Originally Posted by
Jonny Come Lately
The way I see it How Long is one of those songs that today, or back in 2007, could definitely be seen as a country song, but in the 1970s it would have been considered a rock song. I personally think it's less traditionally country than virtually everything on Cass County, for instance. I tend to think of it as a rocker myself, although I listen to classic rock more than I do modern country. Personally, I think what has happened is that the genre boundaries have shifted in the intervening period - country has claimed sounds that used to belong to the rock genre (and elsewhere I believe there is music that is often seen as rock now that would have been considered pop had it been around in the 1970s), and the Eagles, with their influence on numerous country artists, were a very important part of that.