What’s the Greatest Song Joe Walsh Ever Wrote? 

When my son passed away 12 years ago at the age of 27 I listen to his iPod to hear the last song he listened to and it was Life’s Been Good. Thank you Joe Walsh because I know you made him smile.☮️💟

Wow. A rock star who actually answered a question about how he wrote a song without shrouding it in bullshit mystique and opacity. Props to Joe!

The best part is you know he ain’t bullshitin he definitely left that mower running 🤣

I don't think Joe Walsh will ever get the appreciation he deserves. Such a great guitarist and what an amazing, distinct voice. Great interview Howard.

Life’s Been Good is my personal favorite

I absolutely love Joe Walsh…..what a character! So open and honest. He just tells it as it is!

No one is more down to earth than Joe , damn what a American treasure !!! Thanks Joe !!!!!!!!!!!

I love how Joe can answer that question fully and in great detail without even a hint of arrogance. P.S. he sounds awesome in that performance clip.

"That guy sounds just like Joe Walsh!" Are words that will never be said by anyone.

Life of Illusion is my favorite song of all time

Joe Walsh is one of the greatest guitar players ever.

Joe Walsh is the coolest, most humble rock star I know! What a great talent! Love everything he ever touched.

I spent some time in rehab for alcoholism while in the Navy in 2018. I was pretty sure no one understood me until I had a counselor, the first time she’d ever met me, said “hi”and said “I’d like to play something for you.” And she sat me down and played “One Day At A Time.” The only time I shed a tear while I was there and one of the nicest things a human had ever done for me. So that’s my favorite of Joe’s tunes. But I play along with Rocky Mountain way on the drums about every day too :) Anyways, Joe is a legend!

Walk Away is the best song as far as I'm concerned. I love that song.

'In The City' and 'Life's Been Good' have been my go to songs for decades.

The groove on Funk 49 is off the charts. What a unique song. Just mind blowing.

Funk 49 for fucking sure. This man is the KING of tone.

In The City...what a beautiful masterpiece. ..pure talent!!

Turn to Stone.

Howard Stern, king of all media. Also, king of putting words in ppls mouths

Joe is cool. My favorite story was him on Bob and Tom. He was talking about when he toured with Sabbath. Years later they were trying to reminisce, but nobody could remember what happened. Then he says, well, we knew we played the shows...because we had the posters.

I once bought a book on "build your own guitar effects" (electronic circuits) that had a little plastic 45 record in it with Joe Walsh explaining and demonstrating each effect - cause he's the coolest guy on earth

To me my life has followed Joe Walsh in a sense he was my mentor in my party days then we became sober around the same time.

Joe is an inspiration, he made it through all the drugs and alcohol and is still here to tell the tale. Respect! ✌🎸

Joe is the most under rated guitarist in America. Great performer!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The entire eponymous James Gang album is his best work. Period.

Joe's solo album So What is a criminally underrated and forgotten album. His musical range and songwriting is fantastic

JOE WALSH IS ONE OF THE LAST TRUE LOONS. ❤️

Barnstorm is one of the great underrated, unknown albums for all time.

Life's been good

honorable mention for "Turn to Stone" anyone?

"Help me through the night" is pretty damn great too!!!!

The first record I ever bought was a 45 of life's been good in 1979 (I was 13) and I still stand by it

Gotta love Howard. Asks a question. Interrupts. Asks another question. Interrupts. Asks another question. Goes back to original question.

Howard is funny! “Rock Stars mow lawns?” 😂

"Indian Summer", "Life Of Illusion", and "In The City". My Joe Walsh Faves.

Life's Been Good should also be on that list. Joe is The Man!

Love Joe Walsh he's just so real and down-to-earth no pretentious pompous and egotistic BS

It's The Confessor, hands down.

Everything on Barnstorm. That is a absolute classic.So much beautiful melody. It blends so well . You are the best Joe. Thank you . Much love brother.

Joe once said " if I knew I had to play this song for the rest of my life , I would have written something else ! "

I freaking LOVE Joe Walsh

Joe doesn't just mow the lawn, he also Picks up the dog doo, and Hopes that it's hard!

Rivers (of the hidden funk) - Very underrated song... legend says that eagles declined including this song in their album, what a shame, great song.

Best song has got to be Rocky Mountain Way. Love that song. Great talent in Joe Walsh.

Life's been good, is my personal favorite of his.

Joe Walsh's guitar licks are so damn sweet!

"Falling Down" off "So What" is my favorite Joe Walsh song. "So What" is one of my all time favorite albums by anyone.

Great rocker, advocate for our Vets and supporter for amateur radio! God bless Joe!

Congratulations Joe still sober in 2021 ✌

In The City - from The Long Run. Otherwise, his album Barnstorm 1:53 is very good and most don't know it. It's definately my fav of Joe's solo records although Life s Been Good is excellent as well. What a talent and yes, he saved the Eagles. They maxed out their orig format and started rocking more when Joe came on board. This is why Hotel California just blew up when it came out. I remember the radio promos that mentioned Joe was now an Eagle. That success was well deserved.

One of the coolest and most talented people in Rock! EVER!!

Howard is always fascinated with the writing process.

The Bomber is an all-time kickass song that not enough people have heard.

There is a track on The James Gang 'Yer Album' vinyl called 'Collage'. It's an acoustic number. Great song and my personal favorite of Joe's. Walk Away and Funk #48 are great tracks on that album as well.

I LOVE hearing the back stories behind songs. So good.

I really love how Howard is always seeking answers to the stories behind the creative process of song writing...it's a hard thing to explain 🔥

Every song on So What!

Rocky Mountain Way, Turn To Stone, Life In The Fast Lane, Life's Been Good and In The City are my favorite Joe Walsh songs. Joe's lead and harmony guitar parts in Hotel California is my favorite guitar playing of all time. 🎸👍

About the lawnmower wrecking the garden, love it.lol grad of 76. Joe was king then and now

Luv how he explains the words to the song, just awesome, luv how he's seriously talking about how he's mowing the lawn, then jokes about it being an expensive song to write and laugh about it, thanks Joe, listening to your music since the fifth grade

JOE IS ANOTHER GENIOUS OF THAT TIME, I ADORE HIM

Certain Situations is one Joe's best songs. A living legend. One of the greatest guitarists of all time. and a genuinely nice guy.

ive written music with no words, ive written words with no music, and then years later, its like, hey! this will fit with this, and "boom", there it is, whether someone likes it or not lol

"That groove, you can't do with Pro Tools". LEGEND !

Barnstorm is a timeless masterpiece btw.

Ashes, The Rain, And I is such a haunting and soulful masterpiece. Must mention also Bomber, Confessor, Life of Illusion, I.L.B.T.'s.

In the City and Tend my Garden. Got to capture that inspiration when it hits, screw the lawn!

Had to watch it twice and that wasn't enough

Joe is my favorite Eagle member. But his solo albuns are higher quality. Plus he's an awesome story teller. And what stories,...

That smoker you get is one of my all time favourite albums

"pretty maids all in a row "for me and most of what he wrote in "so what" 1974 joe walsh is excellent on guitar composition arrangement he's got his own sound it matched very well with The Eagles and ..oh i forgot james gang ....an underated genious

In The City. Love the tempo and mood. Eerily foreshadowing eminent danger, yet somehow peaceful.

Howard Stern loves the sound of his own voice and can't wait to butt in.

I loved James Gang........Walk Away is still the bomb

I was hoping he would say Rocky Mountain Way. What a great song.

The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get was my favorite Joe Walsh album. Fabulous.

Rocky mountain way is mine as well. I love how he's got an amazing reason to switch guitars in one song, playing slide on one tuned in open E and another one for his talk box part which by the way is the most badass talk box sound and solo ever recorded.

Turn to stone my favorite

Joe Walsh, man what a fuchin legend , If you can out crazy Keith Moon that is saying something , What a catalogue Walsh has put together.

In the city, hands down. Love joe walsh. Life been good. Wow hard to pick

Lifes been good!! My fav of his

wow joe is so human and what a killer way to write a song amazing wow

Love Joe he's down to earth and has some of the best stories.

I may be completely alone on this but my favorite song of his is the whole Barnstorm album.

Proud to say I saw Joe Walsh at Tom petty last show in the woodlands Texas

Listen to the track HAPPY WAYS from the album SMOKER YOU DRINK...(which is where ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY exists) and you can hear where Joe was going...diverse tracks still with his indelible funk and twangle.

Me too, got the chills... such a down to earth and vivid explanation of a iconic song

Rocky Mountain Way was the first Walsh song I heard ( James Gang didn’t get on UK radio) and instantly made me a fan. However, his greatest surely has to be The Confessor - epic!

My favorite is Life of Illusion. Been an earworm for months now.

Confessor came out at a time in my life that I needed some guidance. It got me thinking about the people I hung out with and where my life was going. I loved it ever since and play it often.

The Confessor is a Masterpiece! Then again, Joe has many many Masterpieces! Love him! ♥️🎼🎵🎶🇨🇦🇨🇦

Song, Rocky Mountain Way. The Smoker You Want, The Player You Get Album!!!!!!!!

People take it for granted just how good JW is......

Absolutely one of the best ever !!!

I wish this whole interview could be uploaded. Would love to see it.

His best song is everything on "So What"...

Wow…I couldn’t imagine the Eagles without Joe Walsh. Don’t get me wrong, The Eagles were great before Joe Walsh, But Joe Walsh delivered the Eagles to GREATNESS!

The Confessor blew my mind in the 80s

There's also a lot of really good songs on the first James Gang album.