“In The City” by The Eagles

"In the City" turned up on the Eagles' The Long Run in 1979, but it started out as Joe Walsh's. He and Barry De Vorzon wrote it, and Walsh cut it first for the soundtrack of the action thriller The Warriors. The rest of the band liked it enough to claim it for their sixth studio album, and they left Walsh at the mic and on the slide guitar, with Bill Szymczyk producing and mixing.

It's the grittiest thing on the record, all tough-guy swagger and slide guitar snarl. The promo clip staged a mock session: Walsh on a double-neck Gibson, twelve strings for the rhythm and six for the slide, Timothy B. Schmit on bass, Don Felder on a Stratocaster, Don Henley on drums, Glenn Frey at the piano and Joe Vitale on congas. It never came out as a single, yet album-rock radio in the US adopted it anyway.

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