Those Cruel Shoes Steve Martin And The Eagles

Those Shoes Album: The Long Run (1979)
by Eagles

Cruel Shoes is a collection of essays and short stories by Steve Martin and is also the title of one of the essays included, a satirical short-short story about a woman in a shoe store.

Cruel Shoes was Martin’s first book, released in 1977 as a handmade limited edition of 750 signed and numbered books published by Press of the Pegacycle Lady (Victoria Dailey). The cover is just pale paper over pressboard. It only contained 48 pages and many of the stories that appeared in the trade version were not included.

Table of contents
The works included in the 1979 trade edition of the book are:

"My Uncle's Metaphysics"
"Demolition of Cathedral at Chart
"Annareddy Akshayareddy and her struggle"
"The Boring Leading the Bored"
"Cruel Shoes"
"The Bohemians"
"Serious Dogs"
"The Diarrhea Gardens of El Camino Real"
"Turds"
"The Undertakers"
"The Day the Dopes Came Over"
"The Smokers"
"She Had The Jugs"
"Sex Crazed Love Goddesses"
"Women Without Bones"
"The Children Called Him Big Nose"
"Wrong Number"
"Morse and the Naughty Magnets"
"Dynamite King"
"The Gift of the Magi Indian Giver"
"Poodles... Great Eating"
"Shuckin' the Jive"
"How To Fold Soup"
"The Vengeful Curtain Rod"
"Cows In Trouble"
"The Complete Works of Alfredo Francesi"
"Society In Aspen"
"The Day the Buffalo Danced"
"Things Not To Be"
"No Man's Land"
"Oh Mercy, The Prose-Poem Triptych!"
"Comedy Events You Can Do"
"Dr. Fitzkee's Lucky Astrology Diet"
"The Morning I Got Out of Bed"
"What to Say When the Ducks Show Up"
"The Year Winter Lasted Nine Minutes"
"The Almaden Summer"
"The Nervous Father"
"Dogs In My Nose"
"Awards"
"Rivers of the Dead"
"When Men Shop"
"The Last Thing On My Mind"

Limited 1977 edition
"Confessions"
"Smokers"
"Jugs"
"Women"
"Poodles"
"Alfredo"
"Cows"
"Self-review"
"Serious"
"S.M. Collection of Am. Art"
"Day"
"Sex Crazed"
"Wrong #"
"Morse"
"Gift"
"Fold Soup"
"Dr. Fitzkees"
"Morning"
"Year"
"Last Thing"
"Other Books"
"My Uncle's"
"The Day"
"Children"

The Long Run is the sixth studio album by American rock group the Eagles. It was released in 1979, on Asylum in the United States and the United Kingdom. This was the first Eagles album to feature Timothy B. Schmit, who had replaced founding member Randy Meisner, and the last full studio album to feature Don Felder before his termination from the band in 2001.

This was the band's final studio album for Asylum Records. It also turned out to be their last studio album as the Eagles disbanded in 1980 until 2007's Long Road Out of Eden after the band had reformed in 1994.

The album was originally intended to be a double album. The band could not come up with enough songs and the idea was therefore scrapped. The recording was protracted; they started recording in 1978, and the album took 18 months to record in five different studios, with the album finally released in September 1979. According to Don Henley, the band members were "completely burned out" and "physically, emotionally, spiritually and creatively exhausted" from a long tour when they started recording the album, and they had few songs. However, they managed to put together ten songs for the album, with contribution from their friends J. D. Souther and Bob Seger who co-wrote with Frey and Henley on "Heartache Tonight". (Souther also got songwriting credit on "Teenage Jail" and "The Sad Cafe".)

According to Henley, the title track was in part a response to press articles that said they were "passé" as disco was then dominant and punk emerging, which inspired lines such as "Who is gonna make it/ We'll find out in the long run". He said that the inspiration for the lyrics was also "irony", as they wrote about longevity and posterity while the group "was breaking apart, imploding under the pressure of trying to deliver a worthy follow-up to Hotel California".

Randy Meisner decided to leave the Eagles after an argument in Knoxville, Tennessee, during the Hotel California Tour in June 1977. He was replaced by Timothy B. Schmit,