Glenn Frey - Soul Searchin' (CD) True Love LIVIN' RIGHT
Mint Condition!!! Original 1988 CD Release OUT OF PRINT
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Glenn Frey - Soul Searchin' (CD)
ORIGINAL 1988 MCA RELEASE!!!
Used CD in LIKE NEW, EXCELLENT playing condition!!! No Skips, No Freeze ups!!! No Scratches, No Scuff Marks!!! CD and all artwork included. CD and inserts are in excellent condition. Case has normal wear.
A perfect example of just how great Glenn's solo works were, is this
album, SOUL SEARCHIN'. It's filled with great songs. There were some
major hits from this release but it's rare that you hear any of these
songs anymore on the radio. Yet another case of how the state of radio
has declined over the last decade or so.
Track listing 1. Livin' Right 2. Some Kind of Blue 3. True Love 4. Can't Put Out This Fire 5. I Did It For Your Love 6. Let's Pretend We're Still in Love 7. Working Man 8. Soul Searchin' 9. Two Hearts 10. It's Your Life
Product Details
Audio CD (August 1988)
Original Release Date: August 1988
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Mca
Glenn Frey Biography
Glenn Frey is best known as one of the two most popular and longest
tenured members (along with Don Henley) of the Eagles, and as an
intermittently successful solo artist in the decades since that band
ceased being a full-time working group. Although associated closely
with the Eagles' brand of Southern California-spawned laid-back
country-rock, Frey's origins were a long way away from either the place
or the music that his work came to epitomize. He was born in Detroit in
1948, and grew up in Royal Oak, MI. Music was just one of many
interests that drove him during childhood -- a precocious youth, he was
an avid reader and, despite his relatively small stature, a serious
athlete in elementary and junior high school. He also took piano
lessons from age five -- at the insistence of his parents -- until just
before his teen years. His interests in high school included such
advanced and outre subjects for the time as the writings of
Jack Kerouac and the films and image of actor James Dean, who died when
Frey was seven years old; they reflected a rebellious and aggressive
nature that also manifested itself in an attraction to rock & roll.
The music had come along during Frey's childhood -- he was seven when
"Rock Around the Clock" shot to number one on the charts, and eight
when Elvis Presley became a national phenomenon. In contrast to his
future bandmate Timothy B. Schmit, Frey was never a would-be folkie,
but jumped right into rock & roll, especially after he saw -- at
age 16 -- how girls reacted to rock stars on stage.He took up the
guitar in earnest after seeing the Beatles perform in 1964, and passed
through several amateur and semi-professional Detroit-based bands in
his late teens, including the Mushrooms, who became a major local
attraction on the local television show Robin Seymour's Swinging Time,
and appeared regularly at a teen club called The Hideout, as well as
cutting a single, "Such a Lovely Child," for Hideout Records (produced
by a somewhat older, more advanced local rocker named Bob Seger). The
Mushrooms split soon after, and Frey joined the folk-rock group the
Four of Us; he subsequently formed two more Detroit teen bands, the
Subterraneans and the Heavy Metal Kids. Frey attended college somewhat
reluctantly, preferring to devote most of his energy to playing music,
chasing girls, and smoking marijuana -- in the course of his early
career, he did manage to sit in on a couple of sessions with Seger, and
at age 19 played acoustic guitar and sang backup on "Ramblin' Gamblin'
Man" from the latter's Capitol Records debut in 1968.Frey eventually
decided, however, that Detroit wasn't the place for him to launch a
serious career in rock music and headed west to California. He was
fortunate enough to make contact with John David Souther, a fellow
Detroit transplant who was already a promising practitioner of what
would soon be known as country-rock. He was dating Frey's girlfriend's
sister, and he soon showed Frey how to play and sing country music,
which was increasingly making itself felt in the rock music coming out
of the Golden State. The two tried composing as a team, even landing a
publishing contract that helped keep them going during those lean
late-'60s years, splitting 90 dollars a week between them -- the
publishing deal fell apart through their inability to write the kind of
commercial material that was being sought, but in the course of writing
together, they also developed a coherent sound that soon became very
attractive, and something they could build on. Thus was born Longbranch
Pennywhistle, a country-rock group whose timing was a little premature
on a commercial level but not too soon to be signed to Amos Records, a
small Los Angeles-based label. The group's self-titled album, which
included Doug Kershaw, as well as Ry Cooder and the renowned L.A.
sessionmen James Burton on guitar, Larry Knechtel on piano, and Joe
Osborn on bass, never got the promotion it would have taken to make it
a success. Souther and Frey kept making the rounds of the folk clubs in
the city and the surrounding area, crossing paths with the likes of
Jackson Browne -- then an ex-member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with
some great songs to his credit as a composer -- and Linda Ronstadt.
Eventually, Frey, Souther, and Browne ended up sharing a house
together, and the two of them sang on Browne's demo of "Jamaica Say You
Will." Browne was already being managed by David Geffen, who, at
Browne's urging, also became Frey's informal music business advisor.
Meanwhile, he and Souther were forced to disband their own group in
order to get out of the contract with Amos Records, which seemed like a
dead end, and both spent a fair amount of time around The Troubadour,
the club that constituted the folk-rock mecca for the West Coast. Frey
wanted to try and form a new group, but was persuaded instead to
consider going on the road backing Linda Ronstadt, who was about to
tour in support of the release of her debut Asylum Records album, Silk
Purse. Frey also met Don Henley, who was in a band called Shiloh --
which was also signed to Amos Records and also getting nowhere fast --
and persuaded him, in the course of their mutual commiserations, to
join the band working behind Ronstadt. The ranks of the band, formed in
the summer of 1971, eventually came to include Frey and Henley, and
Randy Meisner, who'd lately played with Rick Nelson on-stage and on the
Rudy the Fifth album, and ex-Flying Burrito Brothers member Bernie
Leadon. Within a short time, however, they'd made plans to separate
themselves from Ronstadt and go off on their own. After a cold audition
-- with no advance demo tape -- in front of Geffen, they had a manager
and, after getting Frey out of his contract with Amos Records, they
went to Colorado for some time off. There they worked out who they were
and what their sound would be, picked up their first producer, Glyn
Johns, took on the name the Eagles, and were signed to Geffen's newly
formed Asylum Records.Although all four members of the Eagles composed
songs and sang, Frey and Henley quickly emerged as the two with the
most commercial musical ears, Frey as co-author (with Jackson Browne)
and lead singer on their first single, "Take It Easy," which reached
number 12 on the charts in the summer of 1972, and Henley as co-author
(with Leadon) of "Witchy Woman," which got to number nine that fall.
Although the group had succeeded in attracting generally favorable
press attention and reasonably good sales, with one Top Ten single and
a debut album that peaked at number 22 in a seven-week run on the
charts, Frey and Henley between them decided that this was not enough,
and that their next album would have to be something more than just a
body of good tunes and a couple of AM-friendly cuts -- between them,
they turned what became Desperado into a very ambitious (for the time)
thematic-based concept album, which was something relatively unusual in
country-rock. Frey and Henley also co-wrote the title track, which was
perhaps the finest album track in the group's history (although it's
arguable that every track on Desperado that didn't make it onto a 45
fits into that category). Although the concept caught Leadon and
Meisner by surprise, especially as songwriters, they quickly came
aboard and Desperado ended up being one of the finest records ever to
come out of the '70s country-rock scene.And it was a measure of the
unity that the band still felt at this time that, when Desperado
stalled on the charts just outside of the Top 40 and neither of its two
singles did better than number 59 -- mostly owing to disorganization of
Asylum Records at the time, which was being sold and merged with
Elektra Records -- all of the members took this as a professional
affront. Frey's singing also improved markedly between the first two
albums, and he was now effectively, with Henley, the one of two
co-equal focal points in the band. By the time of their third album, a
fifth Eagle had joined in the guise of Don Felder, whose guitar sound
toughened up the band's overall sound, and especially their harder rock
& roll side. By the time he joined, for the On the Border album,
which marked a commercial comeback, peaking at number 17, the band had
split into two divisions, with Frey and Henley more or less the stable
core, while Leadon -- who wasn't entirely happy over Felder's guitar
being added to their sound, when he wanted to play more straight-ahead
electric guitar -- and Meisner seemed to be part of a less cohesive
unit just outside of that core. By the time they toured in support of
their fourth album, One of These Nights, Leadon was on his way out, to
be replaced by Joe Walsh, and Meisner followed out the door on the
Hotel California tour. By that time, Frey and Henley (in coordination
with their manager, Irving Azoff, a protégé of Geffen's who'd taken the
latter's place when he became too wired up in running his record
label), as co-authors of the string of hit singles that included "One
of These Nights," "Lyin' Eyes," "Take It to the Limit," "Hotel
California," "New Kid in Town," "Life in the Fast Lane," "The Long
Run," "I Can't Tell You Why," and "Heartache Tonight," and one or the
other of them on lead vocals for all but two of those songs, were more
or less running things. Walsh, Felder, and new member Timothy B. Schmit
stayed along for the ride that continued through 1982, when Frey and
Henley, in conjunction with the others -- all of whom were now set up
financially better than they ever could have dreamed, following a
string of arena- and stadium-scale tours, hit singles, and three more
multi-million-selling albums -- put the group on hiatus. What's more,
the Eagles' catalog continued to sell for decades after, on LP and CD,
in multiple editions of the latter.Frey began a solo career in 1982
with No Fun Aloud, notching a pair of Top 40 hits with "I Found
Somebody" and "The One You Love." He also embarked on an unexpected
acting career in the wake of 1984's The Allnighter, which spawned the
hit "Smuggler's Blues," a song that subsequently inspired an episode of
the hit TV series Miami Vice on which Frey guest starred; his acting
work later continued in an extended guest role on the acclaimed Wiseguy
as well as a starring turn in 1993's South of Sunset, which as a result
of its premiere episode's 6.1 Nielsen rating -- believed to be the
lowest fall debut in major network history -- was canceled after only
one episode.Frey's solo musical career reached its peak in 1985 with
the Top Ten smash "The Heat Is On," a single from the soundtrack to the
Eddie Murphy comedy Beverly Hills Cop. Frey's contribution to the Miami
Vice soundtrack, "You Belong to the City," was also a blockbuster,
narrowly missing the top of the charts. However, his next solo LP, Soul
Searchin', did not follow until 1988, notching only one Top 40 entry,
"True Love"; Strange Weather, issued four years later, missed the
charts altogether. After issuing Glenn Frey Live in 1993, he joined the
reunited Eagles on their phenomenally successful Hell Freezes Over
tour, with a live album of the same name reaching number one a year
later. Since then, his releases have consisted of compilations of
earlier solo work. In the late '90s, Frey co-founded his own label,
Mission Records, with attorney Peter Lopez.
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