Joe Walsh - But Seriously, Folks... (1978)

Joe Walsh - But Seriously, Folks... (1978)

Tracklist front / back album covers

1. "Over and Over"   4:53

2. "Second Hand Store"   3:35

3. "Indian Summer"   3:03

4. "At the Station"   5:08

5. "Tomorrow"   3:39

6. "Inner Tube"    1:25

7. "Theme from Boat Weirdos"   4:43

8. "Life's Been Good" (Life's Been Good ends at 8:04 and is followed by an untitled hidden track that runs for 42 seconds)    8:56

Total length:   36:14

 

Musicians Band Members / Musicians

Joe Walsh – vocals, synthesizers, guitars

Jay Ferguson – keyboards

Joe Vitale – synthesizers, drums, percussion, flute, backing vocals (1-4, 7, 8)

Joey Murcia – 2nd guitar

Willie Weeks – bass

Don Felder – pedal steel guitar (2), guitar (4)

Bill Szymczyk – tambourine (4), backing vocals (8)

Jody Boyer – backing vocals (2, 3, 8)

Glenn Frey – background vocal arrangements and backing vocals (6)

Don Henley – backing vocals (6)

Timothy B. Schmit – backing vocals

Bill Szymczyk – producer, engineer, digital remastering

Ed Mashal – engineer

Ted Jensen – mastering

Jimmy Wachtel – album design, cover photography, sleeve photography

Michael Curtis – design assistant

Mark Foltz – design assistant

Jage Jackson – design assistant

Lorrie Sullivan – sleeve photography

Recorded at Bayshore Studios (Coconut Grove, Florida)

Mastered at Sterling Sound (New York City, New York)

But Seriously, Folks... is the 4th studio album by the American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Walsh. The album was released in mid-1978, on the Asylum label. It included the satirical song "Life's Been Good". The original 8:04 (8:57 on CD releases with a speech at the end) album version of this track was edited down to 4:35 for single release, and this became Walsh's biggest solo hit, peaking at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The album also featured the other four members of Eagles – which Walsh had joined two years earlier – as well as singer-keyboardist Jay Ferguson, a former member of the groups Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne (who co-wrote one track on the album), drummer Joe Vitale from Walsh's former band Barnstorm, and bassist Willie Weeks.