City of Black & White

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City of Black & White
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Studio album by
Mat Kearney
ReleasedMay 19, 2009
Studio Blackbird (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre Rock, pop, acoustic
Length50:02
63:45 (Bonus Track Version)
Label Aware / Columbia
Producer Robert Marvin, Mat Kearney
Mat Kearney chronology
Nothing Left to Lose
(2006)		City of Black & White
(2009)		 Young Love
(2011)
Singles from City of Black & White
  1. "Closer to Love"
    Released: March 10, 2009
  2. "All I Have"
    Released: 2009
Professional ratings
Review scores
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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. [4] 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. [5] 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.". [6] "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 advertisement 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.

  1. "All I Have"- 4:49
  2. "Fire & Rain"- 3:50 (Mat Kearney, Robert Marvin)
  3. "Closer to Love" – 3:37 (Mat Kearney, Robert Marvin, Josiah Bell)
  4. "Here We Go" – 4:14 (Mat Kearney, Robert Marvin)
  5. "Lifeline" - 4:14 (Mat Kearney, Trent Dabbs, Matthew Perryman Jones)
  6. "New York to California"- 4:15
  7. "Runaway Car" - 4:12
  8. "Never Be Ready" - 3:37 (Mat Kearney, Trent Dabbs, Hilary Lindsey)
  9. "Annie" - 3:49
  10. "Straight Away" - 3:51
  11. "On & On" - 4:02 (Mat Kearney, Kate York)
  12. "City of Black & White" - 5:38 (Mat Kearney, Michael Logen)
  13. "Everyone I Know" (iTunes bonus track) - 4:33
  14. "Here We Go (Acoustic)" (iTunes bonus track) - 4:04
  15. "All I Have (Acoustic)" (iTunes bonus video) - 5:06
  16. "Closer to Love (Acoustic)" (iTunes pre-order bonus track) - 5:06
  17. "Save A Line" (Best Buy bonus track) - 4:09
  18. "Fire & Rain (Acoustic)" (Best Buy bonus track) - 3:51

City of Black & White Revisited (EP)

In 2019, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the album, an EP titled City of Black & White Revisited was released. It peaked at number 46 on the Top Christian Albums chart.

Track listing

  1. "City of Black & White (Re-recorded)"
  2. "All I Have (Re-recorded)"
  3. "Fire & Rain (Re-recorded)"
  4. "New York To California (Re-recorded)"
  5. "Closer To Love (Re-recorded)"

Source: [7]

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart performance for City of Black & White
Chart (2006)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [8] 13
US Christian Albums (Billboard) [9] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [10] 3

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ The Album Project review Archived 2009-04-09 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Jesus Freak Hideout review
  4. ↑ "Official Site". Mat Kearney. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
  5. ↑ Archived April 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ City of Black & White Songfacts
  7. ↑ "City of Black & White Revisited". Amazon.
  8. ↑ "Mat Kearney Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Mat Kearney Chart History (Christian Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Mat Kearney Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
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