Like a Brother

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Like a Brother | type = Album | artist = Beckley-Lamm-Wilson | cover = Likeabrother.jpg | alt = | released = 2000 | recorded = 1992<ref name="Galdston liner notes">{{cite web |last1=Galdston |first1=Phil |title=Beach Boys Fan Club: Like a Brother Liner Notes |url=http://beachboysfanclub.org/liner-notes/lab.html |website=Beach Boys Fan Club |access-date=May 2, 2025}}</ref>–1998<ref name="Galdston liner notes" /> | venue = | studio = | genre = Adult contemporary | length = 41:56 | label = Transparent Music | producer = Phil Galdston, Gerry Beckley, Robert Lamm, Carl Wilson, Steve Levine | chronology = Gerry Beckley | prev_title = Go Man Go | prev_year = 2000 | next_title = Horizontal Fall | next_year = 2006 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Robert Lamm | type = Album | prev_title = In My Head | prev_year = 1999 | title = Like A Brother | year = 2000 | next_title = Subtlety & Passion | next_year = 2003 }} {{Extra chronology | artist = Carl Wilson | type = Album | prev_title = Youngblood | prev_year = 1983 | title = Like a Brother | year = 2000 | next_title = | next_year = }} }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r487117|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref> }} '''''Like a Brother''''' is the only collaborative album by America's Gerry Beckley, Chicago's Robert Lamm, and the Beach Boys' Carl Wilson. It was also the final studio album by Wilson. It was released in 2000, two years after Wilson had died from lung cancer, and it was the last album he recorded before his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accessbackstage.com/america/album/album81.htm|title=''Like A Brother'' album|accessdate=2008-04-03|publisher=www.accessbackstage.com}}</ref> The trio first appeared together on a rendition of "Without Her" from the 1995 Harry Nilsson tribute album ''For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson'', followed by "Watching The Time Go By" from Lamm's 1999 solo album ''In My Head''.

== Track listing ==

{{track listing | extra_column = Lead vocals | title1 = Today | writer1 = John Waite, Phil Galdston | extra1 = Carl Wilson | length1 = 4:15 | title2 = Feel the Spirit | writer2 = Phil Galdston, Robert Lamm, Peter Wolf | extra2 = Robert Lamm | length2 = 5:11 | title3 = I Wish for You | writer3 = Carl Wilson, Robert White Johnson, Galdston | extra3 = Wilson | length3 = 3:01 | title4 = Run Don't Walk | writer4 = Wilson, Galdston | extra4 = Wilson | length4 = 3:55 | title5 = Watching the Time | writer5 = Gerry Beckley | extra5 = Gerry Beckley with Lamm and Wilson | length5 = 3:52 | title6 = Life in Motion | writer6 = Lamm, Gerard McMahon | extra6 = Lamm | length6 = 4:30 | title7 = Sheltering Sky | writer7 = Beckley | extra7 = Beckley with Lamm and Wilson | length7 = 3:20 | title8 = They're Only Words | writer8 = Wilson, Galdston | extra8 = Wilson | length8 = 4:40 | title9 = Without Her | note9 = from the album ''For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson'' | writer9 = Harry Nilsson | extra9 = Beckley | length9 = 4:29 | title10 = Like a Brother | writer10 = Wilson, Galdston | extra10 = Wilson | length10 = 4:43 }} {{Track listing | headline = 2001 Japanese CD bonus tracks | extra_column = Lead vocals | title11 = Standing at Your Door | writer11 = Lamm, John Van Eps | extra11 = Lamm | length11 = 4:25 | title12 = Blue After All | writer12 = Lamm, Bruce Gaitsch | extra12 = Lamm | length12 = 4:22 | title13 = In the Dark | writer13 = Beckley, Galdston | extra13 = Beckley | length13 = 5:27 }}

== Personnel ==

Credits from the original liner notes, as re-published on albumlinernotes.com.<ref name="liner notes 2">{{cite web |title=Like a Brother: Liner Notes |url=http://www.albumlinernotes.com/Like_A_Brother.html |website=AlbumLinerNotes.com |access-date=May 2, 2025}}</ref>

* Gerry Beckley – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitars, mandolin, producer * Robert Lamm – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, producer * Carl Wilson – lead and backing vocals, electric guitars, producer * Paul Livant – electric guitars * Steve Tarshis – electric guitars * Michael Thompson – guitars * Jason Scheff – bass * Phil Galdston – keyboards, programming, producer * John Van Tongeren – keyboards * Tom Hammer – keyboards * Sammy Merendino – drums * Jimmy Hunter – drums * Michael Fisher – percussion * Timmy Cappello – saxophone * Van Dyke Parks – accordion * Steve Levine - producer ("Watching the Time", "Life in Motion", "Sheltering Sky")

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Category:2000 collaborative albums Category:Carl Wilson albums