The End Of The Innocence Don Henley

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Album-Release:
2015

HRA-Release:
29.01.2015

Label: Universal Music

Genre: Rock

Subgenre: Classic Rock

Artist: Don Henley

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  • 1The End Of The Innocence05:18
  • 2How Bad Do You Want It?03:47
  • 3I Will Not Go Quietly05:43
  • 4The Last Worthless Evening06:03
  • 5New York Minute06:36
  • 6Shangri-La04:57
  • 7Little Tin God04:44
  • 8Gimme What You Got06:13
  • 9If Dirt Were Dollars04:34
  • 10The Heart Of The Matter05:21
  • Total Runtime53:16

Info for The End Of The Innocence

End Of The Innocence is Don Henley's classic and best selling solo album. The 6 times platinum collection features the hits 'Heart Of The Matter', 'New York Minute' and the title track.

This 1989 release captures Don Henley at his best, and boasts well-crafted songs elevated by stunning poetic images and reflective narratives. In fact, few pop artists know how to illuminate the human condition with quite the same amount of insight and ethos as Henley. 'The Last Worthless Evening' and 'The Heart of the Matter' offer unique perspectives on love and romance, while other tracks seek even greater, more expansive, artistic truth. The melancholy title track creatively blends together political denunciations (allusions to Ronald Reagan) with personal reckonings of lost virtue. In addition, jazz legend Wayne Shorter's soaring soprano sax solo on the bridge adds an emotional climax that's truly extraordinary. Another single from the record, 'New York Minute' tells a tale of suicidal desperation, but ends with a kind of crippled hope; this song finds resiliency in faith and understanding in defeat.

Henley's thoughtful lyrics are given amazing accompaniment by a list of rock & roll who's who - including Axl Rose, Melissa Etheridge, Take 6, Keith Richard's Xpensive Winos, Bruce Hornsby, Wayne Shorter, Sheryl Crow, Patti Smyth, Edie Brickell, and members of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers. This HighRes remaster clearly reveals the warmth and substance of this most prolific singer/songwriter.

'A conceptual elaboration on his 'Beast' album, this frames some wonderfully sarcastic rockers around 'The Heart of the Matter', one of the finest ballads of the '80s.'

Don Henley, drums, vocals, background vocals, harmony vocals
Timothy Drury, keyboards, background vocals, harmony vocals
Edie Brickell, background vocals, harmony vocals
Mike Campbell, guitar, keyboards
Valerie Carter, background vocals, harmony vocals
John Corey, guitar, keyboards
Sheryl Crow, background vocals
Charley Drayton, background vocals, harmony vocals
Melissa Etheridge, background vocals, harmony vocals
Michael G. Fisher, percussion
Bob Glaub, bass
Bruce Hornsby, piano, keyboards
Stanley Jordan, guitar, drums, background vocals, harmony vocals
Steve Jordan, drums, electric guitar, background vocals, harmony vocals, wah wah guitar
Jim Keltner, percussion, drums
Larry Klein, bass
Danny 'Kootch' Kortchmar, guitar, keyboards
Stan Lynch, percussion, drums
Steve Madaio, trumpet
Ivan Neville, background vocals, harmony vocals
David Paich, piano, strings, keyboards
Pino Palladino, bass
Jeff Porcaro, drums (on 'New York Minute')
Axl Rose, background vocals, harmony vocals
Wayne Shorter, soprano saxophone
Patty Smyth, background vocals, harmony vocals
J.D. Souther, background vocals
Take 6, background vocals, harmony vocals
Carmen Twillie, background vocals, harmony vocals
Waddy Wachtel, acoustic guitar
Julia Waters, background vocals, harmony vocals
Maxine Waters, background vocals, harmony vocals
Jai Winding, keyboards, keyboard bass

Produced by Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, Bruce Hornsby
Engineered by Shelley Yakus
Mixed by Shelly Yakus, Rob Jacobs
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision Lacquer, Los Angeles, CA

Digitally remastered


Don Henley
Born and raised in Texas (he attended North Texas State) Henley was taken under the wing of country superstar Kenny Rogers in 1970. Rogers encouraged him in the creation of his early band Shiloh and in California he teamed up with Glenn Frey as part of Linda Ronstadt’s backing band. That was the catalyst for forming The Eagles, once Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner were hired to complete a legendary quartet. Henley and Frey assumed a major controlling interest in the band’s development – operating under the theory that a benevolent dictatorship would accomplish far more than a full fledged democracy, and Don’s methodical raping vocal style and underrated drumming underpinned everything from ‘Desperado’ and ‘Witchy Woman’ to the gloriously romantic ‘Best of My Love’ and its polar opposite ‘Hotel California’, a song which couldn’t really have been sung by anyone other than him.

Don’s debut solo album, the self-explanatory I Can’t Stand Still, was extremely well received. Tracks like ‘Dirty Laundry’ and ‘Johnny Can’t Read’ (a sideswipe against American educational standards) pleased critics and piqued public interest. But it was Building the Perfect Beast (1984) that persuaded everyone – here was an artist who was far more than an Eagle, let alone a drummer. The disc has sold over three million copies and established a brilliant partnership with Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers men Mike Campbell, Stan Lynch and Benmont Tench. The stand-out song ‘The Boys of Summer’ is a Henley/Campbell collaboration which won Don the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance in 1986 but it’s the startling lyrics about youth and mortality that make it so resonant. The lyrical reference to the Deadhead bumper sticker spotted on a Cadillac gave the number instant appeal to generations of listeners and wry as the observation was it also made a valid point about one time rebellion becoming a consumerist normality – albeit with a perfect up tempo rhythm offset by an entirely downbeat delivery. Stellar assistance on this classic album arrives via Lindsey Buckingham, bassist Tim Drummond, Jim Keltner’s kit and Jerry Hey’s moody horn parts but there are also surprise contributions from a fellow sardonic in Randy Newman (synthesiser) and the late great English drummer Ian Wallace, a member of Henley’s touring band.

Don follows that three years later with The End of the Innocence whose title track is another brilliantly conceived account of impending middle age. This time he colludes with pianist Bruce Hornsby (ironically then a member of The Grateful Dead) and the video is shot by the celebrated movie director David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) is startling black and white. The track ‘I Will Not Go Quietly’ (written with long time pal Danny Kortchmar) finds space for Axl Rose’s backing vocals, making it a collector’s piece, and the not to be overlooked gem ‘New York Minute’ has a slick apocalyptic arrangement augmented by Toto maestros David Paich and Jeff Porcaro: this has a distinctive whiff of Steely Dan about it. Other notables in the ranks are Edie Brickell, Valerie Carter, Sheryl Crow and Wayne Shorter, as well as those Heartbreakers. The End of the Innocence is a top-notch example of peerless West Coast rock cut though with acerbic lyrical wit.

Augmenting these two fabulous discs we have Actual Miles: Henley’s Greatest Hits (1995). Another Platinum affair this collates material from his first three solo discs and adds new tracks – ‘The Garden of Allah’ (a Hollywood Babylon epic on a par with his finest writing), ‘You Don’t Know Me at All’ and a superb cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Everybody Knows’ whose mordant lyrics reference everything from AIDS to social unrest and religious turmoil. All a far cry from The Eagles’ ‘Take it Easy’.

With Henley back in the driving and drumming seat with his parent group Inside Job (2000) was another well-received release but we point you towards The Very Best of Don Henley, available in a deluxe version that contains extra bonus audio and DVD. This came out in 2009 but it’s unlikely to be the last word on his idiosyncratic take regarding the American condition from Mr Henley. He remains one of the most insightful commentators on modern society viewed through a rock star’s eyes that we have. Turn up the Don Henley, the neighbours are listening. (Words: Max Bell, Source Universal Music)

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