"Seven Bridges Road" served as a warm-up song before becoming Eagles' final classic-era Top 40 hit. Prior to that, it was a tucked-away cover on a Mike Nesmith-produced album by British folk rocker Iain Matthews.
But the late singer-songwriter Steve Young's best-known track actually began life along a lonesome highway outside Montgomery, Ala.
He was traveling one night with friends Jimmy Evans and Wayne Greenhaw when they stopped to marvel at the moss-covered scene under a full moon. "Steve got out on the right-side fender," Evans, who later served as Alabama's attorney general, said in
Surrounded by such beauty, Young said the initial lines came rushing out. Moments like this soon inspired him to give up a 3AM delivery route for Hall Brothers Dairy and focus on music full time.