Long Road Out of Eden
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Music CD Cover Performer: Eagles Performer: Don Henley Performer: Glenn Frey Performer: Joe Walsh Performer: Timothy B. Schmit Edition: Music CD Format: CD Published: 2007 CD Release Date: 2008-05-06 Music Label: Eagles Recording Company Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for Long Road Out of Eden Album
Free Music Review: Eagles Still Soar After All These Years....!
Hit: 4 Stars
Somehow, in the midst of everything else these days, I missed the fact that the Eagles were actually in the studio working on 'Long Road Out Of Eden', their first studio album since 1979's pseudo-swansong "The Long Run". I was beside myself when they released the CD single for 'Hole in the World' a few years back, and even enjoyed the four new tracks recorded for the 'Hell Freezes Over' CD (most especially the riotous 'Get Over It' and Don Henley's masterpiece 'Learn To Be Still').
Now, after a 28-year wait, Mr.Henley, Timothy B. Schmidt, Joe Walsh, and Glenn Frey have brought us the ambitious (yet uneven) 'Long Road Out Of Eden'. Twenty songs on two discs is a monumental feat for any band, especially if your intent is to instill some common thread and wrap the songs around some central core of meaning (which I feel a good CD should). Let's face it: Even the Beatles found this too daunting a task, as evidenced on their 1968 release 'The White Album'. (One of the few groups to wholly make the two album concept work was Pink Floyd, on their awe-inspiring epic 'The Wall'.)
'Eden' starts off and instantly makes anyone over the age of 35 feel good again about American music: the flawless harmonies sung, at times, in acapella style harken you back to the days where melody was king and the bass took a backseat to the rest of the music (as well it should). This track, 'No More Walks in the Wood', creates an eerie aura of a world that's losing ground to the senseless destruction of nature over the past three decades. Sadly, the song ends as quickly as it starts, and we are immediately whisked into the country-rock twang of J.D. Souther's 'How Long', written back in 1972. The song is likeable enough, and is reminscent of early Eagles' hits like 'Take It Easy' and 'Already Gone'. Fans will recognize it instantly as The Eagles, and will no doubt be shocked to hear that this is a song recorded in 2007 that's getting airplay and not from the early 70's album 'On The Border'. After the next two songs, the witty and cynical 'Busy Being Fabulous' and the somewhat trite balladry of 'What Do I Do With My Heart', I knew my mission as I listened to the remaining 16 songs: No longer was I looking for that common thread; that overriding concept that would link these songs to a place and time. Instead, I began looking for diamonds in the rough, and I am very pleased to say that there are gems aplenty throughout 'Eden'. Henley's 'Waiting in the Weeds' is a sweeping tale of coming to terms with a lost love- a song that would have fit nicely on his solo CD 'End of the Innocence'. Even Glenn Frey's uplifting 'No More Cloudy Days' and the reassurance of his 'You Are Not Alone' are pleasing in their own right. For me, however, the masterpiece of Disc 1 is Henley and Schmidt's 'Do Something': a song that all but begs us to stop whining and get up off our duffs and 'do something' about our gripes and senseless self-pity.
Disc 2 begins with the 10-minute title track- and this song alone is worth the $11.88 admission being charged at your local Wal-Mart in order to get your hands on this CD. Here is the hardly subtle Bush-bashing that has peppered much of Henley's solo work (Uhhh...that's both George W. and his father). This song, with its haunting Middle Eastern instrument sounds, tells the story of young Americans 'trying just to stay alive' while some back home 'smoke fine cigars' and 'eat pecan pie'. The contrasts that play out between the U.S. and Iraq are vividly realized- and punctuated by guitar riffs that ocassionally recall some of David Gilmour's best work with Pink Floyd. Frey's instrumental interlude 'I Dreamed There Was No War' provides a nice segue from the title track to Jack Tempchin's 'Somebody', which I can't help but feel is a message aimed directly at the leaders of our current administration- 'You'll get yours in the end'. 'Frail Grasp on the Big Picture' is listenable and interesting, though ultimately feels like it's trying to take on too much in its 5-plus minutes (politics, love, and religion!). Joe Walsh's 'Last Good Time in Town' feels like a servicable sequel to Hotel California's 'New Kid in Town'; 'Business As Usual' is Henley as we've heard him before, wishing for a change in leadership, direction, and commitment; 'Center of the Universe' is either an apology or a backhanded compliment to a long lost love; and the whole affair ends with Frey's light and breezy, trumpet-inflected 'It's Your World Now'. The final track can be interpreted in multiple ways. On one hand, it's a gift from an aging father- a world that has changed, for better or worse, during his lifetime; on another, it's a gift from an aging band: It's almost as if The Eagles are saying they've (finally) put in and done their time, they've created and played their music that defined at least one American decade, and they're now leaving the stage, much as they had stormed onto it initially nearly four decades ago. Today, on 'Eden', the evidence is there that these players are polished, if not masterful, musicians and still of very strong voice, either individually or in harmonic unison. The overall effect is pleasing to this 40-something purveyor of music, and something about the first new studio album by these musical icons since I was a 16-year old kid newly driving is more than comforting; reassuring- like maybe I'm not getting as old as the candles on my recent birthday cakes are saying... Regardless, I sense that I am falling comfortably into a life of blissful contentment and complacency, and I'm more than all right with that. The Eagles, as men and as musicians, have fallen into a place of happiness and complacency too. And, in the long run, I'm more than all right with that as well...