Home Before Dark [Digipak] - Neil Diamond

Main specs

Title: Home Before Dark [Digipak]

Performer: Neil Diamond

Genre: Pop Vocal

Release Date: 12/05/2008

Original Release Year: 2008

Label / Distributor: Columbia / Sony BMG/Arvato Services

Pieces in Set: 1

Studio / Live: Studio

Stereo: Stereo

Format: Performer

EAN: 886971546521

Catalogue Number: 88697154652

Additional notes

Album Notes: Neil Diamond's 2005 collaboration with Rick Rubin, 12 SONGS, found the latter stripping the pop legend's work down to a sparse, acoustic-based sound, as he'd famously done for Johnny Cash in the '90s. Apparently the experience impressed Diamond enough to warrant a second go-round with the producer. HOME BEFORE DARK takes a similar sonic approach as its predecessor; on most of these songs Diamond is backed by little more than Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell's acoustic guitar and Benmont Tench's piano (the pair contributed to Cash's recordings too), but in restrospect, 12 SONGS almost seems like a warm-up for this one. There's a sense of emotional nakedness here, as the 67-year-old Diamond peers deeply into the intricacies of his life, delivering penetrating insights in a highly reflective mode while never losing sight of his gifts as a master pop melody-maker. While most of the songs here are slow-to-medium ruminations on deep subjects, each one comes fully equipped with expert melodic turns that make these tunes as pleasing to the ear as they are to the mind.

Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (p.68) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Like Johnny Cash's Rubin-produced AMERICAN RECORDINGS series, HOME BEFORE DARK cuts the music down to its essence..."

Titles on disc 1

1.: If I Don't See You Again

2.: Pretty Amazing Grace

3.: Don't Go There

4.: Another Day (That Time Forgot) - Diamond, Neil & Natalie Maines

5.: One More Bite Of The Apple

6.: Forgotten

7.: Act Like A Man

8.: Whose Hands Are These

9.: No Words

10.: Power Of Two

11.: Slow It Down

12.: Home Before Dark

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