Question: "Country Road" is a song written and performed by who, Randy Herman Meisner is an American former musician, singer and songwriter, later of The Eagles, also played bass on the album version?
Context: "Pictures of You" is the fourth and final single from the British rock band the Cure's 1989 album "Disintegration".  Called "chilly goth-rock" and "accessible...synth-pop", the song has a single version which is a shorter edit of the album version.  There are also two different remixes on two UK 12" singles, and other singles released around the world, one of which later appeared on "Mixed Up" as the Extended Dub Mix and differs significantly from the album version in arrangement in that incorporates wholly original drum and bass arrangements.  The other is an extended remix of the original album version which, at 7:59, runs slightly longer than the album version.  There is also an edit which was released on 12" in the US, titled "extended remix" as in the European and Australasian releases, but which runs for 6:40 rather than 7:59. Timothy Bruce Schmit (born October 30, 1947) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter.  He has performed as the bassist and vocalist for Poco and the Eagles, having replaced bassist and vocalist Randy Meisner in both cases.  Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist.  In 1998, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Eagles. "Country Road" is a song written and performed by James Taylor.  It appears on his 1970 second album, "Sweet Baby James".  The song references Somerset Street in Belmont, Massachusetts, a wooded road running adjacent to the land owned by McLean Hospital, where Taylor had committed himself in 1965 to receive treatment for depression.  "Country Road" reached number 37 on the Billboard pop singles chart in early 1971.  It is also featured on James Taylor's 1976 "Greatest Hits" record.  The song has been played at most of his concerts since 1970.  Randy Meisner, later of The Eagles, played bass on the album version. Gordon Copley, born in Pasadena, California, is a bassist who briefly played bass for Black Sabbath.  He played bass on the Black Sabbath song "No Stranger to Love" on their album "Seventh Star".  Bassist Dave Spitz played bass on the rest of the songs on the album.  Copley was also the bassist for Lita Ford's band in early 1985 and joined her on tour after featuring on Seventh Star, leaving Sabbath.  Copley would then later feature on Bill Ward's 1990 album . "One of These Nights" is a song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey and recorded by the American rock band Eagles.  The title track from their "One of These Nights" album, the song became their second single to top the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart after "Best of My Love" and also helped propel the album to number one.  The single version was shortened from the album version of the song, removing most of the song's intro and most of its fade-out, as well.  Henley is lead vocalist on the verses, while Randy Meisner sings high harmony (not lead) on the refrain.  The song features a guitar solo by Don Felder that is "composed of blues-based licks and sustained string bends using an unusually meaty distortion tone." "The Entertainer" is a single by singer Billy Joel released as the only single from his 1974 album "Streetlife Serenade".  The song peaked at #34 on the US charts, a Top 40 hit for Joel that year.  The song is a cynical and somewhat satirical look at the fleeting fame of a musician and fickle public tastes ("Today I am your champion / I may have won your hearts / But I know the game / You'll forget my name / And I won't be here / in another year / if I don't stay on the charts"); this theme would be examined in the later song "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me".  Another verse in the song references the shortening of Joel's song, "Piano Man", from 5 minutes and 38 seconds to 3 minutes and 5 seconds to fit a radio slot, referenced by the lyrics "It was a beautiful song, / but it ran too long / If you're gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit / So they cut it down to 3:05."  Additionally, the timing printed on the label of the 7" release of "The Entertainer" was 3:05, although the actual 45 length was 3:11 (while the album length was 3:41).  In the single version, Verse 3 (which starts at 1:02 in the album version) is edited out, and Verse 2 (which starts at 0:40) contains a steel guitar in its second half, which is actually featured in the second half of the "third" verse in the album version; indeed, on the single mix, the instrumental crescendo of the album version is anticipated by bringing the fuller instrumentation of Verse 3 under the vocals of Verse 2.  As a result of this, the slightly emptier original instrumentation of Verse 2 (which includes a downward slide on the synth) and the vocals of Verse 3 are completely omitted, while the instrumentation of Verse 3 (featuring the steel guitar) does appear, but earlier. Randy Herman Meisner (born March 8, 1946) is an American former musician, singer and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Eagles and Poco.  Throughout his professional musical career, Meisner's main role was that of bassist and backing high-harmony vocalist as both a group member and session musician.  He is best known for the Eagles hit song "Take It to the Limit", which he co-wrote and sang. Michael Sean Davenport (born 1968 in Orcutt, California) is an American musician.  Davenport was bass guitarist for The Ataris, joining the band in 1995 prior to the album "Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits" in which Davenport co-wrote the song "In Spite of the World".  He also played bass on the album "End Is Forever" and the EP "Look Forward to Failure" on Fat Wreck Chords.  After numerous recordings, tours, and a major label release with The Ataris, "So Long Astoria" in which he co-wrote the song "The Hero Dies in this One" Davenport played bass on "Live at the Metro".  In 2004 Davenport left the band after the Ataris headed in a different musical direction.  In 2005 Davenport appeared in the documentary movie Punks Not Dead www.punksnotdeadthemovie.com "Punk's Not Dead." Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers (born 19 May 1938) is an English musician specialising in electric bass, double bass and tuba.  He is noted as a member of Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky and as one of Britain's best-known session bass players, having contributed to recordings by Elton John ("Tumbleweed Connection", "Madman Across the Water"), David Bowie ("Space Oddity", "Diamond Dogs"), Lou Reed ("Transformer", including the prominent bass line of "Walk on the Wild Side"), Melanie ("Candles in the Rain"), Roy Harper ("Bullinamingvase"), David Essex ("Rock On"), Allan Clarke, Al Kooper ("New York City (You're a Woman)"), Bryan Ferry ("The Bride Stripped Bare"), Harry Nilsson ("Nilsson Schmilsson", "Son of Dracula"), Cat Stevens ("New Masters", "Foreigner"), Serge Gainsbourg ("Histoire de Melody Nelson"), Paul McCartney ("Give My Regards to Broad Street"), George Harrison ("Somewhere in England", "Gone Troppo", "Brainwashed") and Ringo Starr ("Stop and Smell the Roses").  He also played bass on "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds".  By the end of the 1970s, Flowers had played bass on an estimated 500 hit recordings. "New Kid in Town" is a song by the Eagles from their 1976 studio album "Hotel California".  It was written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther.  Released as the first single from the album, the song became a number-one hit in the US, and number 20 in the UK.  The single version has an earlier fade-out than the album version.  The song features Glenn Frey singing the lead vocals, with Don Henley singing main harmony vocals.  Randy Meisner plays the guitarrón mexicano, Don Felder plays electric guitars, and Joe Walsh plays the electric piano and organ parts.  The song won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices.
Answer: James Taylor