy version of the Grand Ole Opry. Broadcast from KWKH in nearby Shreveport, the show gave Elvis and Hank Williams their early breaks.
#8 Don Henley makes it count in ACL TV debut,More info:austin360
The stage for Don Henley’s first-ever taping of “Austin City Limits” on Wednesday evening at ACL Live had been full from the outset, with a stellar supporting cast of 10 instrumentalists plus a parade of big-name guest vocalists: Ashley Monroe and Jamey Johnson early, Martina McBride and Trisha Yearwood later, plus a couple of Dixie Chicks ringers at the end.
But midway through the set, most of the musicians departed and left Henley with a minimal crew for a special moment in a night of special moments. “I only do this song when I’m in Texas,” he said, as guitar ace Steuart Smith shuffled back to piano for the graceful opening measures of “Talking to the Moon.”
Co-written with fellow native Texan J.D. Souther and recorded on Henley’s 1982 solo debut “I Can’t Stand Still,” the song struck upon a theme that the Eagles co-founder is revisiting at length more than 30 years later. Eleven of the 16 songs in his set for the taping came from “Cass County,” the most overtly country record of Henley’s career and an album that finds Henley digging deep into his East Texas roots.
The album’s theme made it a perfect fit for “Austin City Limits,” combined with the fact that Henley had never appeared on the program. Even by ACL’s high standards, this was one of the most carefully crafted and exquisitely presented tapings in the show’s history. Despite the challenge of all those special guests and so many instrumentalists — two guitarists, two keyboardists, bass and drums, pedal steel and three backup singers — I’ve never heard the acoustics at ACL Live sound better than on this night.
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After the death of cofounder Glenn Frey in January, one could assume there will never be another performance by the Eagles.
It’s another to hear Frey’s partner in the band, Don Henley, say those words himself.
“Naturally, I’m sad that it’s over, and I’m still trying to process Glenn’s death,” Henley says during a phone call. “I think about him every day.”
When Frey’s name comes up during the course of the conversation, it becomes clear that Henley is still shaken by the loss. One way he’s dealing with it is by putting effort into his solo career, touring with a large band that includes a horn section and three backup singers.
Henley sees himself as the curator of the Eagles catalog, and at recent shows he has been playing a handful of Eagles songs along with selections from his most recent solo album, “Cass County,” his country duet album that includes contributions from Mick Jagger, Dolly Parton, the late Merle Haggard (who also died this year) and several others.
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