Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles is a tribute album to American rock band Eagles. It was released October 12, 1993 on Giant Records to raise funds for the Walden Woods Project. The album features covers of various Eagles songs, as performed by country music acts. It was certified 3× Platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on June 27, 1994, honoring shipments of three million copies in the United States. Several cuts from the album all charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts after the album’s release, the most successful being Travis Tritt’s rendition of “Take It Easy” at number 21. Common Thread won all of its performers a Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year at the 1994 ceremony.
- “Take It Easy” (Travis Tritt) 3:32
- “Peaceful Easy Feeling” (Little Texas) 4:19
- “Desperado” (Clint Black) 3:51
- “Heartache Tonight” (John Anderson) 4:23
- “Tequila Sunrise” (Alan Jackson) 2:56
- “Take It to the Limit” (Suzy Bogguss) 4:32
- “I Can’t Tell You Why” (Vince Gill) 4:04
- “Lyin’ Eyes” (Diamond Rio) 6:30
- “New Kid in Town” (Trisha Yearwood) 5:07
- “Saturday Night” (Billy Dean) 3:25
- “Already Gone” (Tanya Tucker) 5:00
- “Best of My Love” (Brooks & Dunn) 4:38
- “The Sad Café” (Lorrie Morgan) 4:45
Production The 1994 Country Music Association (CMA) award for Album of the Year was awarded jointly to Suzy Bogguss, Tony Brown, Don Cook, Jerry Crutchfield, Billy Dean, Christy DiNapoli, Garth Fundis, Doug Grau, Scott Hendricks, Richard Landis, Lynn Peterzell, Monty Powell, Keith Stegall, and James Stroud for their contributions in producing the album.
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