Far Out Magazine highlights ‘Pretty Maids All in a Row’, a 1976 Eagles song co-written by Joe Walsh, as an unusually personal and emotionally difficult work for him. The article argues that its inward-looking subject matter stood apart from much of the band’s better-known storytelling and revealed a more vulnerable side of Walsh.

Walsh described the song as a melancholy reflection on his life and said Don Henley and Glenn Frey helped develop it. He reportedly found it hard to perform during the Eagles’ 1994 MTV Unplugged session, calling it “so beautiful” before singing it; Bob Dylan later praised it as potentially one of the best songs ever.