AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
Gary McFarland - Skye SK-8 Side A 1st movement - On This Site Shall Be Erected 2nd movement - 80 Miles An Hour Through Beer-Can Country 3rd movement - Suburbia - Two Poodles And A Plastic Jesus Side B 1st movement - If I’m Elected 2nd movement - Last Rites For the Promised Land
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
GRAY McFARLAND
Gary McFarland - Skye SK-8 Side A
1st movement - On This Site Shall Be Erected
2nd movement - 80 Miles An Hour
Through Beer-Can Country
3rd movement - Suburbia - Two
Poodles And A Plastic Jesus Side B
1st movement - If I’m Elected 2nd movement - Last Rites For the Promised Land
3rd movement - Due To A Lack of Interest, Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled
Composed and Conducted by Gary McFarland with a personnel much too numerous to list, playing trumpets, trombone, tuba, french horns, reeds, cellos, viola, violins, piano, guitar, drums, and percussion.
I first received this record about two months ago, listened to it a few times, wrote a lukewarm review of it and gave it to Creem. Fortunately, the review got lost somewhere and was never published. I say fortunately because after many listenings I have found some moments of great beauty on this record, moments I wasn’t open to when I first listened to it (so many changes, man, all the time -but that’s the way it’s supposed to be).