View From The Ground/Your Move

Performer: America
Engineer: Mike Fuller; Mark Linett; Ian Grimble; Andrew Thompson; Jeremy Smith; Dennis Hetzendorfer; Wally Traugott; David Cole; Michael Verdick; Chuck Kirkpatrick; Danny Dawson; Patrice Carroll
Producer: Russ Ballard; Bobby Colomby; Dewey Bunnell; Gerry Beckley
Distributor: Infinity Entertainment Gr

Notes: America: Gerry Beckley (vocals, guitars, keyboards, background vocals); Dewey Bunnell (vocals, guitars, background vocals). Additional personnel: Russ Ballard (vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar, percussion); Michael Mirage, Rick Neigher (vocals, guitars); Chris Cote (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); Christopher Cross, Chuck Kirkpatrick, Sara Taylor, Timothy B. Schmit, Tom Kelly , Carl Wilson (vocals); Dean Parks, Hadley Hockensmith, Michael Woods, Steve Lukather, Bill Mumy (guitars); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (strings); Raphael Ravenscroft (saxophone); Jai Winding (keyboards, synthesizer); Mark Isham (synthesizer); Brad Pallmer, Mike Porcaro (bass guitar); Alvin Taylor, Jeff Porcaro, Willie Leacox (drums); Stephen Bishop (background vocals). By the time these two albums came out in the 1980s, America's sound had changed a lot from the simple country-rock of their first hits. Their '80s work was slicker, poppier, and more in line with the easy-listening (or "yacht rock") of the day. Still, the hooky songwriting and beautiful harmonies of the earlier days was in effect on these two albums, which charted respectably at the time. Available together on this 2007 reissue, VIEW FROM THE GROUND and YOUR MOVE make for relaxing listening, and are a must for any America completist.

The first half of the 1970s was the heyday of introspective songwriting and close-harmony singing. The band America was at the forefront of the commercial end of this movement, releasing a string of singles that dominated the radio for years. Following their debut smash, "Horse With No Name," a Neil Young-derived, hallucinatory song-story, America scored again and again with singles and a series of records whose titles for some reason all began with the letter "H." Despite the group's indelible association with soft rock, America's understated pop found an unlikely new legion of fans in the '00s indie world.

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