America – History-America's Greatest Hits (CD)

Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell wrote some of the early '70s most enduring folk-rock melodies before either of them turned 21, crafting a sound that owed as much to Neil Young and CSNY as it did to their upbringing on U.S. air bases in England. Their acoustic-driven harmonies landed them in heavy rotation alongside the Laurel Canyon crowd without them ever really belonging to it, which gives this collection a quietly distinctive character that holds up decades later.