Don Henley - Riverbend, Cincinnati, OH, 7-23-1991

I just posted a Susanna Hoffs concert, in which she was the opening act for Don Henley. Both performances are available as soundboard bootlegs, so I figured why not post the Henley set at the same time? Here it is.

Like the Hoffs opening act, the sound quality was so excellent on this that I barely had to change a thing. As Henley mentioned in his comments between songs, this concert was being filmed so some songs could be shown on a TV show, and it was also being professionally recorded as a possible live album. And, in fact, as I write this in 2023, Henley has only released one live album, in 2002, that's a fair amount shorter than this one. 

In my opinion, Henley's solo career peaked around 1989, with the release on his "The End of the Innocence" album. This was still part of a very long tour to promote that album. Three years after this, the Eagles would reunite, and he would put a good amount of his attention and talent to Eagles albums and tours. He also slowed his solo career way down, only releasing two solo studio albums in the thirty years since this show. So this was an ideal time for a live album. Too bad he never put it out, but now you can have it here.

As one would expect, Henley did a roughly even mix of Eagles songs and solo songs. He also did one unexpected cover, "River," by Joni Mitchell.

Although I didn't have to fix the music at all, I did trim the fat between songs some. Towards the end, there was a lot of cheering for encores. I shorten some of the applause. Also, near the end, he talked about some preservation efforts related to Walden Pond. I cut out a section where he listed a good chunk of guest authors for a book helping with that effort. That alone cut about two minutes.

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long.

01 Dirty Laundry (Don Henley)
02 Drivin' with Your Eyes Closed (Don Henley)
03 talk (Don Henley)
04 The End of the Innocence (Don Henley)
05 Gimme What You Got (Don Henley)
06 talk (Don Henley)
07 Wasted Time (Don Henley)
08 Sunset Grill (Don Henley)
09 New York Minute (Don Henley)
10 talk (Don Henley)
11 I Will Not Go Quietly (Don Henley)
12 talk (Don Henley)
13 Victim of Love (Don Henley)
14 talk (Don Henley)
15 The Heart of the Matter (Don Henley)
16 The Boys of Summer (Don Henley)
17 All She Wants to Do Is Dance (Don Henley)
18 Hotel California (Don Henley)
19 Life in the Fast Lane (Don Henley)
20 Witchy Woman (Don Henley)
21 talk (Don Henley)
22 River (Don Henley)
23 talk (Don Henley)
24 Desperado (Don Henley)
25 talk (Don Henley)
26 The Last Worthless Evening (Don Henley)
27 talk (Don Henley)

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The cover photo comes from a concert at The Gorge in George, Washington, in 1991. I deliberately used the same font and rainbow colors as the Susanna Hoffs concert also recorded on this night, to help link the two of them together.