Joe Walsh - There Goes the Neighborhood (1981)

Joe Walsh - There Goes the Neighborhood (1981)

Tracklist front / back album covers

Side one

1. "Things"   5:40

2. "Made Your Mind Up"   4:24

3. "Down on the Farm"   3:10

4. "Rivers (Of the Hidden Funk)"   5:06

Side two

5. "A Life of Illusion"   3:30

6. "Bones"   4:32

7. "Rockets"   3:55

8. "You Never Know"   5:20

Total length:   35:37

 

Joe Walsh Band Members / Musicians

Joe Walsh – vocals, guitars, acoustic piano (1), synthesizers (1), keyboards (2), jawbone (3), organ (4), noises (7)

Tom Stephenson – organ (6)

Don Felder – guitars (4, 8), talk box (4)

Bob Mayo – 12-string guitar (4)

Kenny Passarelli – guitarrón (6), trumpet (6)

George "Chocolate" Perry – bass (1-4, 6, 7, 8), backing vocals (1), percussion (7)

Joe Vitale – drums, backing vocals (1, 2, 7), tambourine (4), acoustic piano (6)

Russ Kunkel – triangle (3)

Victor Feldman – percussion (8)

David Lindley – violin (3, 6), backing vocals (6)

Timothy B. Schmit – backing vocals (1)

Jody Boyer – backing vocals (4, 6, 8)

Joe Walsh – producer

George "Chocolate" Perry – producer

Jim Nipar – recording, mixing

James Geddes – recording assistant, mix assistant

Mike Reese – mastering

Jeff Adamoff – art direction, design

Jim Shea – photography

Todd Andrews – sleeve photography

Irving Azoff – management for Front Line Entertainment

Recorded and mixed at Santa Barbara Sound Recording (Santa Barbara, California).

Mastered at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California).

There Goes the Neighborhood is the 4th solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Walsh, sometime-guitarist for the Eagles. The album was released in May 1981, by Asylum Records, three years after Walsh's album But Seriously, Folks... (1978).

The album features contributions from two Eagles' members Don Felder and Timothy B. Schmit as well as session musicians including Russ Kunkel, David Lindley, Bob Mayo, and Victor Feldman.

The album peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard 200. The album only spawned one charting single, "A Life of Illusion", which would become one of Walsh's most popular songs and reached No. 34 at on the Billboard Hot 100. The single also topped the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.