Released May 19, 2009 Label Sony Music | Release date 19 May 2009 | |
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Recorded Blackbird StudiosNashville, Tennessee Length 50:0263:45 (Bonus Track Version) Genres Rock music, Acoustic music, Pop music Similar Mat Kearney albums, Rock music albums |
Mat kearney all i have
City of Black & White is the third studio album by Mat Kearney. Released on May 19, 2009, it follows his 2006 major-label debut Nothing Left to Lose. The first single "Closer to Love" was released on March 10, 2009 as a digital download. To promote the album, Kearney toured with Keane and The Helio Sequence. On the day of its release, the bonus track version peaked at #7 on the iTunes Top Albums, and the standard version peaked at #19. Kearney wrote the title track while traveling in Turkey. He explained that this song "was born on a ferry as I crossed the Bosphorus River, which splits Istanbul in two.". "Fire & Rain" was also released as a digital download to MySpace the week of the album release. Immediately after the album was released, "Lifeline" was used in commercial adverisment for season 3 of Lifetime Television's Army Wives. The commercial has been aired not only on Lifetime but ABC as well.
Contents
According to Soundscan, as of September 21, 2010, City of Black & White has sold 87,459 copies in the US.
Track listing
All songs written by Mat Kearney unless stated otherwise.
- "All I Have"- 4:49
- "Fire & Rain"- 3:50 (Mat Kearney, Robert Marvin)
- "Closer to Love" – 3:37 (Mat Kearney, Robert Marvin, Josiah Bell)
- "Here We Go" – 4:14 (Mat Kearney, Robert Marvin)
- "Lifeline" - 4:14 (Mat Kearney, Trent Dabbs, Matthew Perryman Jones)
- "New York to California"- 4:15
- "Runaway Car" - 4:12
- "Never Be Ready" - 3:37 (Mat Kearney, Trent Dabbs, Hilary Lindsey)
- "Annie" - 3:49
- "Straight Away" - 3:51
- "On and On" - 4:02 (Mat Kearney, Kate York)
- "City of Black & White" - 5:38 (Mat Kearney, Michael Logan)
- "Everyone I Know" (iTunes bonus track) - 4:33
- "Here We Go (acoustic)" (iTunes bonus track) - 4:04
- "All I Have (acoustic)" (iTunes bonus video) - 5:06
- "Closer to Love (acoustic)" (iTunes pre-order bonus track) - 5:06
- "Save A Line" (Best Buy bonus track) - 4:09
- "Fire & Rain (Acoustic)" (Best Buy bonus track) - 3:51
Personnel
Songs
1All I Have4:49
2Fire and Rain3:50
3Closer to Love3:37