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Hourglass (America album)

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Hourglass
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 17, 1994
Recorded1994
GenreCountry rock[1]
Length48:16
LabelAmerican Gramaphone
ProducerGerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, Steve Levine
America chronology
Encore: More Greatest Hits
(1991)
Hourglass
(1994)
In Concert
(1995)

Hourglass is the 13th studio album by American folk rock duo America, released by American Gramaphone in 1994. This was America's first new studio album since 1984's Perspective. Two singles were released from the album, "Young Moon" and "Hope", but did not chart in the U.S. The songs did receive more airplay in Europe. The song "Hope" became a theme song for the TJ Martell Foundation and was recorded by a group of country music stars in a fundraising effort for the Foundation. The recording of "You Can Do Magic" included here is not the hit version but a re-recording that is very similar.

Actor/musician Bill Mumy contributed to this album, co-writing "Sleeper Train" and "Greenhouse" and providing additional guitar work.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

AllMusic asserted that the album "sounds both familiar and fresh" and that the songs are uniformly excellent, a surprise for a band as old as America. The opening track "Young Moon" "is as good as any of the group's hits."[2]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Young Moon"Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell4:27
2."Hope"Beckley5:21
3."Sleeper Train"Bunnell, Bill Mumy, Robert Haimer4:20
4."Mirror to Mirror"Beckley4:08
5."Garden of Peace"Beckley, Bunnell4:21
6."Call of the Wild"Beckley3:17
7."Whole Wide World"Bunnell3:25
8."Close to the Wind"Beckley, Steve Levine5:33
9."Greenhouse"Bunnell, Mumy, Haimer2:35
10."Ports-of-Call"Beckley, Bunnell4:11
11."Everyone I Meet Is From California"Dan Peek2:51
12."You Can Do Magic"Russ Ballard3:44

References

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  1. ^ Nixon, Neil (2003). "America". In Buckley, Peter (ed.). The Rough Guide to Rock (3rd ed.). London: Rough Guides. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-84353-105-0.
  2. ^ a b Hourglass at AllMusic
  3. ^ Cross, Charles R. (2004). "America". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 16. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.