It's a little odd to be lectured on corporate greed by a guy like Don Henley. 'Inside Job' was the album, and lyrics that got me somewhat disenfranchised with him on this and other matters. Don't get me wrong, I love Henley. I have to sing his songs every weekend, and he's got one of the great American voices and song-quills to ever come down the line, but I say a red alert should go off the moment your band starts being referred to as an 'organization'. At that point, you need to watch very carefully for things that you... uh... complain about on your own albums.
Being one-half of the Eagle's dictatorship (with Glenn Frey) and ousting just about every member who doesn't see things his way, you still gotta hand it to Don, he's a helluva solo artist. He can still write songs, sing them, and that's the heart of the matter.
So while we wait to see what the Eagles may or may not do, let's revisit one of Henley's great solo outings: Don Henley, 'Inside Job'.
Almost as cool as Sting, Harrison Ford and a few other contemporary rainforest savers, the soulful desperado still finds a way to bring insightful lyrics into a firmlly American pop framework. The oddly moving 'For My Wedding' is a solid cry for a better world, whereas 'Goodbye to a River' is an overwrought attempt to get people to use less aerosol or something.
So no, it's clearly not as hot as 'End of the Innocence' or 'Building the Perfect Beast', but this guy still knows how to carve up his own little perfect piece of a pop album as songs like 'Everything is Different Now' and 'Nobody Else in the World But You' give us exactly what we want... that voice.
He even takes a page from the Sting handbook (perhaps a page that ought to be carefully perforated and removed from Mr. Sumner's little black book and inserted into Don's) by injecting 'Nobody Else' with a rocking R&B soul that's just grand. Grander, even than that band he's sometimes associated with.
Anyway, you can't fault this album beyond a certain point. It is what it is and even though you'll probably buy it at WalMart, it doesn't feel like it was made anywhere else but America. Some will undoubtedly say it's just 'End of the Innocence III' or that Don should just stick close to Glen Frey, but the fact is, nobody else in the world could have pulled off this 'Inside Job'.
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