Thursday August 11, 2022 “Seven Bridges Road” The Eagles

Just in case you were wondering, today’s Seven Bridges Road actually exists.  The song is an ode to Woodley Road (Alabama Country Road 39), a rural two-lane road which runs south off East Fairview Avenue - the southern boundary of the Cloverdale neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama - at Cloverdale Road, and which features seven bridges: three pairs of bridges, and the seventh approximately 1 mile south by itself.

If you’re in the area maybe stop by and give them a count because if there happened to be only six bridges the song would be one syllable short.

Although written by Steve Young and included on his album Rock Salt & Nails the most popular version is today’s by the Eagles.

According to band member Don Felder, when the Eagles first began playing stadiums the group would warm up pre-concert by singing "Seven Bridges Road" in a locker room shower area and then each concert would then open with the group's five members singing "Seven Bridges Road" a capella into a single microphone.  You can see a segment of this in the opening of Eagles documentary History of the Eagles Part 1.  It has been suggested that the Eagles lifted their version of “Seven Bridges Road” from an earlier version of the song recorded by Iain Matthews and produced by former Monkee Mike Nesmith.

Stay safe and well…and enjoy these amazing harmonies.

There are stars in the southern skySouthward as you go

There is moonlight and moss in the trees

Down the Seven Bridges Road

 Now I have loved you like a baby

Like some lonesome child

And I have loved you in a tame way

And I have loved you wild

 Sometimes there's a part of me

Has to turn from here and go

Running like a child from these warm stars

Down the Seven Bridges Road

 There are stars in the southern sky

And if ever you decide you should go

There is a taste of time sweetened honey

Down the Seven Bridges Road