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Peaceful Easy Feeling - 2013 Remaster

1972Released
4:17

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Interesting facts and trivia about Peaceful Easy Feeling - 2013 Remaster. By Songfacts®.

A San Diego singer-songwriter named Jack Tempchin wrote this song sometime around 1969. One night after a club gig in nearby El Centro, he waited around trying to hook up with a waitress, but she left and never came back. With no ride home, he crashed on the floor of the club, but couldn't sleep. To kill the time, he grabbed his guitar and started composing this song, writing lyrics on the back of one of his flyers. He finished the song in stages, and made his way to Los Angeles, where he hung out at the Troubadour along with Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther and various other up-and-comers in the West Coast music scene. He was staying with Browne one day when Frey came over and heard Tempchin playing the song. Tempchin made a cassette recording for Frey, who came back the next day with a demo he had worked up with his band that had been backing Linda Ronstadt - the band that would soon become the Eagles. "Peaceful Easy Feeling" was included on the Eagles' debut album and released as the third single. Tempchin went on to write "Already Gone" for the Eagles and helped Frey write his solo hit "You Belong To The City." The flyer Tempchin used to start writing the lyrics is now in the Grammy Museum.

Thanks to its title and easygoing vibe, this song evokes a state of tranquility. The lyric, however, is about a girl, with Glenn Frey singing about how he's love for things to work out with her, but thinks she'll probably leave in the end. He'll be OK though, since he has a peaceful, easy feeling and he won't let her ruin it no matter what happens. In a Songfacts interview with Jack Tempchin, he explained: "It's not a love song exactly. The guy's going, 'Hey, either way it's going to be fine.'"

The opening line came to Jack Tempchin when he went to a street fair in San Diego. He saw a woman with beautiful earrings and wrote: I like the way your sparkling earrings lay Against your skin, it's so brown

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Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Peaceful Easy Feeling - 2013 Remaster.
EKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
143BPM

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