Joe Walsh Featured on Former Bandmate’s “Daughter Of Zion” by Glenn Schwartz

Written By Mike Greenblatt

The compilation album Tell Everybody! 20th Century Juke Joint Blues won’t be released until August 11 but Easy Eye Sound has rush-released a hot number, “Daughter Of Zion,” by Glenn Schwartz, produced by Dan Auerbach, as a teaser. Schwartz played guitar in Cleveland’s James Gang until Joe Walsh replaced him. Walsh, after graduating Montclair High School, went to Kent State but lasted only one semester when the lure of rock’n’roll became too great to be ignored. (He knew the “four dead in Ohio” whom Neil Young wrote about.)

Auerbach remembers Schwartz:  “Glenn was my biggest rock’n’roll inspiration. There would be no Black Keys without Glenn Schwartz, that’s for sure. I really miss him. He was a sweet man who loved the Lord and loved music so much. I really respected his conviction.” [Schwartz was born in 1940, started The James Gang in 1966, left in 1967, and died in 2018 at 78.]

See Auerbach, Walsh and Schwartz righteously jam here:

Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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