![]() “You write four lines or you write six lines or you write two lines that you think are really good. “Sometimes when you get together and you’re having a conversation, and you’re sitting there with legal pads and guitars or taped music, and you’re trying to write a song, every once in a while you’ll have these moments when you go, ‘How about this?’” said Frey. “El Blurto” was the name Frey gave to his decades-long working relationship with Tempchin. He also co-penned Frey’s 1985 Miami Vice hit, “You Belong to the City,” along with “Sexy Girl,” “Smuggler’s Blues, “True Love,” ‘The One You Love,” and “I Found Somebody,” among others.įor Tempchin’s 2019 album, One More Time With Feeling, the title track was a song Glenn Frey co-wrote with him before his death in 2016. Tempchin co-wrote a majority of Frey’s solo albums, from his 1982 debut, No Fun Aloud, to his fourth album, Strange Weather in 1992. A longtime collaborator of the band, Tempchin wrote the Eagles’ “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” off their 1972 debut, and co-wrote the band’s “Somebody,” The Girl From Yesterday,” “It’s Your World Now,” and “Already Gone.”Īlong with his own solo material, Tempchin continued working with Frey when he embarked on his solo career. The collaborative team of Jack Tempchin and Glenn Frey started from the Eagles’ inception. “One More Time With Feeling,” Jack Tempchin (2019) On his later albums, Souther also covered several Eagles songs he co-wrote with the band, including “Best in Town, “Best of My Love,” “The Sad Cafe,” and “New Kid in Town.”Īnd all the wrong women dancin’ Jesus the swingĤ. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, Frey co-wrote one track with Souther: “‘Til the Bars Burn Down.” On the album, Souther also covered a song he originally wrote with Frey for Nicolette Larson ( see above), “The Last in Love.” For his third album, You’re Only Lonely, which hit No. Souther also continued working with Frey and Don Henley, who both kicked off their solo careers in 1982.Īlong with writing songs for Linda Ronstadt, Souther also released his own music. In between composing music for the 1980 romantic drama Urban Cowboy and John Waters’ comedy Cry-Baby a decade later, Souther became a longtime Eagles collaborator and co-wrote some of their biggest hits. Glenn Frey and John David “J.D.” Souther started out together as a country-folk duo Longbranch Pennywhistle and released their self-titled debut in 1969. Gary Davis’ classic version of “Cocaine Blues” on guitar, HERE.ģ. It’s such a fine line I hate to see it go Now I’m losing touch with reality and I’m almost out of blow He said, “Son, it says here you’re twenty-seven,Ĭocaine you look like you could be forty-five“ I was talking to my doctor down at the hospital Ladanyi come knockin’ down my hotel room door Late last night about a quarter past four Co-written with Glenn Frey, the two added on additional lyrics to the Davis version, crafting yet another version of the song. Prior to Browne, Led Zeppelin, Nick Drake and Townes Van Zandt, and many other acts had previously covered Davis’ version throughout the late 1960s and ’70s.īrowne took the “Cocaine” ballad and turned it into more of an elegy for addiction. Davis said that he originally learned the song, also known as “Coco Blues,” in 1905 from Porter Irving, a traveling carnival musician, and later recorded it on his album, Pure Religion and Bad Company. When Jackson Browne was piecing together his fifth album, Running on Empty, he gravitated toward the folk and gospel singer Reverend Gary Davis’ 1965 version of the song. Johnny Cash even performed the song during his 1968 Folsom Prison concert. There was “Cocaine Blues,” penned by Troy Junius Arnall, who reworked the uncredited folk ballad “Little Sadie” to tell the story of Willy Lee, who murders his unfaithful girlfriend while under the influence of cocaine and whiskey. Inside room 124 at the Holiday Inn in Edwardsville, Illinois on August 17, 1977, Jackson Browne recorded “Cocaine.” Originally a folk-western murder ballad, the song had countless iterations throughout the 20th century. Original lyrics by Reverend Gary Davis additional lyrics by Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne ![]() In between the more memorable and classic works within his lengthy catalog, here are four songs Frey wrote for other artists from the late ’70s through 2010s. 18, 2016, at the age of 67, was one master songwriter. Continuing to dabble in acting, Frey also starred in episodes of the TV series Wiseguy, the Don Johnson and Cheech Marin police drama Nash Bridges, and Cameron Crowe’s 1996 film Jerry Maguire, among other roles.įrey released five solo albums throughout his career, including his fifth and final album, After Hours, in 2012.įrom his 1970s Eagles’ classics through ’80s hits, Frey, who died on Jan.
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