- The Eagles redirects here. For the British band of the same name, see The Eagles (UK band). For other uses of the word "Eagle", see Eagle (disambiguation).
Eagles is an American rock music group that was formed in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s.
Overview
Their early music was a hybrid of
country and
bluegrass instrumentation grafted onto the harmonies of
California surfer rock, producing tender ballads and soft top-down country-flavored pop-rock about relationships, cars, and the wandering life. The originators of this genre were gifted
singer/songwriters, among them
Gram Parsons,
Jackson Browne,
J.D. Souther, and
Warren Zevon. The Eagles took the singer-songwriter ethos to a group setting with increased emphasis on arrangements and musicianship, and the group's early sound became synonymous with the southern California
country rock. On later albums the band dispensed with bluegrass instrumentation and gravitated to a more straight-ahead rock sound.
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