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Title: Beckley at his best
Review: I have listened to this for a few months now, and I've added it to my permanent playlist.The overall feel of the music and the quality of the songs is very high.Beckley at his best ("Clarice", "Here", "Till The Sun Comes Up Again") establishes a reflective, dreamy, and somewhat melancholy mood, and that is the case here. Instrumentation is perhaps a bit more spare than on his America songs, but he uses horns in some songs to nice effect. The beginning and end of "Somewhere, Somehow" reminds me of Bacharach. "Here and Now", "Warm Gone Gray", "I'll Be Gone", "Arms" are quite lovely, deceptively simple love songs. "Crying" and "Saturday Sky" are uptempo pop songs.Being Beckley, the songs are all quite melodic, and for the most part avoids the occasional "icky sweet" lyricism of his lesser songs. Considering how far past 1972 (and the debut America album) Beckley is, this is a surprisingly beautiful, and welcome song cycle.
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