- Tequila Sunrise (song)
Infobox Single
Name = Tequila Sunrise
Artist =Eagles
from Album = Desperado
B-side = "Twenty-One"
Released =April 17 ,1973
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre = Rock,Country rock
Length = 2:52
Label = Asylum
Writer =Don Henley ,Glenn Frey
Producer =Glyn Johns ,Eagles
Certification =
Last single = "Peaceful Easy Feeling "
(1972)
This single = "Tequila Sunrise"
(1973)
Next single = "Outlaw Man "
(1973)"Tequila Sunrise" is a song written byDon Henley andGlenn Frey , and recorded by the American rock bandEagles . It was the first single from the band's second album "Desperado".Glenn Frey stated during the 1994 "
Hell Freezes Over " appearance onMTV that this is one of the first two songs (the other being "Desperado") he and Henley wrote together.Fact|date=September 2008Early live performances of this song included an extra verse at the end.Fact|date=September 2008
"Think I'll go to Mexico.Down where the pace is nice and slow.And there's no one there I know.It's another tequila sunrise, wonderin' if I'm growing wise, or telling lies"
A cover version was recorded by
country music singerAlan Jackson on the 1994 tribute album "".
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