Jack Tempchin


Jack Tempchin is an American musician and singer-songwriter who wrote the Eagles song "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and co-wrote "Already Gone", "The Girl from Yesterday", "Somebody" and "It's Your World Now".

Career

During the Eagles' breakup period he co-wrote with Glenn Frey producing "You Belong to the City", "Smuggler's Blues", "The One You Love", "I Found Somebody", "Sexy Girl" and "True Love".
Tempchin wrote "Slow Dancing". The song was first recorded in 1976 by the short-lived group Funky Kings, of which Tempchin and Jules Shear were members at the time. In 1977, the song became a top-10 pop hit for Johnny Rivers titled as "Swayin' to the Music ", and in 1979 it was a top-10 country hit for Johnny Duncan.
Tempchin has also toured extensively as a solo artist over the years, opening for Ringo Starr, Jackson Browne, Dave Mason, Poco, Dolly Parton, Karla Bonoff, Chicago, Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, Timothy B. Schmit, Barry McGuire, Tom Rush, Al Kooper and Emmylou Harris.
Tempchin was voted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019. In 2024, filmmaker and fellow-songwriter Gregory Page released a feature-length experimental documentary, Midnight Jack: The Movie, which features music, comedy and philosophy from Tempchin.
Other compositions include:
  • "Someone That You Used to Know"
  • "White Shoes"
  • "Rollin'"
  • "To Feel That Way at All"
  • "Somebody Trying to Tell You Something"
  • "You Can Go Home"
  • "Your Tattoo"
  • "East of Eden"
  • "15 Days Under the Hood"
  • "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed"
  • "Swayin' to the Music "

    Discography

with The Funky Kings

  • 1976 ''The Funky Kings''

    Solo albums

  • 1978 Jack Tempchin
  • 1994 After the Rain
  • 1995 Lonely Midnight
  • 1997 Best of Jack Tempchin
  • 2000 Live on Hwy 101
  • 2004 Staying Home
  • 2007 Songs
  • 2012 Live at Tales from the Tavern
  • 2015 Learning to Dance
  • 2016 One More Song
  • 2017 Peaceful Easy Feeling – The Songs of Jack Tempchin
  • 2019 One More Time with Feeling
  • 2024 ''More Of Less''