Musicians :
Dewey Bunnell (lead & backing vocals, acoustic guitar), Gerry Beckley (bass, acoustic guitars, electric guitar, piano, lead & backing vocals), Dan Peek (acoustic guitars, electric guitar, piano, bass, lead & backing vocals), David Lindley (electric & steel guitar), Kim Haworth (drums, electric guitar, steel guitar), Ray Cooper (percussion), Dave Atwood (drums).

America is the debut studio album by America, released in 1971. It was initially released without "A Horse with No Name", which was released as a single in late 1971. When "A Horse with No Name" became a worldwide hit in early 1972, the album was re-released with that track.

The album went to N° 1 on the Billboard album chart in the United States and stayed there for five weeks. It produced two hit singles; "A Horse with No Name" spent three weeks at N° 1 on the Billboard singles chart in 1972 (it peaked at N° 3 on the Adult Contemporary chart), and "I Need You" hit N° 9 on the Billboard singles chart and N° 7 on the AC chart. Several other songs received radio airplay on FM stations playing album tracks, including "Sandman" (long-rumored to be about the United States Navy VQ-2 air squadron formerly based in Rota, Spain) and "Three Roses". The album was certified platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of one million units in the U.S.