The self-tilted Gerry Beckley is the America co-founder’s tenth solo album.Beckley plays the bulk of the instruments on the album but gets help from a core group of players that includes former Chicago bassist Jason Scheff, guitarist Steve Fekete, drummers Brian Young and Ryland Steen along with backing vocalist Brian Eichenberger. Nick Lane and Matt Combs, also longtime musical fellow travelers, arranged horn and string parts, respectively.
Beckley is, of course, an upper-echelon singer, songwriter, composing artist and producer. That just comes from his many years of uninterrupted music-making, starting during the late 60s when he, Dewey Bunnell and the late Dan Peek formed America, riding into the pop charts during 1972 on "A Horse With No Name" as well as "I Need You" and registering 11 Top 40 singles, and a four-times platinum greatest hits set.
The self-tilted Gerry Beckley is the America co-founder's tenth solo album. Beckley plays the bulk of the instruments on the album but gets help from a core group of players that includes former Chicago bassist Jason Scheff, guitarist Steve Fekete, drummers Brian Young and Ryland Steen along with backing vocalist Brian Eichenberger. Nick Lane and Matt Combs, also longtime musical fellow travelers, arranged horn and string parts, respectively.