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Description
Gerald Linford Beckley (born September 12, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter and musician, and a founding member of the band America. Beckley was born to an American father and an English mother. He began playing the piano at the age of three and the guitar a few years later. By 1962, Beckley was playing guitar in The Vanguards, an instrumental surf music band in Virginia. He spent every summer in England and soon discovered 'British invasion' music. This solo album was first released in 2006, and Albert J Mora writes: "There is an imaginary scale of perfect music from pure artistic to pure commercial, where everything is genius. On the extreme left there is perfect pure art. Think Beethoven. In the middle there is a perfect balance between pure art and pure commercialism. Think The Beatles. On the extreme right there is perfect pure commercialism. Think Madonna. Gerry Beckley's Horizontal Fall CD is on this Genius scale. It is just to the left of the Beatles. That is, it leans more toward being pure art than toward being commercial. It is creative. It is thoughtful. It is simple. It is light. It is dark. It is haunting. Above all, it is beautiful. If this CD were not in English, it would remain fascinating to English-speaking listeners. If it had no vocals, it would remain beautiful as a pure instrumental album. The lyrics by themselves are magnificent poems. For connoisseurs, the production quality of the CD is fantastic - no shortcuts. It will bring out the best in the finest sound systems or studio headphones. As a result, this is a CD you can listen to seemingly endless times and derive something new every time. Buy it for someone who loves permanent, thoughtful things over fleeting, trivial things. Someone smart." -
Tracklisting
- 1. 3 A.M.
- 10. Keeping the Light On
- 11. Farmer Is the Man
- 12. Love & Leaving
- 13. Arms
- 14. 3 A.M. (Reprise)
- 15. Somewhere Somehow
- 16. Fireman (Early Demo) â Bonus Track
- 17. Cryinâ (Acoustic Remix) â Bonus Track
- 2. Crying
- 3. Here & Now
- 4. Saturday Sky
- 5. Lazarus
- 6. Warm Gone Gray
- 7. I'll Be Gone
- 8. Fireman
- 9. With Me Always
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