{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Mornings With Gary Byron Podcast","title":"Mornings With Gary Byron Podcast Gerry Beckley","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":779,"description":"GERRY BECKLEY  -  Biography\n“Like trains forever leaving stations, merciful are these stories we spin,” sings Gerry Beckley on the title track to his latest\nBlue Elan Records solo album, Merciful, a dark-laced song penned by noted Scandinavian jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær\non his otherwise instrumental 2000 “Nordic noir” release Solid Ether.\nThat sentiment captures the elegiac spirit of the 13-song collection, produced by Beckley with frequent collaborator and\nlyricist Jeff Larson, which looks both back and forward with an appreciation of the past and an acknowledgement of\nimpending mortality.\n“For the last few years, we’ve been going back through the archives to see if there were songs that could be improved,”\nexplained Gerry. “These days, since I’ve stepped back from touring, I’ve been coming up with lots of new material.”\nBeckley is the co-founding member of the multi-platinum band America with Dewey Bunnell and the late Dan Peek, who all\nmet as students at London Central High School, and went on to score such hits as “A Horse with No Name,” “Ventura\nHighway,” “Tin Man” and “Lonely People.” Beckley wrote and sang lead on such successful America singles as “Sister\nGolden Hair,” “I Need You,” “Daisy Jane” and the Russ Ballard-penned “You Can Do Magic.”\nThe very first track, the Beckley-Larson co-written “When the Wells Run Dry” touches on the impermanence of life with a\nnod towards not just an individual human’s waning passion and inspiration, but the environmental hazards of the earth itself.\n“When the walls come down/What is lost and founder/Underneath the California sky,” laments Beckley.\nPage 3 of 3\n“I consider that mix of light and dark my signature sound,” he noted. “So much of rock is based on youth and rebellion, but\nas songwriters, we get to move those boundaries around as we age.”\nDividing his time between Sydney, Australia and L.A.’s oceanside Venice, Beckley recorded the bulk of the album in his\nown home studios, playing virtually all the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HBTLfNupkDo1Pm73iJC5OtiQQqmI1wc0-6O84Wf1rwQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81ZDYx/YjRmYTgzYzBhYTIy/NTc5MTY2ZDY5YmU4/N2YzOC5KUEc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}