Description: GERRY BECKLEY Keeping The Lights On – The Best of Gerry Beckley hails from 2021 and is a shrink wrapped Clear Vinyl 2LP (opened solely to verify color of the vinyl). For its 20 varied and richly melodic selections, Keeping the Light On draws from Beckley’s solo albums including 1995’s Van Go Gan, 2006’s Horizontal Fall, 2009’s Happy Hour, 2011’s Unfortunate Casino, 2016’s Carousel, and 2019’s Five Mile Road. The tracks feature his collaborations with such treasured musical partners as Robert Lamm, Hank Linderman, Jeff Larson, Bill Mumy, Jeffrey Foskett, and the late Carl Wilson.Five previously unreleased tracks round out the set including “Norman” (performed live by Gerry and Dewey in the 1970s but never released by Gerry in a studio version until now), “(I’m Your) Heart Slave,” “Calling You” from the film Bagdad Café, “Self Image,” and “How Can I Turn You Away.” Beckley comments in the press release, “Yeah, I’m pretty prolific, but I like to preface this with the fact I come from the school of songwriting where you need to write 10 to come up with two that are keepers. That doesn’t mean the other eight are crap, either. But you end up with an abundance of material, and you want to have a home for it.”While listeners will undoubtedly detect echoes of classic Beckley compositions such as “I Need You,” “Daisy Jane,” and “Only in Your Heart,” the sounds of his solo albums are diverse and all-encompassing. “It’s a challenge because if you’re going to sing all the songs, you want to try to put variety in there,” he notes. “Obviously one of the great things about America is the combined strength; Dewey (Bunnell) is a fantastic partner and a great writer and singer and we really complement each other. So, when I do something on my own it’s not as simple as, ‘Now here’s a Dewey song, here’s a Gerry song…’ Fortunately there are a lot of different kinds of ‘Gerry so 3amCryingEmmaWatching The TimeCalling YouSelf ImageNow SueGoodbye HighwayNormanAlwaysHang Your Head High(I’m Your) Heart SlaveLife LessonsOnce A Distant HeartTokyoCup Of RainHow Can I Turn You AwayCallingHome Again Keeping The Light On
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Artist: Beckley, Gerry
Type: Double LP
Format: Record
Record Label: Blue Elan Records
Release Year: 2021
Release Title: Keeping the Light On-The Best of Gerry Beckley
Color: Clear
Record Size: 12"
Features: Colored Vinyl, Sealed
Genre: Rock
Edition: Best Of