"But Seriously, Folks..." (LP, Album, Promo, Gat)
Asylum Records
S 90.048
Spain
1978
32.022
Joe Walsh
"But Seriously, Folks..." (LP, Album)
Asylum Records
32.022
Brazil
1978
53081
Joe Walsh
"But Seriously, Folks..." (LP, Album, Gat)
Asylum Records
53081
Greece
1980
Credits
Producer – Bill Szymczyk
Companies
Distributed By – WEA Filipacchi Music
Video
Album
But Seriously, Folks. is the fourth studio album by the American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Walsh. The album was released in mid 1978, on the label Asylum. It included the satirical song Life's Been Good. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. But Seriously Folks, released in 1978, was the album the Eagles should have made rather than the mediocre The Long Run. It captures a reflective song cycle along the same thematic lines of Pet Sounds, only for the '70s. The album's introspective outlook glides through rejuvenation Tomorrow, Over and Over, recapturing the simple pleasures of the past Indian Summer, mid-career indecision At the Station, Second Hand Store, and a melancholy instrumental Theme From Boat Weirdos. Joe Walsh - But Seriously, Folks 1978. To favorites 3 Download album. Listen album. Classic Rock. Joe Walsh. The album also featured the other four members of the Eagles - which Walsh had joined two years earlier - as. Rock 1978. The underlying theme of the album is one of clarity and acceptance of past mistakes. Joe Walsh's fourth album,. But Seriously Folks , is best known for producing the hit single Life's Been Good. But that's just the most obvious starting point of a record that proved to be one of Walsh's most durable LPs. Comparisons to the Eagles for the album came early and often and not just because this was the first stand-alone project Walsh released after he joined the group before 1976's Hotel California. All four of his bandmates appeared on. But Seriously Folks arrived on May 16, 1978 as a Walsh record at its core, dominated not by the Eagles but by his vision. Don't let the winks and nudges fool you. But Seriously, FolksBut Seriously, Folks is 35 minutes of flawless classic rock longer if you have it on CD, where some silence and A Flock of Wah-Wahs was added at the end. It came at a crossroads in music history. The Eagles had completed Hotel California after long, arduous sessions and had crafted a masterpiece. On this Walsh solo album, he had to juggle studio sessions with live dates for Hotel California. Best Classic Bands: Where were you and Joe in your lives when this album happened after Hotel California Bill Szymczyk: In November of 76 Id opened Bayshore, my studio in Coconut Grove. This was one of the first albums done there. The rehearsals we did on the boat. Today, we take a look at a classic overlooked record by Joe Walsh. 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Joe Walsh. Ordinary Average Guy. The Confessor. The album also featured the other four members of Eagles - which Walsh had joined two years earlier - as well as singer-keyboardist Jay Ferguson, a former member of the groups Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne who co-wrote one track on the album, drummer Joe Vitale from Walsh's former band Barnstorm, and bassist Willie Weeks. more