AccuRadio Song Of The Day-Travis Tritt

Artist:Travis Tritt

Song:Take It Easy

Album:Common Thread: The Songs of The Eagles

This is a 1994 Eagles tribute album recorded by country artists. I like to feature albums like this but frequently there is no video clip. In this case, the Travis Tritt single Take It Easy did well enough to qualify as a discography orphan. Usually these are benefit albums. This one raised funds for the Walden Woods Project which is dedicated to the legacy of Henry David Thoreau and Walden Pond in Concord, MA. This was founded in 1990 by Eagles co-founder Don Henley to purchase land near Walden Pond. Henley and manager Irving Azoff staged a 1992 Walden Woods Project benefit concert in Los Angeles in May 1992. Several country artists appeared on that concert. A few months later, Henley and Trisha Yearwood performed together on the 1992 CMA Awards broadcast. While at the show, several country artists told Henley how Eagles inspired them. Henley and Azoff asked Giant Records owner James Stroud to put the album together. Giant was distributed by Warner Bros. so there would be no rights issues. The one artist they really wanted for this album was Travis Tritt. He was pretty hot at the time and he was also on Warner Bros. Take It Easy was the lead single and it reached #21 on the Country Singles chart. Tritt agreed to appear in a video on the condition that members of Eagles appear in it too. Henley, Glenn Frey, Don Felder, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit all appeared in the video. That's why it was shot in a pool room. The shoot went so well that Eagles agreed to reunite for the album Hell Freezes Over followed by a tour. Frey told Rolling Stone that the video reminded him that they were friends first. The album sold really well. It was certified 3XPlatinum. It's available as a budget CD and you can get Take It Easy on a couple of Travis Tritt comps like The Big 10. A total of 13 country artists appeared on this album. So if you're a country music fan and an Eagles fan, You should like this. Here's the video for Take It Easy by Travis Tritt.