Desperado (album)

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Desperado
Eagles studio album

Publication
(s)

April 17th 1973

Label (s) Asylum Records

Genre (s)

Country rock

Title (number)

10

running time

35:40

occupation

production

Glyn Johns

chronology
Eagles
(1972)
Desperado On the Border
(1974)

Desperado is the 1973 released second music album by the US country rock band Eagles . In the charts, it reached number 41 with sales of two million albums.

Placements

The titles Tequila Sunrise and Outlaw Man were released as singles and reached 64th and 59th respectively on Billboard Pop Singles .

The title song Desperado was voted number 494 in Rolling Stone's 2004 list of the Rolling Stone's 500 Best Songs of All Time .

Track list

page 1
  1. "Doolin-Dalton" ( Glenn Frey , JD Souther , Don Henley , Jackson Browne ) - 3:26
    • Lead vocals: Don Henley and Glenn Frey, harmonica: Glenn Frey
  2. "Twenty-One" ( Bernie Leadon ) - 2:11
    • Lead vocals, dobro and banjo: Bernie Leadon
  3. "Out of Control" (Henley, Frey, Tom Nexon) - 3:04
    • Lead vocals and lead guitar: Glenn Frey
  4. "Tequila Sunrise" (Henley, Frey) - 2:52
    • Lead vocals and acoustic guitar: Glenn Frey, lead guitar and mandolin: Bernie Leadon
  5. "Desperado" (Henley, Frey) - 3:36
    • Lead vocals: Don Henley, piano: Glenn Frey
Page 2
  1. "Certain Kind of Fool" ( Randy Meisner , Henley, Frey) - 3:02
    • Lead vocals: Randy Meisner, acoustic guitar and mandolin: Bernie Leadon, lead guitar: Glenn Frey
  2. "Doolin-Dalton (Instrumental)" (Frey, Souther, Henley, Browne) - 0:48
  3. "Outlaw Man" (David Blue) - 3:34
    • Lead vocals, acoustic guitar and piano: Glenn Frey, lead guitar: Bernie Leadon
  4. "Saturday Night" (Meisner, Henley, Frey, Leadon) - 3:20
    • Lead vocals and acoustic guitar: Don Henley, 2nd lead vocal: Randy Meisner, mandolin: Bernie Leadon
  5. "Bitter Creek" (Leadon) - 5:00 am
    • Lead vocals: Bernie Leadon
  6. "Doolin-Dalton / Desperado (Reprise)" (Frey, Souther, Henley, Browne) - 4:50
    • Lead vocals: Don Henley, Banjo and Dobro: Bernie Leadon

production

Individual evidence

  1. RS list 401-500 ( memento from June 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

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