![]() The album was released in 1979 and was a hit on contemporary Christian music radio stations. The last thing I am is bored.All Things Are Possible is the solo debut album by Dan Peek after his departure from the popular soft rock band America. And I always get stage fright to some degree. There’s always some element of a show that makes it different, whether it’s the venue, the hall, the way you’re feeling that day. But as he grows older, he said touring does not. It was an attention-grabber of a name.”īunnell turned 70 in January. “If (the band) Chicago can call itself a city, we can call ourselves a country. “We would spend a lot of time in the base cafeteria listening to this jukebox, which was called an ‘Americana.’ And then when we started taking these songs we’d written around to various people in London, they would refer to us as ‘those American guys.’ So, it all came together and America grew out of that. “We were these expatriates or whatever you want to call it,” said Bunnell. So how did the band end up deciding to make the bold decision to go with the name America? We were doing a lot of cover songs until we started writing our own stuff and that’s really when it kicked into gear.” “We were 17, 18, 19 years old and we were loving this stuff. “We did a lot of rehearsing at our parents’ homes and then I got a car, and we would sing in that car with one acoustic guitar and we just couldn’t stop,” he said. Bunnell said the band members worked at their craft. The harmonies were magic but they didn’t magically happen. In the band’s formative years, it became known for what New York Times writer Margalit Fox once described as “its lush, melodic folk-rock sound and tight vocal harmonies.” “Every voice is like a fingerprint and so it’s really a special thing when you get a number of voices blending into that other sound.”Īmerica’s songs are conducive to vocal harmonies. They’re a magical thing because those voices blend into this one unique thing. But it was a great time to be these American teenagers knocking around swinging London in the swinging ‘60s, seeing all this great music.”īunnell said, from the beginning, the three were influenced by vocal harmony bands going back to The Everly Brothers, the Beach Boys, The Beatles, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Gerry and I both have British mothers (they’ve both passed away). “Our dads were all in the Air Force, stationed over there in London. “It was a real special time for us as young teenagers,” he said. In an interview with the Tribune-Review, Bunnell explained that in 1970 – when America officially embarked on a recording career that continues to this day – his father was in the U.S. It’s been slowed somewhat by the pandemic, which has caused America to cancel and postpone shows as other entertainment acts have.īut the band has finally made it back to the area and is scheduled to play The Palace Theatre in Greensburg on Friday at 7:30 p.m. While it’s been more than 50 years since the group had their breakthrough single, they are still on their 50th-anniversary tour. Though the three core members, singer/songwriters Dewey Bunnell, Gerry Beckley and Dan Peek (who died in 2011), are Americans, they might never have met if they all hadn’t attended London Central High School at the same time. So what does England have to do with the creation of a band called America? I’m talking about America the folk-rock group, the band that produced hit songs like “Ventura Highway,” “I Need You,” “Tin Man” and of course “A Horse With No Name,” which went to number one on the U.S. We can be thankful to England for a lot of things, especially for America.
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