{"id":43957,"date":"2025-08-15T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/eagles-cofounder-bernie-leadon-announces-first-lp-in-21-years\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:00:33","slug":"eagles-cofounder-bernie-leadon-announces-first-lp-in-21-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/eagles-cofounder-bernie-leadon-announces-first-lp-in-21-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Cofounder Bernie Leadon Announces First LP in 21 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/bernie-leadon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Leadon<\/a> has announced the release of his first album in more than 20 years. <em>Too Late to Be Cool<\/em> will arrive from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eagles<\/a> cofounder on Oct. 10.<\/p>\n<p>The singer, songwriter and guitarist released a new video for the album&#8217;s first single, &#8220;Too Many Memories,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/bernie-leadon-new-song\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier this week<\/a>. With the album&#8217;s announcement comes the LP&#8217;s second single, &#8220;Just a Little.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can hear &#8220;Just a Little&#8221; below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Listen to Bernie Leadon&#8217;s &#8216;Just a Little&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love this album,&#8221; Leadon said in the press release announcing the album. &#8220;We took time to make sure the songs were in good keys for my voice. The three-piece band and myself were all sitting in the same room or where we could see one another well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/country-rock-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top 35 Country Rock Songs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many were first or very early takes. I even sang live on about three songs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leadon&#8217;s previous solo album,\u00a0<em>Mirror<\/em>, came out in 2004. It&#8217;s been a long wait for the artist, who began his professional career playing with Dillard &amp; Clark and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/flying-burrito-brothers\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Flying Burrito Brothers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1971,\u00a0he\u00a0cofounded the Eagles with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/glenn-frey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Frey<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/don-henley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don Henley<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/randy-meisner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Randy Meisner<\/a>. Leadon left the band in 1975, focusing on work as a\u00a0session guitarist, banjo player and mandolin player with Emmylou Harris,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/stevie-nicks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stevie Nicks<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/linda-ronstadt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Ronstadt<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/stephen-stills\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Stills<\/a>\u00a0and others.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s on Bernie Leadon&#8217;s First Album in 21 Years?<\/h3>\n<p>The 11 songs on\u00a0<em>Too Late to Be Cool<\/em> were written by Leadon and produced and engineered by Glyn Johns, who produced the Eagles&#8217; first two albums and was <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/eagles-on-the-border-fired-producer\/\" target=\"_blank\">fired<\/a> midway through the recording of their third LP.<\/p>\n<p>Leadon&#8217;s backing group on the album includes bassist Glenn Worf, drummer Greg Morrow and keyboardist Tony Harrell.<\/p>\n<p>The album&#8217;s first single, &#8220;Too Many Memories,&#8221; was <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/bernie-leadon-new-song-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\">released in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Watch Bernie Leadon&#8217;s &#8216;Too Many Memories&#8217; Video<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leadon was\u00a0inducted into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/category\/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame<\/a>\u00a0in 1998 as part of the Eagles.\u00a0In 2013, he joined his former bandmates for the two-year History of the Eagles Tour.<\/p>\n<p>He also performed at the 2016 Grammy Awards\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/jackson-browne\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Browne<\/a>\u00a0and the surviving Eagles members \u2014 Henley,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/joe-walsh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Walsh<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/timothy-b-schmit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy B. Schmit<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 to perform &#8220;Take It Easy&#8221; in tribute to Frey, who died in January 2016, just a month before the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>While Leadon doesn&#8217;t have any tour dates lined up, he will play his first show in a decade at the Americanafest in Nashville next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope you all enjoy it,&#8221; Leadon said of his upcoming album. &#8220;Hope you find something that sticks with you, in a good way. I&#8217;m so grateful we can all still do this, sincerely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can see the track listing for <em>Too Late to Be Cool<\/em> below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernie Leadon, &#8216;Too Late to Be Cool&#8217; Track Listing<\/strong><br \/>1. \u201cZero Sum Game\u201d<br \/>2. \u201cTelescope\u201d<br \/>3. \u201cJust A Little\u201d<br \/>4. \u201cTake It As It Comes\u201d<br \/>5. \u201cEveryone\u2019s Quirky\u201d<br \/>6. \u201cGo On Down to Mobile\u201d<br \/>7. \u201cMama Didn\u2019t Raise No Fool\u201d<br \/>8. \u201cToo Late To Be Cool\u201d<br \/>9. \u201cFathom\u201d<br \/>10. \u201cCoast Highway\u201d<br \/>11. \u201cToo Many Memories\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">The Best Album by Country Rock&#8217;s 15 Biggest Artists<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>Straddling the middle ground between two popular genres, these bands and singer-songwriters take it to the limit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Michael Gallucci<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=160&#038;gver=6&#038;bid=295&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DmxuuNIMSzp6MHphJEoAGlLFQ3qmwQguzkGZl&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/bernie-leadon-new-album\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Leadon has announced the release of his first album in more than 20 years. 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