The Eagles found themselves at a major career shift by the mid-1970’s with a hit rock track that would effectively become one of the best breakup anthems they didn’t write.
By 1974, the country-rock band had a handful of hits to their name, with “Already Gone” adding to the list of beloved classics. The track became a staple breakup anthem about a guy who hears through the grapevine that his girlfriend is leaving him. Instead of heartache, he finds a new sense of freedom.
American Songwriter tagged “Already Gone” as one of the top breakup anthems of the era that still hits whether listeners are in a relationship or not. Despite landing at No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song did the job of shifting the Eagles to a harder rock sound, accompanied by their album On the Border.
“Already Gone” wasn’t actually written by the band and was created years before it ever landed at the feet of the Eagles. It was written by Jack Tempchin and Robb Strandlund in 1968. Some may recall that Tempchin is also responsible for another Eagles hit, “Peaceful Easy Feeling.”
The song was originally country, with Tempchin and Strandlum having developed it while Tempchin was managing a club called The Back Door at San Diego State College. They often played at the club, and Tempchin recalls having sat in the club’s back-room kitchen, drinking a questionable liquid.
“We were playing one night and we were in the back room, which was the kitchen where there were these big refrigerator doors,” explained Tempchin to SongFacts.
“I opened the door and there was a white jug. So I got this jug out, and for some reason, we thought it would be OK to just drink out of this jug. It was hard cider, and I had never had any alcohol or any drugs or anything at that point,” he added.
“So, we were drinking out of this jug and we started to feel really good, and I said, ‘Let’s write a country song.’ So in about 20 minutes in the back room there, we wrote ‘Already Gone.’ The chorus goes woo hoo hoo because I just felt so good suddenly.”
The song was played by Tempchin now and again, but he never thought much of it. He had been good friends with Glenn Frey since the ’60s, and he got a call from the rocker about “Already Gone.”
The band was in the studio working on their newest album when Frey told Temchin over the phone that his country song would be a great rock track. Tempchin remembers Frey holding the phone up to the studio speakers and hearing their version of “Already Gone.”
It became a hit for its guitar by new member Don Felder and was one of the first tracks they recorded with new producer Bill Szymczyk.
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