Long Road Out Of Eden

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By 2007, it had been nearly 30 years since the Eagles had released a new album. So it was a surprise when the band announced 2007’s <i>Long Road Out of Eden</i>, a sprawling 20-track double album of new material. Back in the 1970, Don Henley and Glenn Frey wrote their biggest songs at each other’s Hollywood homes after nights out on the town. This time, things were different: Frey worked out of his West LA studio, while Henley worked in Malibu, with the two emailing their contributions to one another—a setup that allowed them to avoid the inevitable in-person friction. Their longtime producer, Bill Szymczyk, returned to serve as "a mediator, a consigliere, a ringmaster," while Henley and Frey wrote about more serious topic, like the death of the American dream. Just listen to the title track, a menacing, 10-minute Henley epic about greedy oil men. Then there’s “Business as Usual,” in which Henley—an outspoken environmentalist—sings about how “nature’s buried in the rubble.” Frey’s “I Dreamed There Was No War,” meanwhile, is a spare, meditative electric guitar instrumental that proves the Eagles don’t even have to sing to record a classic. .

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