We could be cocky at times-which was really just a front-but we weren’t very sophisticated or confident. “We were just scruffy new kids who had no calling card. “That was the period when there were all these great-looking girls who didn’t really want to have anything to do with us,” Henley once said in a conversation with Cameron Crowe. Henley remembers it differently though, saying the lyrics were inspired by a break-up he went through with his then-girlfriend.
I have no idea where the inspiration for that song came from.” When I’m writing music it’s something that’s swirling around in my head or happens to live on scraps of paper or a score paper that’s sitting on my piano. “I can rarely tell you where I get inspiration. “Glenn found the tune the tune I think came from a Fred Neil record,” Souther once recalled.
Souther sat down with Don Henley and Glenn Frey to help compose this track for the Eagles’ 1974 album, On The Border. He helped pen many of their most enduring hits including “Doolin’ Dalton,” “Heartache Tonight,” and the song we’re looking at for this list, “Best of My Love.” Souther has a storied history with the Eagles. Uncover the stories behind these timeless tunes, below. In recognition of Souther’s incomparable songwriting efforts, we are revisiting just a few of Souther’s biggest tracks.
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