The Dream Weaver by Gary Wright

The Dream Weaver, Gary Wright's third solo album, came out on Warner Bros. in July 1975, and it's a genuine curio: a rock record played almost entirely on electronic keyboards. The Spooky Tooth veteran cut his demos on keyboards and a drum machine, planning to bring in a regular rock band, then decided the keyboard-heavy tracks sounded fine without guitars. So David Foster, Bobby Lyle and Wright himself stack up the keys, Jim Keltner and Andy Newmark play drums, and Ronnie Montrose adds electric guitar to "Power of Love".

His friendship with George Harrison fed the spiritual, Indian-tinged themes in his songs. The album barely made a ripple at first, then crept up to number seven on the Billboard 200 in the spring of 1976, while "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive" both reached number two on the Hot 100. It kept selling, going double platinum by 1995.

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