 | The End of the Innocence by Don Henley
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 The Eagles' brain at his solo pinnacle. Reaganomics never sounded so evil; and killer ballads to boot. The title track is my all-time favorite Henley solo song.
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 | Inside Job by Don Henley
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 In the 11 years after "EoI" he married and had kids, but that didn't blur his political vision. All songs are great; personal favorite: "Miss Ghost," for guitars (J. Vaughan) if for no other reason.
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 | I Can't Stand Still by Don Henley
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.30 An appropriately-titled solo debut, and not only "Dirty Laundry" has withstood the test of time. That song and "Lilah" are among my perennial Henley favorites; but again, not a bad song on the album.
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 | Building the Perfect Beast by Don Henley
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 He'd made his mark with his solo debut, but this album established him as firmly as a solo artist as the Eagles had been as a band. Not just worth having for the many hit singles it produced!
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 | Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits by Don Henley
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $0.84 He had to do one last album before he could leave Geffen, so he released this - but it also has "Garden of Allah" (yes, that's L.A. he's talking about ...) and 2 other new tracks.
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 | Strange Weather by Glenn Frey
Buy used from: $0.78 More mature & musically diverse than anything else he released after the Eagles split; deserves more attention than it got. Proves he can tell stories & ponders society - besides writing great music!
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 | Solo Collection by Glenn Frey
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $4.88 Not complete, but a fairly good selection of Frey's solo work, from his "I just wanna have fun" and R&B-phase to movie soundtrack contributions (including stuff that's not on his other albums).
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 | Feed the Fire by Timothy B. Schmit
Buy used from: $35.98 Music is his life and he has never idled, but this is the crown jewel of his solo collection. And he didn't even pursue it all that seriously at first ... (but feed that fire a little more, Timothy!)
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 | Look What I Did!: The Joe Walsh Anthology by Joe Walsh
Buy new: $31.98 / Used from: $9.74 "I don't know what a rock star is but I are one!" (OK, so I didn't just steal the title of this one but also the liner notes - but they're just too good.) (Almost) all of the guitar weirdo's goodies.
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 | Songs for a Dying Planet by Joe Walsh
Buy used from: $4.78 Probably Walsh's most overtly "political" album; a great one whatever you think of his runs for office. Worth owning for the title track and "Decades" ("the finest thing I've ever done") alone.
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 | But Seriously, Folks... by Joe Walsh
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $2.41 Never mind that he was in the Eagles now; he also continued to release solo albums. This one contains the studio version of Mr. Chainsaw's semi-autobiographical take on rock stardom ... and lots more.
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 | The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get by Joe Walsh
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.29 His solo debut after walking away from his 1st bands has one of his perennial classics ("RMW") & he got suckerpunched for the intro of "Meadows" (but a promise is a promise). Gotta love the title too!
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 | So What by Joe Walsh
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.71 "Turn to Stone" (version#2), "Pavanne" (he DOES have a classical musical education if you can believe it!) & "Help Me Thru the Night" (with 3/4 original Eagles, and they still do it live)...'Nuf said!
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 | The Confessor by Joe Walsh
Buy used from: $3.92 The best of his three releases from the '1980s - worth owning for the title track alone.
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 | Got Any Gum? by Joe Walsh
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.86 This was out of print forever ... now finally available again for the first time in years!
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 | Barnstorm by Joe Walsh
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.74 Before the Eagles & his first solo ride there was Barnstorm - and "Turn to Stone" version#1. They only recorded 1 album as a band, but the 2 Joes are still friends... not only Mother Says.
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 | Rides Again by The James Gang
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.58 And before Barnstorm, there was the James Gang. This is far and away their best - even if he'd "written something else" had he known he'd still be doing "Funk#49" 30 years later.
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 | Airborne by Don Felder
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $43.05 Don Felder's only solo release, from the time between the '80 breakup and the '94 reunion. No commercial hit, but very listenable & great guest appearances (Tim Schmit, Joe Vitale, Kenny Loggins etc).
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 | Live in Dallas by Randy Meisner
Buy new: $12.97 Solo snippets of Randy Meisner, recorded live in 1982 in a small Dallas, TX setting. Includes 2 new mixes of "Take It to the Limit," and his biggest solo hit, "Hearts on Fire."
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 | Natural Progressions by Bernie Leadon
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $6.93 Leadon was the first of the 4 original members to leave the band, and while the others (reinforced by Felder & Walsh) checked into the Hotel California, Bernie recorded this, with Michael Georgiades.
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 | Poco by Poco
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $29.42 Both Timothy B. Schmit's and Randy Meisner's life before the Eagles ... one of THE definitive early country rock bands, and they're still around! TBS replaced Meisner here & later in the Eagles, too.
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 | The Gilded Palace of Sin/Burrito Deluxe by The Flying Burrito Brothers
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $9.12 Bernie Leadon's roots were with the other, and equally definitive country rock band preceding the Eagles. He wrote a sweet, sad tribute to Gram Parsons ("My Man") after Parsons left us way too early.
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