Title: Focus on the Early Albums
Product review: A wonderful box set, no doubt - and high time for this honor. The booklet gives detailed on band members and the individual recordings, and AMERICA's music has been shining for 30 years now.If there's one thing that could have been improved with this collection it's that - in my opinion - later efforts by Gerry & Dewey (who have been a duo for 23 years already!) like material from "Hourglass" or "Human Nature" are almost forgotten, while this box set's focus is especially on the first three albums from 1972-74.The usual "unreleased" tracks are pasted to the end of disc three (why? everything else is arranged in strictly chronological order) and sound so much like "demos" that they should have been left off this set altogether. There would have been more room for recent stuff or some of Gerry's solo work.Otherwise - you'll get a lot of good music for your money. And make sure to go out and see AMERICA on tour one of these days, they're still brilliant.
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