Bernie Leadon
Bernie Leadon was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States on July 19th, 1947 and is the Guitarist. At the age of 76, Bernie Leadon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Bernie Leadon (pronounced led-un) is an American singer, songwriter, and founding member of the Eagles, born July 19, 1947.
He was a member of three pioneering and well-respected country rock bands, including Hearts & Flowers, Dillard & Clark, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, before the Eagles.
He is a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, dobro) who comes from a bluegrass background.
During his time with the Eagles, he brought elements of this music to a mainstream audience. Leadon's musical career since leaving the Eagles has been low-key, resulting in two solo albums with a gap of 27 years between them.
Leadon has also appeared on several other artists' albums as a session musician.
Early life and musical beginnings
Leadon met Ed Douglas and Larry Murray of the local bluegrass band the Scottsville Squirl Barkers in San Diego, California. The Barkers were a breeding ground for future California country rock stars, including shy, 18-year-old mandolin player Chris Hillman, with whom Leadon maintained a lifelong friendship. The Squirrel Barkers eventually pleaded with lead actor Kenny Wertz, a future Flying Burrito Brother) until Wertz's joining the Air Force in 1963.
Don Felder, the future Eagles' lead guitarist, had just lost guitarist Stephen Stills.
Leadon was taken to California by ex-Squirrel Barker Larry Murray in 1967 to join his fledgling psychedelic country-folk group Hearts & Flowers, where he became involved with the burgeoning L.A. folk/country rock scene. Leadon's second album, Of Horses, Kids, and Forgotten Women, was released on Capitol Records. The album was a local hit, but it didn't do well on the national album charts, but it didn't make a dent on the national album charts. The company was disbanded the following year, despite being discouraged.
Leadon had befriended bluegrass/banjo legend Doug Dillard, late of the Dillards, by late 1968. Gene Clark, a prolific writer and ex-Byrds member, began to develop, and eventually became Dillard & Clark, a seminal country-rock band that laid the foundation for the country-rock sound that dominated the Los Angeles music scene for the next decade. The group's debut and extremely popular LP, The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark, was released in 1968. Leadon's warm and distinctive backing vocals as well as some innovative multi-instrumental composition were included on the album. Clark's album features several compositions co-written by Clark, most notably the future Eagles staple ("and possibly a signature song for Leadon) from Leadon's debut album, "Train Leaves Here This Morning."
Leadon left Dillard & Clark in 1969, rejoining ex-Squirl Barker (and ex-Byrd) Chris Hillman, a fledgling country-rock band formed by Hillman a year ago with fellow ex-Byrd Gram Parsons. Leadon released two albums with the group: Burrito Deluxe and the Post-Parsons LP The Flying Burrito Bros. Leadon had grown out of the band's commercial success and left the band to pursue a chance to perform with three artists with whom he had worked with while moonlighting in Linda Ronstadt's backing band. The Eagles' resultant program was a hit, and he deserved it.
Personal life
Tom Leadon, a member of the band Mudcrutch, which began Tom Petty's career, is his brother.
Leadon lived in Topanga Canyon, a bohemian enclave known for its musician residents, for a few years in the mid-1970s. Leadon's house-plus-recording-studio had previously been owned by singer-songwriter Neil Young and was the scene of several parties. Leadon worked with Patti Davis, the free-spirited daughter of conservative California Governor Ronald Reagan, who was campaigning for president Ronald Reagan and distanced himself from his daughter because Leadon and her daughter were unmarried but living together. Leadon and Davis co-wrote the song "I Wish You Peace," which Leadon insisted the Eagles include on the album "One of These Nights, despite his bandmates' wishes.
He currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is a session musician and producer.
Later career
Leadon retreated from the limelight after leaving the Eagles, only to resurface in 1977 with musician friend Michael Georgiades on guitars and alternate lead vocals, featuring Leadon and Georgiades on guitars and alternate lead vocals, Dave Kemper on drums, and Steve Goldstein on keyboard.
Under the name Ever Call Ready, he released an album of bluegrass and gospel hits in 1985, starring Chris Hillman and Al Perkins. In the late 1980s, he appeared with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for a short time.
He joined Run C&W, a novelty band that performs "bluegrass style," in 1993, recording two albums for MCA Records.
Leadon reunited with the Eagles in New York City in 1998 for the band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On "Take It Easy" and "Hotel California," the seven current and former Eagles players performed together.
Mirror is his second solo effort in 27 years (and first under solely his name) in 2004.
Leadon appeared on the Eagles' third solo album, Silver Liner, from 2013 to 2015.
Leadon appeared at the Grammy Awards ceremony in February 2016, alongside Jackson Browne and the new surviving Eagles members, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit, performing "Take it Easy" in honor of Glenn Frey, who died a month earlier.