The Eagles have long been recognized as influential to modern Country Music. The drummer, Don Henley, has embraced this fact in his newest project.
According to Great American Country, Henley has been working on an album of Country songs with the former drummer of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Stan Lynch.
“He’s another quasi-redneck who is amazingly gifted and has a killer sense of humor,” Henley told Diablo, a San Francisco-area publication. “His dad was a professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and Stan lives on a sheep and timber farm, east of there.”
This is also not the first time that the Eagles drummer has worked with Country Music. In 1993, he helped in the development of Common Thread: The Songs Of The Eagles, which featured remakes of the Eagle's songs by Country artists Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Diamond Rio and Tanya Tucker. Common Thread won Album of the Year from the Country Music Association.
A release date has yet to be announced for Don Henley’s Country-themed album.
Source: GACtv.com
