Amoeba Music

By Jeff Hunt

It would be relatively easy to demonize The Eagles, given the presumed audience for this website. It is easy to demonize The Eagles. The revisionist, post-indierock examination of their place in music history is relatively clinical and somewhat brutal, and it goes like this: Gram Parsons, with considerable input (and a massive amount of karmic ballast) from Chris Hillman, injects country music into The Byrds. They had flirted with it, sure, thanks to Hillman, who grew up Country, but with Sweetheart of the Rodeo in 1968. Parsons tipped the scales. Recall: The Byrds were hugely popular; the press dubbed them the California Beatles. In the 1960s, country music, country & western music, was an anthem... Read More

Genre:

Rock

City Of Origin:

Los Angeles, ,California United States

Formed Date:

1971