Homecoming (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Homecoming
Type = Album
Artist = America


Released = November 15 1972
Recorded = 1972
Genre = Folk rock, pop rock, blues rock, progressive rock
Length = 33:06
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = America
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1e881v7jzzxa~T1 link] |
Last album = "America"
(1971)
This album = "Homecoming"
(1972)
Next album = "Hat Trick"
(1973)

"Homecoming" is a 1972 (see 1972 in music) album by America. Acoustic guitar-based, with a more pronounced electric guitar and keyboard section than previous releases, "Homecoming" helped launch the career of America, and includes one of their best known hits, "Ventura Highway".

"Homecoming" peaked at #9 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart and was certified PLATINUM by the RIAA. It produced three hit singles: "Ventura Highway" which peaked at number 8 on the Billboard singles chart and number 3 on the Adult Contemporary chart; "Don't Cross the River" which hit 35 on Billboard and 23 on the Adult Contemporary chart; and "Only in Your Heart" peaked 62 on Billboard's Pop singles chart. Several other songs received radio airplay on FM stations playing album tracks including "To Each His Own", "California Revisited", and "Cornwall Blank".

Track listing

# "Ventura Highway" - (Dewey Bunnell) 3:32
# "To Each His Own" - (Gerry Beckley) 3:13
# "Don't Cross the River" - (Dan Peek) 2:30
# "Moon Song" - (Bunnell) 3:41
# "Only in Your Heart" - (Beckley) 3:16
# "Till the Sun Comes Up Again" - (Beckley) 2:12
# "Cornwall Blank - (Bunnell) 4:19
# "Head and Heart" - (John Martyn) 3:49
# "California Revisited" - (Peek) 3:03
# "Saturn Nights" - (Peek) 3:31

Personnel

*America - Guitar, Piano, Producer
*Dan Peek - Guitar, Piano, Vocals
*Hal Blaine - Percussion, Drums
*Gerry Beckley - Bass, Guitar, Piano, Vocals (tracks 6 & 8)
*Dewey Bunnell - Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Drums, Vocals (track 8)
*Gary Mallaber - Percussion, Drums (track 6)
*Gary Burden - Art Direction, Design
*Henry Diltz - Banjo, Photography
*Bill Halverson - Engineer
*Lee Herschberg - Mastering
*Chuck Leary - Assistant Engineer
*Joe Osborn - Bass
*Mike "Clay" Stone - Engineer