“I’m still foolish enough to think that my best work is ahead of me,” Eagles co-founder Don Henley said Thursday night during a private playback session for his forthcoming solo album “Cass County.”
“But I’m going to have to hurry up, though” the 67-year-old singer and songwriter added, wryly acknowledging the 15 years that have lapsed since he last put out an album outside his affiliation with the Eagles. That was "Inside Job" in 2000.
An audience of a few dozen listeners, including journalists, fellow musicians, music industry executives and others filled rows of chairs set up in Capitol Records' historic Studio A in Hollywood for the session, during which eight songs — half the 16 tracks that will be available on the deluxe edition of the album when it’s released this fall — were played.