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Heritage: Home Recordings/Demos 1970-1973

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Liner Note Author: Dewey Bunnell. Photographer: Greg Allen . When America started out in 1970, the band's trio of singer/songwriters -- Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek -- were still teenagers, England-based Air Force brats and Neil Young fanatics blessed with a surfeit of creative ideas they scrambled to record on an almost daily basis. It was out of those exuberant early days that hits like the breezy "Ventura Highway" and "A Horse with No Name" (included here in a cappella form as a hidden bonus track) were born, launching the band to almost immediate icon status. The 2017 anthology Heritage: Home Recordings/Demos 1970-1973 documents those heady sessions when the band was working out its evocative folk-rock sound. These are raw demos of songs (some not yet complete) recorded for and during the release of the band's first three albums, 1971's America, 1972's Homecoming, and 1973's Hat Trick. Some, like 1970's "Riverside," are essentially finished pieces, and sound not too dissimilar to what made it onto the finished albums. In contrast, a track like 1972's "Wind Wave" finds the trio laying down a live, drummer-less, acoustic guitar and vocal-based rendition of the song. Unadorned by a full backing band and minus any studio sheen, one can fully imbibe just how much Crosby, Stills & Nash, and especially Young, influenced America. There are also tantalizing song fragments that never made it onto an album, like Beckley's sweetly attenuated multi-tracked harmonies on "When I Was Five." Particularly magical is the crisp early take on "Ventura Highway," bookended with studio chatter during which someone (Bunnell?) offers the understated assessment, "I think that one was better." Similarly engaging are the band's nascent readings of such well-loved songs as "Here," "Monster," and "Goodbye." ~ Matt Collar

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    1. 1.
      Riverside
    2. 2.
      Here - (previously unreleased)
    3. 3.
      James Holladay
    4. 4.
      How Long - (previously unreleased)
    5. 5.
      Sea of Destiny - (previously unreleased)
    6. 6.
      Rainy Day - (remix, alternate take)
    7. 7.
      Satan (Donkey Jaw)
    8. 8.
      When I Was Five - (previously unreleased)
    9. 9.
      Mitchum Junction
    10. 10.
      Goodbye - (previously unreleased)
    11. 11.
      Wind Wave - (previously unreleased)
    12. 12.
      Ventura Highway - (previously unreleased, take)
    13. 13.
      Man of Pride - (previously unreleased)
    14. 14.
      Rainbow Song
    15. 15.
      Monster - (previously unreleased)
    16. 16.
      Horse with No Name [A Cappella][Bonus Hidden Track], A

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アーティスト: America

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70年代に数々の大ヒットを放った不滅のハーモニーを響かせるAMERICA(アメリカ)。年月を経てもなお変わらぬ輝きを放つ彼らのサウンドの原点を聴かせてくれる、貴重な音源集が登場! バンド結成初期のデモ音源や未発表音源をコンパイルした、まるでパーソナルなポートレイトのような作品。
発売・販売元 提供資料(2017/11/10)

フォーマット CDアルバム
発売日 2017年12月08日
国内/輸入 輸入(ヨーロッパ盤)
レーベルOmnivore/ADA
構成数 1
パッケージ仕様 -
規格品番 1665101311
SKU 816651013111

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