Comments for America, Homecoming

Till The Sun Comes Up Again is just a GREAT song.....

No sophomore slump here. A lot of these songs would have fit in on the first album, especially "Cornwall Blank." But they expanded their sound here, with lighter, more fun songs like "Head and Heart" and "Ventura Highway." "To Each His Own" is one of the best examples of America tracks that shoulda' been big hits. Another classic album.

Another great album! Classic rock at its best!

The best America album ever; 25 years later and the guitars on Ventura Highway and Don't Cross the River still send shivers up my spine. There's a lot of attention to detail, a lot of layering in the instrumentation, and beautiful melodies and rich harmonies. Both sides are equally as strong, even the cover of "Head and Heart," with its tag-team vocals and cheesy electric piano. Buy this record.

The guitar's solo on Moon Song is really wonderful!!

It would be "unamerican" not to like this album. The acoustic guitar work & harmonies are wonderful. It's almost impossible to pick a favorite here, Ventura Highway speaks for itself, To Each HIs Own & Head and Heart are classics. This album is a treasure, they didn't skip a beat after the incredible 1st album.

Homecoming just barely edges out the debut album for the best America album ever. The acoustic guitar work is superb, especially on Moon Song, where the ending guitar solo is awesome. I wish they would revert more to the acoustic sound; it seems America headed down a different path starting with Hideaway. However, as a huge America fan going on 25 years, I appreciate whatever they do.

I consider this album one of the most essential albums in my large collection. If anyone else knows of any albums that compare in style with this and the first album PLEASE inform me what they are. I love America, but I sure wish they hadn't of changed from this style. I'm biased I know, but this album belongs in EVERY classic/folk rock collection!

This is an essential LP, I agree, but I don't think it stands with their finest work (I rate the debut LP and Hat Trick as better folk-rock records. That said, there are still moment on the "Homecoming" disc that can raise the hair on the back of my neck as if I'm hearing it for the first time. A case in point is "Saturn Nights" with that yearning lyric "Made a sign above the dorrway, to show I care" and those ethereal harmonies. "I love the mood of "Till the Sun Comes Up Again," the drive of "Don't Cross the River" and, of course, the single "Ventura Highway." Virtually everything on the record is nice, but somehow the whole of it leaves me vaguely unsatisfied. I don't think the playing time is very substantial and in spots it feels a little lightweight. "Only in Your Heart" is Gerry exporing his McCartney muse and, although I like "Cornwall Blank" and "Moonsong," I felt Deway more engagingly mined the same vein with the next LP's "Wind Wave" and "Rainbow Song." In the overview, a strong but seemingly rushed follow-up to the debut monster. These days, when I get it out and play it, I tend to program the CD player so as to hear all of side one and selected tunes from side two, typically culminating with that gorgeous "Saturn Nights." For my money, though, the real keeper on this one was "To Each His Own," which caputured the same precocious profundity as some of the lyrics on the first LP. I mean, I know it's a tune written by an Air Force brat feeling melancholy about the constant human grind of relocate-forge friendships-relocate-forge new friendships. But it ends up being a tune that I think anyone who has lived can relate to.

Another fantastic album! Diffrent from the first in that it explores other instruments, the first step in the evolution that would become Hat Trick. The only knock is it is to short. But every track has a depth, mood & feel to it. From the melecholy of To Each His Own, to the blistering acustic jam on Moon Song, & the killer elctric work on Cornwall Blank (crossing over from left to right)And the wounderfully shared vocals on Head & Heart. Fantastic.

Their best non-collection album.

I have worn thru 3-4 LP's and probobly the same as many in CDformat , This album has some incredible Guitar & Vocals and the fact that Hal Blaine was the session drummer for this album only helped to bring this more to life. Dan Peeks lead riffs on Moon Song and California Revisited are flawless in playing America has not been America since Dan left.They're are some great songs that Gerry & Dewey do but without Dan its just not America.The firsy 3 America albums are theBenchmark of what Acoustic Rock should sound like and be a pre-requesit listening for anyone learning Guitar.