Sunny Songs: Tequila Sunrise
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86654)
United States
July 17, 2025 10:59am CST
What can I say? I suppose the only shock is that this song isn’t in the top ten, right? Yes, the sun shines on one of my favorite bands and my absolute favorite album of theirs. Everyone except The Dude Lebowski can sing along! 
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
Yeah, you can have Hotel California. I’ll take Desperado. Their second album went from the mishmash of love and love lost and other typical rock themes (two of which — “Peaceful Easy Feeling” and “Nightingale” — weren’t even written by members of the band) to a brilliant concept album comparing the Wild Bunch, also known as the Doolin-Dalton Gang, to life as a touring musician. Oh, and the things about the Doolin-Dalton gang were historically accurate at that! Bill Dalton really did “lay down (his) law books now, they’re no damn good” after the Coffeyville raid killed two of his brothers on October 5, 1892. And they really had a gang member named “Bitter Creek”
This song fits in the album like the “morning after” scene in a movie (the previous song is called “Out of Control,” about a wild night in town). It’s also one of the songs that could be easily lifted from the concept for a single.
Yeah, I’ll take this one any day.
Tequila Sunrise
Written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey
Recorded by the Eagles
From Desperado, 1973
You just get numb:
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
Yeah, you can have Hotel California. I’ll take Desperado. Their second album went from the mishmash of love and love lost and other typical rock themes (two of which — “Peaceful Easy Feeling” and “Nightingale” — weren’t even written by members of the band) to a brilliant concept album comparing the Wild Bunch, also known as the Doolin-Dalton Gang, to life as a touring musician. Oh, and the things about the Doolin-Dalton gang were historically accurate at that! Bill Dalton really did “lay down (his) law books now, they’re no damn good” after the Coffeyville raid killed two of his brothers on October 5, 1892. And they really had a gang member named “Bitter Creek”
This song fits in the album like the “morning after” scene in a movie (the previous song is called “Out of Control,” about a wild night in town). It’s also one of the songs that could be easily lifted from the concept for a single.
Yeah, I’ll take this one any day.
Tequila Sunrise
Written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey
Recorded by the Eagles
From Desperado, 1973
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
18 Jul
There’s nothing bad to say. Great song, great album, before they got way too full of themselves (well, two people in particular…).
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
18 Jul
@porwest -- I know. The way he's acted the past few years, I'd almost ask him to refund the money I've spent on his albums and concerts. (Of course, I saw them back in the day when the tickets were normally-priced: seeing the Eagles TWICE, and Don Henley solo, was a grand total of $35.50...$10 for each Eagles ticket and $15.50 for the Henley solo show [with Katrina & the Waves opening!]. Today $35.50 wouldn't pay the taxes on the surcharges! 
)
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@porwest (112843)
• United States
18 Jul
@FourWalls The way I see it, just enjoy the music and enjoy the fact that people enjoy it and leave it at that. People enjoy the music less when the one or ones behind it get all pompous and snooty.
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
18 Jul
Well, I never know with you, sourdough maker. 
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
18 Jul
@NJChicaa — yeah but you don’t know J.D. Souther who co-wrote three of the Eagles’ five #1 hits AND co-wrote “The Good Fight” with JWB! You sourdough bakers, I swear!!!
PS: got three free months of Sirius XM after my car maintenance, guess where I keep it parked? 
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@NJChicaa (127128)
• United States
18 Jul
@FourWalls of course I know the Eagles.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Jul
I love the song Desperado. The Eagles are a great band. Most of the songs are good.
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
18 Jul
They are among my all-time favorite bands, for certain!
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@LindaOHio (222314)
• United States
18 Jul
But of course I know the Eagles and this song.
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
19 Jul
@LindaOHio -- I don't think anyone has to apologize for their tastes, or lack thereof. I don't like opera. That doesn't diminish the importance of opera, it just means I don't like it. (Except for The Makado.)
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@LindaOHio (222314)
• United States
19 Jul
@FourWalls I wish I could get into country; but I just can't. Except for the ones that I've mentioned before.
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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19 Jul
What a contrast to the popular tequila song by The Champs in 1957. From party "tequila" to sadness "tequila." Hopefully the sunrise brought that outlaw new perspective over his lost love.
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
19 Jul
This is more the truth: "one tequila, two tequila, three tequila, FLOOR."
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@MarieCoyle (59192)
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17 Jul
My sister loved the Eagles. She took me to several of their concerts. They had some good tunes!
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
17 Jul
That must've been "back in the day" because you can't afford an Eagles concert anymore without a second mortgage. 
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@MarieCoyle (59192)
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17 Jul
@FourWalls
It was. So many concerts now are priced so high that you are right, it would require a second mortgage to attend one!
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@snowy22315 (208852)
• United States
17 Jul
Yay Eagles!!! One of my fave bands too.
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
17 Jul
Sometimes I have to go with the blatantly obvious songs.
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@DaddyEvil (174377)
• United States
17 Jul
Surprise! I recognize this song but can't remember why I recognize it...
Did you get a shock seeing me respond on a song post?
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
17 Jul
Oh, I know that Daddy Evil's account has been hacked any time I see it show up in a music post.
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@RasmaSandra (97990)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Jul
Looove this song always turn up the volume and get reminded of all the tequila sunrises I went through in NYC during the disco era
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
18 Jul
Like the song much better than the drink.
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@FourWalls (86654)
• United States
17 Jul
The never topped that second album in my opinion. They had great individual songs after it, but an entire album? No.
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@TheHorse (238298)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Jul
@FourWalls Agreed. I get to see Gunnar again today.. (He's the one I wrote about this morning). Maybe I''ll get him started on Teqilla Sunrise. He and I already did Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Similar chords, I think.
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@Beestring (15372)
• Hong Kong
17 Jul
I like the Eagles but never heard of this song. Love it.
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