J.D. Souther Is DEAD TO ME!

Aw this makes me very sad.

If you're only lonely.... RIP

if i could steal a time machine from the guy who was going to go back in time and kill hitler, i'd go back in time and kill every member of the shitty fucking eagles

Oh, wow. He was never a superstar but he's on the periphery of a lot of legends about the music business.

He's the subject of at least some of the songs that Judee Sill wrote - she loved him and he was a manwhore and left her.

The pop song I remember best is his duet with James Taylor.....

Linda Ronstadt used to dedicate his song Faithless Love to him because she said it was something he knew a lot about.

Odd that he really never became a star because he had the looks and talent.

He was definitely popular with the ladies.

You never seem particularly heterosexual to me.

Damn...so hot!

As I've gotten older, I have renewed appreciation for the Eagles and even Don Henley. "New Kid in Town" is maybe a corny song, but I think it's also a really good song.

Not Watty White!

God took the wrong J.D.

Faithless Love...so many tears.

[quote]God took the wrong J.D.

Oh, honey...

From one of my favorite movies as a teenager

"You must be a prisoner

You look just like a prisoner

You must be a prisoner in disguise"

- Linda and J.D.

He was never as famous as the people he wrote songs for. Variety.com:

[quote] He was comfortable with his level of renown. Henley, he said, is “being paid really well to be on the road in Europe with the Eagles, and I’m being paid less well to sit here on my farm and watch my dogs run around in the field. But I don’t know how I would deal with it the other way around. I always try to be grateful. My father was very insistent on having good manners when people approached me or complimented me or something.

[quote] But I like the fact that I don’t get made up before I go out of the house or check to be sure my hair looks great. I’ve got on these beat-up old boots right now and some Levi’s with a hole in the knee. I don’t really want to be stopped when I’m in the grocery store and have somebody pay a bunch of attention to me. I’ll be nice if that happens, but it’s not what I want.”

You're Only Lonely. It could be a DL anthem or theme song, so here it is.

Nooooooooooooooooooo luv ya JD. RIP. You brightened up my teenage years. *chef's kiss.

In his interview for the Linda Ronstadt documentary you could really tell she was the love of his life.

Remember when Hope almost had an affair with him on thirtysomething?

Linda was smart to never get married to any of these guys.

Linda almost went down the aisle with George Lucas as well.

I think George and Jerry Brown remain very close to her, which probably helps a lot given her condition right now.

One of Judee Sill's songs about J.D.

He was the "stranger" she trusted.

The Eagles are what straight suburban men think is acceptable expression of male emotion.

He had a huge cock.

I believe the photo at R24 provides Verificatia of Sizemeat

R25- He was a bottom.

It used to be his town, too.

He lived in New Mexico outside of Albuquerquw. I wonder if we were neighbors. I use to live outside of Albuquerque about 10 years ago.

Me? Debonair?

Fuck you, OP.

Always thought he was a cute '70s type. I would have overlooked the beard for him.

Since I never got to sample his charms, I'm glad our girl Linda did.

[quote]i'd go back in time and kill every member of the shitty fucking eagles

Souther wasn't in the Eagles.

Souther was Eagles-adjacent.

You're Only Lonely was gorgeous, had a very Roy Orbison vibe to it.

Yes, very Roy Orbison.

JD is on camera talking about Judee.

i really enjoyed this documentary

He wrote some great songs. That sucks that he was gearing up to tour.

I was just playing my Souther-Hillman-Furay Band album earlier this week. He wrote or co-wrote a handful of hits including a few by The Eagles.

R24: which is why Linda Ronstadt LOVED him. That girl had tons of hot dick in her day.

[quote] That sucks that he was gearing up to tour.

Well, he was 78.

One of his great, unsung, contributions to music was his co-write (with RZ and Mike Campbell) of Robin Zander's solo single, "I've Always Got You." Absolutely worth checking out.

I was there the night he was inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the Marriot Marquis in NYC.

His tour was with Karla Bonoff, and was slated to start after the first of the year.

It sounds sudden, most likely a heart attack.

I heard a story about a time when Ronstadt showed up at his house for a roll in the hay only to discover Joni Mitchell just about to leave after having sex with him.

Manwhore indeed!

Joni was another who got a lot of dick in the 70s.

One reason he didn't take off as a solo artist was that his singing could be very uneven. I have a couple of his albums and some tracks are fine while on others his voice sounds very thin.

R44. Joni use to take it from Both Sides Now...

One might assume he was enjoying somewhat decent health if he was scheduling tour dates.

The Eagles songwriting royalties from the early 70s must have given him the option to never work again if he lived modestly, which it appears he did.

He's never been in tabloids really, has he?

Joni did get some good dick.

Joni was a known size queen so if she was with JD that is, in fact, verificatia of sizemeat.

Did he ever bang Stevie Nicks?

I thought he moved to Nashville so I was surprised he was now based out of New Mexico.

He did suffer from the stigma of being Linda Ronstadt's songwriter. He would try his own songs and they just didn't sound very good.

Why would it be a "stigma" to be Linda R's songwriter?

R52, because he would release his own versions of the songs she covered and they never compared. He wanted to be known as a solo artist. Ironically Karla Bonoff suffered from the exact same fate.

Hmm, tried to comment and it didn't post, but I was about to say exactly what R53 said.

Bonoff has made a few great albums but her work was always overshadowed by LR's recordings of her songs.

R54, I remember a Rolling Stone review in the late 70s about Karla Bonoff. They savagely said that if she wants to be known, she has to stop writing songs that only make sense when Ronstadt sings them.

Well, if Linda Ronstadt in the '70s is singing your songs, how do you expect to expect to top that? He should have just been happy with the royalties.

He's a guy with a huge ego. He had to have thought he was better but he was always in her shadow.

Bonoff was a very dull singer. All you have to do is compare Ronstadt's or Raitt's covers of her songs and then listen to her to hear a world of difference.

Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, & JD in 1977.

the Variety tribute is pretty thorough

[quote]r56 Well, if Linda Ronstadt in the '70s is singing your songs, how do you expect to expect to top that? He should have just been happy with the royalties.

He was a greedy, grasping cunt... wanted the whole pie.

Emotionally, he was a fat fame whore!

Another interview, this one with the audiophile press.