Remain
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| The Great Divide studio album | ||||
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November 5, 2002 |
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| Label (s) | 92E Records | |||
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10 |
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running time |
41:56 |
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Chris Leuzinger |
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Studio (s) |
Legends Studios / Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville , Tennessee |
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Remain is the sixth studio album by the American band The Great Divide .
Track list
- Fly On - 2:49
- Lost in the Night - 4:18
- Remain - 3:44
- Gypsy Steel - 3:55
- Other Side of Midnight - 4:33
- Bummin 'Around - 3:53
- Moon Is Almost Full - 3:14
- If You Want It That Much - 3:46
- Mary Hold On - 3:32
- If Not for You - 8:12
background
Remain was the follow-up album to Dirt and Spirit in 2002 , which the band had recorded with other musicians from the so-called Red Dirt scene, including Bob Childers , Cross Canadian Ragweed and Tom Skinner . At the same time it was the last album for the group with frontman, songwriter and producer Mike McClure , who had already released his first solo album Twelve Pieces a few months before the release of Remain . McClure then decided to found the Mike McClure Band and at the same time stepped out of his old band in 2003 as the first founding member.
The recordings for the album were made in an unusually long period of four months in three different studios in Nashville . Chris Leuzinger was the producer. On November 5, 2002, Remain was officially released.
The album consists of ten songs, most of which were written by Mike McClure himself. Only for the song Bummin 'Around did he get support from Scott Copeland . The album is named after his title track Remain , which McClure and his band set to music for the album Camelot Falling in 2005 . The last song on the album is a hidden track . The title Lost in the Night was released as a single .
reception
The Billboard magazine described the album as "excellent" mix of country and rock music.
The album received great praise from the German-speaking website “Rocktimes”. The reviewer heard "precise songs with beautiful melodies" and compared the band to musicians JJ Cale and Van Morrison . The songs Fly On , Lost In The Night , Remain , Gypsy Steel , Bummin 'Around and Mary Hold On were highlighted as particularly good . Reviewer Bobby Allison-Gallimore also came to a positive verdict, even if, unlike Revolutions , published in 1999, none of the songs would have hit properties. “Highly recommended” is the verdict of musikansich.de, which emphasizes the successful genre mix of rock and country .
From a commercial point of view, however, the group could not follow up on the successes they celebrated during the late 1990s with Atlantic Records . Neither the album nor the single Lost in the Night could reach the genre charts.
Web links
- Album information ( Memento from November 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on thegreatdivide.com (English, Internet Archive from November 20, 2006)
- Remain at Allmusic (English)
- Remain at CD-Universe (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stillwater Scene, November 2002, page 4 ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Phyllis Stark: Great Divide Keeps It Together For E92 Disc 'Remain' . In: Billboard, Nov. 30, 2002, p.11
- ^ Daniel Daus, March 23, 2003: album review at Rocktimes.de , accessed on March 27, 2013
- ^ Bobby Allison-Gallimore, August 15, 2002: Album Review at Blogcritics.org , Accessed March 27, 2013
- ↑ Gerald Halbig: album review at musikansich.de , accessed on March 27, 2013
