THE EAGLES - TEQUILA SUNRISE

TEQUILA SUNRISE

THE EAGLES

SONGWRITERS:  DON HENLEY & GLENN FREY

WHERE: LIVE ABC 1973

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DESPERADO

LABEL: ASYLUM

GENRE: COUNTRY ROCK

YEAR: 1973

"Tequila Sunrise" is a 1973 song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, and recorded by the Eagles. It was the first single from the band's second álbum Desperado. The song peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100.

A cover version was recorded by country music singer Alan Jackson on the 1993 tribute album Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles. It peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Glenn Frey and Don Henley did not write songs together for their debut álbum Eagles, and they decided that they should collaborate after they had finished recording the debut album. According to Frey, he was lying on a couch playing the guitar, and came up with a guitar riff he described as "kinda Roy Orbison, kinda Mexican". He showed Henley the guitar riff and said: "Maybe we should write something to this." The title refers to a cocktail named Tequila Sunrise that was then popular. In the liner notes of 2003's The Very Best Of, Henley had this to say about the song:

I believe that was a Glenn title. I think he was ambivalent about it because he thought that it was a bit too obvious or too much of a cliché because of the drink that was so popular then. I said, 'No-Look at it from a different point of view. You've been drinking straight tequila all night and the sun is coming up!' It turned out to be a really great song.

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. The founding members were Glenn Frey(guitars, vocals), Don Henley(drums, vocals), Bernie Leadon(guitars, vocals) and Randy Meisner(bass guitar, vocals). With five number-one singles, six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, and six number-one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. At the end of the 20th century, two of their albums, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and Hotel California, were ranked among the 20 best-selling albums in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America. By 2006, both albums were among the top three best-selling albums in the United States. Hotel California is ranked 37th in Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and the band was ranked number 75 on the magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

It's another tequila sunrise

Stirrin slowly across the sky

Said goodbye

He was just a hired hand

Workin on the dreams he planned to try

The days go by

Every night when the sun goes down

Just another lonely boy in town

And she's out runnin round

She wasn't just another woman

But man I couldn't keep from comin on

It's been so long

Whoa and it's a hollow feelin

When it comes down to dealin friends

It never ends

Take another shot of courage

Wonder why the right words never come

You just get numb

It's another tequila sunrise

And this old world still looks the same

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