Hearts & Flowers was a Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 folk-rock club band, perhaps most significant as one of the groups that launched the career of Eagles' founding member and guitarist

Guitarist

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-songwriter

Songwriter

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, Bernie Leadon

Bernie Leadon

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. The lineup included Larry Murray (vocals, guitar

Guitar

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), Dave Dawson (vocals, guitar, autoharp

Autoharp

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) and Rick Cunha (vocals, guitar). Leadon replaced Cunha on their second album in 1968. Among venues they played during the mid-1960s, were Los Angeles clubs Ledbetter's, Doug Weston's Troubadour, and the Ashgrove

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. After recording two albums without major success, the group disbanded in 1968.