Posted On: Friday - January 24th 2020 10:48PM MST
In Topics: Music
... if you can't swim the tide.
America in this post is the 3-man 1970s folk-rock band. Most of what I know from the band is from their excellent History: America's Greatest Hits album with not a bad song on it*. The band consisted of 3 "army brats", sons of Air Force members, and they met in London as their Dads were stationed there.
Don't Cross the River is not one of their multiple hit songs that are on that Greatest Hits album, but it is my favorite. I just learned it was originally off the band's 1972 Homecoming album. That was 48 years ago!!
America was:
Gerry Beckley – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass, harmonica
Dewey Bunnell – lead and backing vocals, guitars, percussion
Dan Peek – lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, harmonica
but, it's a guy named Henry Diltz who played the banjo in this song.
Dan Peek died in 2011.
* ... though, if you don't like sap, you kinda have to skip Muskrat Love, a few years later made popular by The Captain and Tennille.
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