The self-tilted Gerry Beckley is the America co-founder’s tenth solo album. Beckley plays the bulk of the instruments on the album but gets help from a core group of players that includes former Chicago bassist Jason Scheff, guitarist Steve Fekete, drummers Brian Young and Ryland Steen along with backing vocalist Brian Eichenberger. Nick Lane and Matt Combs, also longtime musical fellow travelers, arranged horn and string parts, respectively.
Beckley is, of course, an upper-echelon singer, songwriter, composing artist and producer. That just comes from his many years of uninterrupted musicmaking, starting during the late 60s when he, Dewey Bunnell and the late Dan Peek formed America, riding into the pop charts during 1972 on "A Horse With No Name" as well as "I Need You" and registering 11 Top 40 singles, and a four-times platinum greatest hits set.
Gerry Beckley the album contains 12 outstanding tracks including first single “Crazy,” the most self professed auto-biographical song in “Well Worn Shoes,” and the soulful “Red and Blue” which leaves no mystery as to its subject matter. Produced, arranged, engineered and mixed all by Gerry along with his good buddy Jeff Larson.