Most people who know me know that I love anything loud and heavy, be it metal, punk or anything to that effect. But what surprises people is when I tell them I LOVE America and their easygoing lite rock. \u201cA Horse With No Name\u201d is one of the first songs I can remember falling on love with that wasn\u2019t on MTV. When their second album was released in 1972, critics at the time said it was a lot of the same old thing that had been present on their debut \u2013 but not so fast!<\/p>\n
Recently reissued with super deluxe audio, the album is in need of rediscovery. Sure, everyone knows \u201cVentura Highway\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Cross The River\u201d because they were the album\u2019s biggest hits. But there are a couple of deep cuts that deserve the same type of recognition.<\/p>\n
One of America\u2019s greatest strengths was the three part harmonies that the guys would use as background vocals. Not since the Beach Boys and the Mamas And The Papas had background vocals sounded so sweet. Dewey Bunnell\u2019s beautiful \u201cMoon Song\u201d is an outstanding piece of work, beautiful harmonies and all. The great picking at the end of the song really does still sound amazing, even 40+ years later. The pristine audio on these releases really helps bring everything to the fore.<\/p>\n
\u201cTill The Sun Comes Up Again\u201d is another great example where the superior sound quality really helps push the song to new heights, particularly during the middle where the guitars really sound like you\u2019re right next to them. While certain songs like \u201cCornwall Blank\u201d don\u2019t work as well as they could, songs like this are overshadowed by amazing tracks like \u201cMoon Song.\u201d But this was a building album for them, one where they were still getting their feet wet before embarking on some of the biggest records of their career.<\/p>\n
With the latest release, Audio Fidelity is really showing what they\u2019re capable of with \u201870s easy listening. An interesting challenge for their next couple of releases would be to see what they can do with bands like Def Leppard or even Motorhead. All in all, this is another great release by a label who knows what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":32358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5944],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-44112","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-america","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44112"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44112"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}