On the Border
Occupation
- Glenn Frey - lead vocals, guitar, keyboard, harmonium, piano
- Don Henley - Lead vocals, drums, tablas
- Randy Meisner - lead vocals, bass, guitar
- Bernie Leadon - Lead vocals, guitars, banjo, mandolin
- Don Felder - lead vocals, guitars
On the Border is the third studio album released in 1974 by the U.S. rock band Eagles. That in the United States more than two million copies sold album marks the stylistic evolution from country-rock to mainstream rock and is the first album with guitarist and vocalist Don Felder, who expanded the band to a quintet.
Genesis
The band tried during the recording sessions at Olympic Studios in London to harder sounds. The music producer Glyn Johns was replaced after the recordings for the two titles You Never Cry Like a Lover and Best of My Love by Bill Szymczyk and moved the sessions in the music studio at the Record Plant in Los Angeles. The change was justified by the fact that John's in the Country of production elements and the harmonies emphasize, while Frey and Henley intended a harder sound. Szymczyk had already worked with the blues guitarist BB King and the slide- guitarist Joe Walsh.
For the recording of Good Day in Hell Glenn Frey Don Felder asked to play the slide guitar. The other members liked Felder's guitar playing so well that they received him as the fifth Eagle in the band. Fields can also be heard on Already Gone with the doubled guitar solo. In the album credits, he was taken up later.
Publication and chart success
Asylum Records released the album on 22 March 1974. The album reached # 17 on the Billboard 200 In the German charts, the album unplaced. The Eagles reached in the German charts her breakthrough with the album Hotel California by 1976. In the Dutch Top 40, the album was in May 1974, reached number 3 and stayed 8 weeks.
The first single, Already Gone rose on June 29, 1974 in the U.S. charts, reaching number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed 15 weeks.
Named after the eponymous American actor titled James Dean was released as the second single. The title reached the U.S. charts on 12 October 1974 finished in the top spot 77 and stayed five weeks.
With the third single from the The Best of My Love that went into the American charts on March 1, 1975, the first number one of the band on the Billboard Hot 100 was recorded. The title remained 19 weeks.
The album was honored by the Recording Industry Association of America for more than two million recordings sold to the second platinum record in March 2001.
Reception
William Ruhlmann my in his review for the music database Allmusic, the album was a transitional work, which more than usual clubs for the Eagles various styles and elements. It would be both a review of the earlier works of the band and at the same time Anticipate the later works.
Title list
Page 1
- Lead vocals: Glenn Frey, Lead Guitar ( not mentioned in the credits ): Don Felder, guitar solos: Glenn Frey and Don Felder
- Lead vocal: Don Henley, lead guitar ( in the credits not mentioned): Bernie Leadon
- Lead Vocals: Randy Meisner, Slide Guitar: Glenn Frey, banjo Bernie Leadon
- Lead vocals and pedal steel guitar Bernie Leadon
- Lead vocal: Don Henley, TNTS: "Coach", Clapping: The Clapetts, lead guitar ( in the credits not mentioned): Glenn Frey
Page 2
- Lead vocals: Glenn Frey, Lead Guitar: Bernie Leadon
- Lead vocals: Glenn Frey and Don Henley, Pedal Steel Guitar: Al Perkins
- Lead Vocals: Randy Meisner, Slide Guitar: Glenn Frey
- Lead vocals: Glenn Frey, Lead and Slide Guitar: Don Felder
- Lead vocal: Don Henley, Pedal Steel Guitar: Bernie Leadon