Eagles专辑介绍：

1971年8月四个已有丰富舞台经验的乐手，包括Gleen Frey,Bernie Leadon,Randy Meisner和Don Henley组成 Eagles。

在为琳达朗丝黛（Linda Ronstadt）担任专属乐团后，受到Asylum唱片公司总裁David Geffen的提拔，安排其于科罗拉多Aspen一家俱乐部中担任一晚四场的演出达一个月。

1972年4月和Asylum唱片签约，Eagles飞往英国伦敦奥林匹克录音室进行第一章唱片录制工作。在七月份的时候，Take It Easy成为他们第一首进榜单曲。而收录该曲的专辑Eagles获第二十二名。选自专辑中的另一首歌Witchy Woman晋升到第九名。乐团的成员或多或少有了些改变，但是老鹰合唱团一直在发展中。1973年乐队所属的唱片公司被华纳公司收购，华纳公司是当今国际五大唱片集团之一，也是全球最具实力的影视制作公司，他在八十年代时曾有意与宝利金（Polygram）公司合并，但由于美国反托拉斯法的制约而未能成功。老鹰乐队由于有如此强大的宣传后盾，乐队的成功也接踵而至，各地的巡回演出搞得风风火火。

不久之后，他们开始在制作人Glyn Johns手下录制第一张专辑，这张同名专辑《The Eagles》在1972年发行，很快成为排行榜的前二十名，并且成为了金唱片，其中的一些单曲也进入了前40名，初步的被人们所了解。

Balance is the key element of the Eagles' self-titled debut album, a collection that contains elements of rock & roll, folk, and country, overlaid by vocal harmonies alternately suggestive of doo wop, the Beach Boys, and the Everly Brothers. If the group kicks up its heels on rockers like "Chug All Night," "Nightingale," and "Tryin'," it is equally convincing on ballads like "Most of Us Are Sad" and "Train Leaves Here This Morning." The album is also balanced among its members, who trade off on lead vocal chores and divide the songwriting such that Glenn Frey, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner all get three writing or co-writing credits. (Fourth member Don Henley, with only one co-writing credit and two lead vocals, falls a little behind, while Jackson Browne, Gene Clark, and Jack Tempchin also figure in the writing credits.) The album's overall balance is worth keeping in mind because it produced three Top 40 hit singles (all of which turned up on the massively popular Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975) that do not reflect that balance. "Take It Easy" and "Peaceful Easy Feeling" are similar-sounding mid-tempo folk-rock tunes sung by Frey that express the same sort of laid-back philosophy, as indicated by the word "easy" in both titles, while "Witchy Woman," a Henley vocal and co-composition, initiates the band's career-long examination of supernaturally evil females. These are the songs one remembers from Eagles, and they look forward to the eventual dominance of the band by Frey and Henley. But the complete album from which they come belongs as much to Leadon's country-steeped playing and singing and to Meisner's melodic rock & roll feel, which, on the release date, made it seem a more varied and consistent effort than it did later, when the singles had become overly familiar.