.americaband is celebrating its 50th anniversary in a number of ways this year -- including going all the way back to the beginning, at least in the recording studio, for the upcoming 'Half Century' box set.
America is celebrating its 50th anniversary in a number of ways this year -- including going all the way back to the beginning, at least in the recording studio, for the upcomingThe eight-disc affair kicks off with the unreleased"Children" -- premiering below -- one of the first songs Dewey Bunnell reckons he ever wrote and part of a 1970 session in London for famed British song publisher Dick James.
"Y'know, it feels like anywhere between 50 minutes and 500 years," Bunnell notes with a chuckle."It's an odd feeling -- like it was yesterday we were these teenagers in England knocking around and writing our own music. I have a crystal-clear memory of that. But then there's big chunks of this career that are like,' Where did that all go?!' But I feel grateful it's gone as well as it has.
"Well" is, of course an understatement. After its first single,"A Horse With No Name," hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972, the group won the best new artist Grammy, scored seven top 10 hits on the Hot 100 and five top 10 albums on the Billboard 200."Obviously there's nothing wrong with having hits out of the chute like we did," Beckley notes,"but I think we've kind of justified that early .
America's anniversary celebration is, of course, being done from quarantine at the moment. Live shows have been suspended, while Beckley spent a couple of weeks quarantined in Australia, where his wife is from. After shutting down in mid-March, Bunnell notes that it's the longest the group has spent off the road, possibly ever, and the duo is, like everyone else, itching to get back at it.
"We can't wait to play," Bunnell says,"but we're really the last business to potentially go back to normal, besides sports and theater and places that require people to cram into venues, shoulder to shoulder. It's not realistic to think we're going to do that soon, but we're just hanging on for the miracle, as everybody would hope for, grasping at straws. Whenever it happens, we know we might be looking at an audience wearing masks. That'll be...different.
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