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Best of Dream Weaver

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Gary Wright is one of 70's greatest songwiters that had worked with a number of great talents before their glorious 80s days including Mick Jones(Foreigner) and Steve Winwood during Spooky Tooth times. He is also known as the trendsetter in keyboard/synth featured techno pop. So this compilation which came out in 1998 is sort of unknown treasures of 70s that finally see the light of day.

GET ON THE RIGHT ROAD and I KNOW A PLACE really rock somewhat Three Dog Night styled. STAND FOR OUR RIGHTS is one of my favorites other than huge hits such as DREAMWEAVER and LOVE IS ALIVE. KEEP LOVE IN YOUR SOUL featuring Steve Lukather as guitar solo is something like TOTO material while ARE YOU WEEPING is Steve Winwood trademark style.

Highly recommended if you like 70s mainstream American Pop.

I was a little sad he chose the "Best of the DreamWeaver" for the title of this compilation. I understand the marketing aspect of it though and I hope it's a financial success. The two previously unreleased tracks were very welcome and I love "Someone Like You". It reminds me of a song Gary wrote for the movie "Endangered Species" that can only be heard in the background of one scene. If it had been up to me this cd would have had twice as many songs...

Hopefully he'll be able to pull all his live performances on shows like "Midnight Special" and "Don Kirshner's Rock concert" and put out a 'best of' live video...

Gary Wright was born early in the sense the time he experienced wasnt acknowledged his talent in the way he really deserves it.
Gary is the perfect combination of musical skills, experimentation, melody sense, poetry and a lot of personal memories....every time I hear this CD a lot of personal remembrances come to my head.
Definitely the creation power of this song and music writer cant found more acknowledgement in his time...maybe for technical reasons or maybe because of other stars in the sky were shinning in those days......

Usually, compilation CD's do not include one or two tracks that seem to wind up on a secondary "best of" offering. In this case, "I Really Want To Know You", a mid-chart early 80's hit was included! Interesting tracks will take you deeper into Wright's library.

Gary Wright was born in New Jersey, but he started recording in 1967 and then moved on to work with "Spooky Tooth". In 1970 he was one of many upcoming talents that helped with George Harrison's keyboards on his famous 3-LP, "All Things Must Pass". Now this collection gathers the best from his studio recordings from 1971 to 1998. Its mostly a seventies sound with blockbusters like, Love Is Alive" and "Dreamweaver", but other songs like "Touch And Gone" are thrillers. Along with those, he manages some good heart-breaking ballads, such as, "Someone Like You". The songwriting, instrumentals and vocals are all top notch and this is really the best collection available with great liner notes.

The first CD I received had scratches on it, the vendor sent me another copy out immediately. I was very happy with the customer service.

I was listening to this CD the other night and I swear I could hear the "styles" of many different musicians! Some from earlier & some from later! It was kind of a strange revelation. I'm pleased!

I lost my 33 of this artist and I forgot all about it till I heard it on the radio again. Man, am I glad for Amazon! The CD gets a five star but it took a long time for my CD's to arrive. Well, I got them and I am enjoying every single one of them.

I bought this CD for "Dream Weaver" and "Love is Alive". In addition to adding these mid-70s cruising-in-the-car favorites to my collection, I now have a much greater appreciation for Gary Wright's entire career. Everything on the disc is of the highest quality - no filler at all. It's an excellent buy.

I was surprised by all the great music that was on this cd from the track "get on the right road" to the last track "if you believe in heaven" I never realized Gary Wright recorded anything but "dream weaver"since little has been said til now!