Jack Tempchin Explained

Jack Tempchin
Background:	non_performing_personnel
Birth Place:	Ohio
Occupation:	Musician, singer, songwriter
Instrument:	Guitar, piano
Associated Acts:	Eagles

Jack Tempchin is an American musician and singer-songwriter who wrote the Eagles song "Peaceful Easy Feeling"^[1] and co-wrote "Already Gone",^[2] "The Girl from Yesterday",^[3] "Somebody"^[4] and "It's Your World Now".^[5]

Career

During the Eagles' breakup period (1980–1994) he co-wrote with Glenn Frey producing "You Belong to the City", "Smuggler's Blues", "The One You Love", "I Found Somebody", "Sexy Girl" and "True Love".^[6]

Tempchin wrote "Slow Dancing".^[7] The song was first recorded in 1976 by the short-lived group Funky Kings, of which Tempchin and Jules Shear were members at the time. In 1977, the song became a top-10 pop hit for Johnny Rivers titled as "Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancing)",^[8] and in 1979 it was a top-10 country hit for Johnny Duncan.^[9]

Tempchin has also toured extensively as a solo artist over the years, opening for Ringo Starr, Jackson Browne, Dave Mason, Poco, Dolly Parton, Karla Bonoff, Chicago, Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, Timothy B. Schmit, Barry McGuire, Tom Rush, Al Kooper and Emmylou Harris.

Tempchin was voted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019.

Other compositions include:^[10]

• "Someone That You Used to Know" (George Jones)
• "White Shoes" (Emmylou Harris, Randy Meisner)
• "Rollin'" (Glen Campbell)
• "To Feel That Way at All" (Patty Loveless)
• "Somebody Trying to Tell You Something" (Tanya Tucker)
• "You Can Go Home" (with Chris Hillman, recorded by The Desert Rose Band in 1991)
• "Your Tattoo" (Sammy Kershaw)
• "East of Eden" (Tom Rush)
• "15 Days Under the Hood" (Jack Tempchin, The Paladins, New Riders of the Purple Sage)
• "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed" (Phantom Blues Band, Candye Kane)
• "Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancing)" (Funky Kings (as "Slow Dancing", Johnny Rivers, Olivia Newton-John, Ian Gomm and Johnny Duncan)

Discography

with The Funky Kings

• 1976 The Funky Kings

Solo albums

• 1978 Jack Tempchin
• 1994 After the Rain
• 1995 Lonely Midnight
• 1997 Best of Jack Tempchin (includes newly recorded versions of "Already Gone" and "Peaceful Easy Feeling")
• 2000 Live on Hwy 101
• 2004 Staying Home
• 2007 Songs
• 2012 Live at Tales from the Tavern
• 2015 Learning to Dance
• 2016 One More Song
• 2017 Peaceful Easy Feeling – The Songs of Jack Tempchin
• 2019 One More Time with Feeling

Further reading

• News: Christgau. Robert. Robert Christgau. January 29, 1979. Consumer Guide. The Village Voice. A review of Tempchin's 1978 self-titled album.

External links

• Official Website
• Official MySpace
• Songs composed by Jack Tempchin
• Jack Tempchin Interview at NAMM Oral History Library (2010)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Eagles Peaceful Easy Feeling Composed by Jack Tempchin. AllMusic. March 28, 2015.
2. Web site: Eagles Already Gone Composed by Jack Tempchin/Robb Strandlund. AllMusic. March 28, 2015.
3. Web site: Eagles The Girl from Yesterday Composed by Glenn Frey/Jack Tempchin . . March 28, 2015.
4. Web site: Eagles Somebody Composed by Jack Tempchin/John Brannen . . March 28, 2015 . 2007.
5. Web site: Eagles It's Your World Now Composed by Glenn Frey/Jack Tempchin . . March 28, 2015 . 2007.
6. Web site: Glenn Frey. . April 22, 2009.
7. Web site: Swayin to the Music (Slow Dancin'). AllMusic. March 28, 2015.
8. Web site: Eder. Bruce. Johnny Rivers Awards. AllMusic. March 28, 2015. 1977 Swayin' To The Music (Slow Dancin') The Billboard Hot 100#10.
9. Web site: Johnny Duncan Awards. AllMusic. March 28, 2015. 1979. 1979 "Slow Dancing" Country Singles #6.
10. Web site: Jack Tempchin Credits. AllMusic. March 28, 2015.