[6] New guitarist Don Felder played a Les Paul Special and provided the song's solo lick.

[7][8] "Already Gone" is the opening track of the Eagles' album On the Border, which was released by Asylum Records on March 22, 1974.

[11][12] Cash Box said that this was the Eagles' "best single release to date" calling it a "hard rocker driven by the group's incredible harmonies.

"[13] Record World said that "one particular loneliness analogy here warrants repeating: 'And you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself,'" and said that the song was "the act's best since 'Take It Easy.

[15] In his book To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles, Marc Eliot wrote that the song "was an out-and-out rocker ... Musically it sounded like a fuel-injected rave-up, with melodic echoes of both 'Peaceful Easy Feeling' and 'Take It Easy.