Seven Bridges Road #2 Traditional Cache

This Seven Bridges Road series of caches is a take off of the hit song by the Eagles in 1980 of the same name. They shouldn't give you any problem to locate but will help you up your numbers somewhat.

"Seven Bridges Road" is a song written by American musician Steve Young, recorded in 1969 for his Rock Salt & Nails album. It has since been covered by many artists, the best-known version being a five-part harmony arrangement by English musician Iain Matthews recorded by the American rock band the Eagles in 1980. Steve Young was inspired to eventually write "Seven Bridges Road" during a sojourn in Montgomery, Alabama in the early 1960s: according to Young "a group of friends...showed me a road that led out of town...after you had crossed seven bridges you found yourself out in the country on a dirt road. I thought my friends had made up the name 'Seven Bridges Road'. I found out later that it had been called by that name for over a hundred years."

Woodley Road, a rural road running south from the outskirts of Montgomery which features seven bridges, is generally identified as the song's locale, although Young himself has never evidently endorsed this identification.

The Eagles recorded "Seven Bridges Road" for their Eagles Live concert album, essentially replicating the arrangement of the 1973 Iain Matthews version. According to band member Don Felder, when the Eagles first began playing stadiums the group would warm-up pre-concert by singing "Seven Bridges Road" in a locker room shower area: each concert would then open with the group's five members singing "Seven Bridges Road" a capella into a single microphone, with Felder recalling: "it blew the audience away. It was always a vocally unifying moment, all five voices coming together in harmony."

This road the "County Line" does not end up on a dirt road, although I'm sure at one time it did. It has become a busy and well used road ever since they reconstructed and repaved it.