Mornings With Gary Byron Podcast Gerry Beckley

GERRY BECKLEY  -  Biography

“Like trains forever leaving stations, merciful are these stories we spin,” sings Gerry Beckley on the title track to his latest

Blue Elan Records solo album, Merciful, a dark-laced song penned by noted Scandinavian jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær

on his otherwise instrumental 2000 “Nordic noir” release Solid Ether.

That sentiment captures the elegiac spirit of the 13-song collection, produced by Beckley with frequent collaborator and

lyricist Jeff Larson, which looks both back and forward with an appreciation of the past and an acknowledgement of

impending mortality.

“For the last few years, we’ve been going back through the archives to see if there were songs that could be improved,”

explained Gerry. “These days, since I’ve stepped back from touring, I’ve been coming up with lots of new material.”

Beckley is the co-founding member of the multi-platinum band America with Dewey Bunnell and the late Dan Peek, who all

met as students at London Central High School, and went on to score such hits as “A Horse with No Name,” “Ventura

Highway,” “Tin Man” and “Lonely People.” Beckley wrote and sang lead on such successful America singles as “Sister