Grammy Award Winning Rock Legends America To Release Brand New Double CD on Burgundy Records

Grammy Award Winning Rock Legends America To Release Brand New Double CD on Burgundy Records

Album To Be Produced By Adam Schlesinger and James Iha Will Include Guest Performances From Nada Surf and Others

Available in Stores and Online in September

NEW YORK, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The legendary rock group America returns to the studio for their first new major label studio album in over twenty years. Founding members, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, have teamed up with indie rock's most sought after producers Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne, "That Thing You Do!") and James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins) to record an album of brand new songs, written by the band as well as by some of today's most influential new writers and artists including Schlesinger, Iha, Ira Elliot of Nada Surf and others.

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"James and I are honored to be working with Gerry and Dewey. They write timeless songs and they are phenomenal singers and musicians, and we are having a blast in the studio. Plus we get to bug them for George Martin stories in between takes!" says co-producer Adam Schlesinger. Famed producer of The Beatles, George Martin produced the bulk of America's hits.

The double CD set will include one CD of newly recorded songs as well as a separate disc of America's classic hits, recorded live at XM Radio as part of XM's "Then ... Again ... Live!" series. The live CD replicates their entire History Greatest Hits album which has sold over 7 million copies worldwide.

America, best known for their #1 hits "A Horse With No Name" and "Sister Golden Hair," was one of the top selling bands of the seventies notching 11 U.S. Top 40 singles and 17 gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums. The group was honored in 1972 by winning that year's Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

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