Complete List Of Don Henley Songs From A to Z

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Don Henley was born in Gilmer, Texas, and raised in Linden. He began playing music while attending high school and performed with several local groups before joining Shiloh. After producer Kenny Rogers took an interest in the band, Shiloh moved to Los Angeles and released a self-titled album in 1970.

Henley co-founded the Eagles in 1971 with Glenn Frey, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. As the group’s drummer, singer, and one of its principal songwriters, he contributed to recordings including “Desperado,” “Best of My Love,” “One of These Nights,” “Hotel California,” “Life in the Fast Lane,” and “The Long Run.”

Following the Eagles’ initial breakup, Henley released his first solo album, I Can’t Stand Still, in 1982. The album included “Dirty Laundry,” “Johnny Can’t Read,” “Talking to the Moon,” and “The Unclouded Day.” During the same period, he also appeared on Stevie Nicks’s “Leather and Lace” and recorded “Love Rules” for the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Building the Perfect Beast followed in 1984. “The Boys of Summer,” “All She Wants to Do Is Dance,” “Sunset Grill,” and “Not Enough Love in the World” established the album as one of the defining releases of Henley’s solo career. “The Boys of Summer” earned the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male.

Henley released The End of the Innocence in 1989. Its title track, co-written with Bruce Hornsby, joined “The Heart of the Matter,” “New York Minute,” “The Last Worthless Evening,” and “I Will Not Go Quietly” on an album centered on personal change, public life, and the passage of time.

His 1995 compilation Actual Miles: Henley’s Greatest Hits introduced “The Garden of Allah,” “You Don’t Know Me at All,” and his recording of Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows.” Henley returned with the studio album Inside Job in 2000, featuring “Taking You Home,” “For My Wedding,” “Everything Is Different Now,” and “My Thanksgiving.”

Cass County, released in 2015, brought Henley back to the country, gospel, and roots music that surrounded him in East Texas. The album included collaborations with Mick Jagger, Miranda Lambert, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Martina McBride, Alison Krauss, Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gill, Lucinda Williams, and other performers.

Henley’s solo catalog also includes soundtrack recordings, tribute-album performances, and duets with artists including Stevie Nicks, Patty Smyth, Trisha Yearwood, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Reba McEntire, Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis, Vince Gill, Linda Ronstadt, and the Dillards. Remastered editions of several of his solo albums were released in 2024 and 2025.

Outside music, Henley founded the Walden Woods Project in 1990 and has remained involved in conservation, environmental education, and artists’ rights. The complete A-to-Z list below preserves the five solo studio albums, compilation-exclusive recordings, soundtrack songs, and officially released collaborations included in this restoration.

Complete List Of Don Henley Songs From A to Z

0–E

“A Month of Sundays” – Building the Perfect Beast (1984) (CD and digital bonus track)
“A Younger Man” – Cass County (2015)
“All She Wants to Do Is Dance” – Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
“Always Gonna Be You” – Old Road New Again (2020) (The Dillards featuring Don Henley and Herb Pedersen)
“Amazing” – Get a Grip (1993) (with Aerosmith)
“Annabel” – Inside Job (2000)
“Bein’ Green” – Kermit Unpigged (1994) (with Kermit the Frog)
“Bless the Children of the World” – Randy Newman’s Faust (1995) (with Randy Newman)
“Bramble Rose” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Mick Jagger and Miranda Lambert)
“Break Each Other’s Hearts Again” – Reba Duets (2007) (with Reba McEntire)
“Building the Perfect Beast” – Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
“Calling Me” – Water & Bridges (2006) (with Kenny Rogers)
“Can Love Stand the Test” – The Country Bears (2002) (with Bonnie Raitt)
“Come Rain or Come Shine (Live)” – The Unplugged Collection, Volume One (1994)
“Damn It, Rose” – Inside Job (2000)
“Dirty Laundry” – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
“Drivin’ with Your Eyes Closed” – Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
“Everybody Knows” – Actual Miles: Henley’s Greatest Hits (1995)
“Everything Is Different Now” – Inside Job (2000)

F–J

“For My Wedding” – Inside Job (2000)
“Garden Party” – The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again (2009) (John Fogerty featuring Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit)
“Gimme What You Got” – The End of the Innocence (1989)
“Goodbye to a River” – Inside Job (2000)
“Hasten Down the Wind” – Hasten Down the Wind (1976) (with Linda Ronstadt)
“Here Come Those Tears Again” – Cass County (2015) (bonus track)
“How Bad Do You Want It?” – The End of the Innocence (1989)
“I Can’t Stand Still” – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
“I Will Not Go Quietly” – The End of the Innocence (1989)
“If Dirt Were Dollars” – The End of the Innocence (1989)
“Inside Job” – Inside Job (2000)
“Inside Out” – Inside Out (2001) (with Trisha Yearwood)
“It Don’t Matter to the Sun” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Stevie Nicks; bonus track)
“It’s So Easy” – C’mon, C’mon (2002) (with Sheryl Crow)
“Johnny Can’t Read” – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)

K–O

“La Eile” – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
“Land of the Living” – Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
“Leather and Lace” – Bella Donna (1981) (with Stevie Nicks)
“Lilah” – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
“Little Tin God” – The End of the Innocence (1989)
“Long Way Home” – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
“Love Her Like She’s Leavin’” – This Is Country Music (2011) (Brad Paisley featuring Don Henley)
“Love Rules” – Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
“Love You Anyway” – Every Girl (2019) (Trisha Yearwood featuring Don Henley)
“Man with a Mission” – Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
“Miss Ghost” – Inside Job (2000)
“More Life” – Anniversary Celebration (2011) (Randy Travis featuring Don Henley)
“My Last Sunset” – Old Road New Again (2020) (The Dillards featuring Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Herb Pedersen)
“My Thanksgiving” – Inside Job (2000)
“New York Minute” – The End of the Innocence (1989)
“No, Thank You” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Vince Gill)
“Nobody Else in the World But You” – Inside Job (2000)
“Nobody’s Business” – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
“Not Enough Love in the World” – Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
“Old Road New Again” – Old Road New Again (2020) (The Dillards featuring Don Henley and Herb Pedersen)

P–T

“Passin’ Thru” – Earl Scruggs and Friends (2001) (with Earl Scruggs and Johnny Cash)
“Praying for Rain” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Molly Felder, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Ashley Monroe, and Trisha Yearwood)
“Sacrifice” – Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin (2018) (with Vince Gill)
“Searching for a Heart” – Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon (2004)
“Shakey Ground” – Duets (1993) (with Elton John)
“Shangri-La” – The End of the Innocence (1989)
“She Sang Hymns Out of Tune” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Court Yard Hounds and Ashley Monroe)
“She’s on the Zoom” – Vision Quest (1985)
“Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” – Leap of Faith (1992)
“Snakes and Ladders” – Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm (1988) (with Joni Mitchell)
“Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough” – Patty Smyth (1992) (with Patty Smyth)
“Sunset Grill” – Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
“Take a Picture of This” – Cass County (2015)
“Taking You Home” – Inside Job (2000)
“Talking to the Moon” – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
“That Old Flame” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Martina McBride)
“The Boys of Summer” – Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
“The Brand New Tennessee Waltz” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Alison Krauss)
“The Cost of Living” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Merle Haggard)
“The End of the Innocence” – The End of the Innocence (1989)
“The Garden of Allah” – Actual Miles: Henley’s Greatest Hits (1995)
“The Genie” – Inside Job (2000)
“The Heart of the Matter” – The End of the Innocence (1989)
“The Last Worthless Evening” – The End of the Innocence (1989)
“The Man” – Randy Newman’s Faust (1995) (with Randy Newman)
“The Unclouded Day” – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
“Them and Us” – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
“These Days” – Looking Into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne (2014) (with Blind Pilot)
“They’re Not Here, They’re Not Coming” – Inside Job (2000)
“Through Your Hands” – Michael (1996)
“Too Far Gone” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Alison Krauss and Jamey Johnson)
“Too Much Pride” – Cass County (2015)
“Train in the Distance” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Lucinda Williams)

U–Z

“Waiting Tables” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Jamey Johnson and Lee Ann Womack)
“Walkaway Joe” – Hearts in Armor (1992) (Trisha Yearwood featuring Don Henley)
“Watching TV” – Amused to Death (1992) (with Roger Waters)
“What Makes the Irish Heart Beat” – Last Man Standing (2006) (with Jerry Lee Lewis)
“When I Stop Dreaming” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Dolly Parton)
“Where I Am Now” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Trisha Yearwood)
“Who Owns This Place?” – The Color of Money (1986)
“Words Can Break Your Heart” – Cass County (2015) (featuring Trisha Yearwood)
“Workin’ It” – Inside Job (2000)
“You Better Hang Up” – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
“You Can’t Make Love” – Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
“You Don’t Know Me at All” – Actual Miles: Henley’s Greatest Hits (1995)
“You’re Not Drinking Enough” – Building the Perfect Beast (1984)