# Who first recorded "Seven Bridges Road?"

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**Created:** [November 13, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-first-recorded-seven-bridges-road/213031 "2003-11-13T15:19:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\
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I was listening to The Best of The Eagles yesterday and happened to noctice that the song was written by Steve Young and had at one time been recorded by Matthews Southern Comfort.

1. Who is Steve Young?

2. Who recorded it first?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-first-recorded-seven-bridges-road/213031/2 "2003-11-13T15:37:10Z")

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[Steve Young](http://www.talentondisplay.com/kicprofiles10.html)

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> With the title track of 1971’s Seven Bridges Road, he offered perhaps his best-known composition, popularized through a series of covers by artists like the Eagles, Joan Baez, Rita Coolidge and Iain Matthews. He remained a prolific artist throughout the remainder of the decade, releasing albums like 1975’s Honky Tonk Man, 1976’s Renegade Picker, and 1978’s No Place to Fall.

[AMG Page](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDMISS70311131018282229&sql=B2227gjwrj6ip)

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**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-first-recorded-seven-bridges-road/213031/3 "2003-11-13T20:52:31Z")

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Aside: “Seven Bridges Road” was written about Woodley Road in Montgomery, Alabama, my hometown. The road is so named because of the fact that it runs through the Catoma Creek swamp, with its ancient, moss-covered trees and palmetto understory, and the road-builders had to put in a series of bridges to deal with the frequent streams. The drive is quite beautiful, and gives you the impression of being in a forest far more primeval than one on the edge of a largish Southern city.