Seven Bridges Road
| "Seven Bridges Road" | |
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| Single by Steve Young | |
| from the album Rock Salt & Nails | |
| B-side | "Many Rivers" |
| Released | 1969 |
| Format | 7" vinyl |
| Recorded | 1969 |
| Genre | Country |
| Length | 3:22 |
| Label | Reprise |
| Writer(s) | Steve Young |
| Producer | Paul Tannen |
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| Single by Eagles | ||||
| from the album Eagles Live | ||||
| B-side | "The Long Run (live)" (4:08) | |||
| Released | December 15, 1980 | |||
| Format | 7" vinyl | |||
| Recorded | July 28, 1980 | |||
| Genre | Folk/Country | |||
| Length | 3:02 | |||
| Label | Asylum 2051 | |||
| Writer(s) | Steve Young | |||
| Producer | Bill Szymczyk | |||
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"Seven Bridges Road" is the title of a song written by Steve Young that he recorded in 1969 for his Rock Salt & Nails album. A popular version was recorded by the Eagles in 1980 which still receives significant airplay on classic rock stations.
[edit] Cover versions
The song was recorded live by the Eagles for their Eagles Live album in 1980. The single, bundled with a live version of "The Long Run", reached number 21 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 55 on the country music charts.[1]
Country music band Ricochet covered the song on their 2000 album What You Leave Behind. This version peaked at number 48 on Hot Country Singles & Tracks.[2]
It was also recorded by Alan Jackson for the album Live at Texas Stadium with George Strait and Jimmy Buffett in 2007.
Also recorded by Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth in the LP "Bring Me Home" (1971)
Dolly Parton recorded a cover version for her 2001 album Little Sparrow.
Rita Coolidge recorded a cover version for her 2001 album Rita Coolidge.
Iain Matthews recorded a cover version for his 1973 album Valley Hi. This is reputed to be the arrangement that the Eagles used for their recording and concerts.
FireHouse recorded a cover version for their 1996 album Good Acoustics.
A version was also done by "Silver Cabinet".
While there is a similarity in the title, the song "Über Sieben Brücken" ("over seven bridges") by the German band Karat on the album "Über sieben Brücken" which was released in 1979, is not a cover version, nor is the more successful version of the same song that was released by Peter Maffay in 1980 on the album "Revanche". Similarly, "Seven Bridges" from the 1990 album "Walking On a Wire" by Lowen & Navarro, which contains the title line "seven bridges home", is also not a cover, though it was inspired by the original Steve Young song, which they admitted to him directly when they all met shortly after the album's release.
In 2010 Chris de Burgh released a version on his latest album "Footsteps 2"
[edit] References
- ^ "Eagles chart history". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4153. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 351. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
- Mann, Brent (2005). Blinded by the Lyrics. New York: Citadel Press. An online version can be found at [1].
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