Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Horse With No Name, A
2. I Need You
3. Sandman
4. Ventura Highway
5. Don't Cross the River
6. Only in Your Heart
7. Muskrat Love
8. Tin Man
9. Lonely People
10. Sister Golden Hair
11. Daisy Jane
12. Woman Tonight
| | Details | | Playing time: | 39 min. | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
| | Album notes | America: Gerry Beckley (vocals, piano, bass); Dewey Bunnell (vocals, 6-string guitar); Dan Peek (vocals, 12-string guitar).
Additional personnel: Henry Diltz (banjo); Joe Osborne, David Dickey (bass); Kim Haworth, Ray Cooper, Dave Atwood, Hal Blaine, Willie Leacox (drums, percussion); Chester McCracken (congas); Venetta Fields, Clydie King, Jessica Smith (background vocals).
Producers: Ian Samwell, Jeff Dexter, America.
Compilation producer: George Martin.
Engineers include: Robin Black, Ken Scott, Geoff Emerick.
To their detractors, they were Crosby, Still, Nash and Young Lite, but nonetheless, this premature career retrospective of soft-rock icons America holds up extremely well against most pop records of the early to mid-'70s. In part, that's due to ex-Beatles producer George Martin, whose considerable studio expertise nudged country-ish tunes like "Sister Golden Hair" as close to power pop as they were feasibly going to get. But the fact is that America had a genuine knack for crafting catchy, radio-ready singles, and this album offers just about all of them, including the Neil Young-esque "Horse With No Name," and the genuinely lovely "Ventura Highway."
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