Soft-spoken Dallas-based singer Don Henley covered tons of ground in last week’s CBS Sunday Morning interview: He even gave a shout-out to musician-producer Jim Ed Norman, his bandmate in the late-‘60s North Texas group Felicity.
But the singer’s talk with Tracy Smith was mostly about finales — the impending demise of the Eagles and the end of the world as we know it.
“Three of us are 78 years old now, including yours truly … we all have various ailments,” he said, noting his lower spine issues that will require surgery. “This year will probably be it … and I’m OK with that. Because I’d like to spend more time with my family and growing vegetables. There are just lots of other things to do.”
High on his bucket list is visiting his favorite spots around the globe “before it all disappears or gets vaporized.”
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Rock’s most outspoken environmentalist, he’s been warning fans about human destruction of the planet since “The Last Resort” on 1976’s Hotel California. And his actions speak as loud as his lyrics. In the ‘90s, he co-founded the Caddo Lake Institute to protect the sprawling East Texas wetland near his childhood home in Linden, as well as the Walden Woods Project in Massachusetts.
Henley plugged Henry David Thoreau, a three-hour PBS documentary airing March 30-31 that he executive produced with Ken Burns. The singer appears in the film talking about the legacy of the transcendentalist author behind Walden; or, Life in the Woods.
The singer refused to flat-out say the Eagles are calling it quits. “I’ve said things like that before,” he said with a grin, referring to the band’s “Farewell 1 Tour” in 2004.
But if you’re deadest on seeing them live one last time, the last scheduled shows of “The Long Goodbye” tour — now featuring Dallas guitarist Christopher Holt in the lineup — take place this month and in March at the Sphere in Las Vegas and May 2 at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. You can watch the extended CBS interview on YouTube.
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