A live performance by the Eagles during one of their reunion tours.
Can someone explain to me why music writers seem to all hate these guys? I don’t get it. Anyway, the country roots of this song are easy to see, and it was featured on a collection of Eagles covers by country artists called Common Threads. Here’s Clint Black singing it, as he did on that album:
If you want to combine “country version” with “artists lots of people seem to hate” there’s always the Carrie Underwood version. I’ll let you click over to see that one, not because I hate Carrie Underwood – I have no strong feelings about her – but because there’s not much variety in these renditions. The Johnny Cash cover isn’t any different an arrangement, but it is Johnny Cash, so:
He really picked a meaningful set of songs to tackle on his last albums, didn’t he? Rest in peace, Johnny.