Eagles are an American rock music group that was formed in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. Their early music was a hybrid of country and bluegrass instrumentation grafted onto the harmonies of California surfer rock, producing tender ballads and soft top-down country-flavored pop-rock about relationships, cars, and the wandering life. On later albums the band dispensed with bluegrass instrumentation and gravitated to a more straight-ahead rock.