Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles
| Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles | |
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| Compilation album by various artists | |
| Released | October 12, 1993 |
| Genre | Country |
| Length | 57:08 |
| Label | Giant |
| Producer | Various |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic - |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles is a tribute album to American rock band the Eagles. It was released in 1993 (see 1993 in country music) 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 RIAA on June 27, 1994.
The video for the cover of "Take It Easy" by Travis Tritt featured the former members of the Eagles, the first time that the group had appeared together in 13 years. Two months after recording the video, Glenn Frey and Don Henley decided on the formal reunion of the Eagles.
The album was initiated by Eagles co-founder Don Henley with help from the band's manager, Irving Azoff. It was intended as a charity album to raise funds for the Walden Woods Project that Henley founded in 1990 to buy the land around Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. On the back cover of the album, it states:
A portion of the royalties from the sales of this collections will go to the Walden Woods Project, a non-profit organization founded in 1990. The purpose of the Walden Woods Project is to purchase, and thereby preserve, environmentally sensitive and historically significant forestland located near Henry David Thoreau's famed retreat at Walden Pond.
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