City of Black & White

City of Black & White
Studio album by Mat Kearney
Released	May 19, 2009
Recorded	Blackbird Studios Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Rock, Pop, Acoustic
Length	50:02 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
"Closer to Love" Released: 2009 "All I Have" Released: 2009

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Album Project	[2]
Jesus Freak Hideout	[3]

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 adverisment for season 3 of Lifetime Television's Army Wives. The commercial has been aired not only on Lifetime but ABC as well.

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 and On" - 4:02 (Mat Kearney, Kate York)
12. "City of Black & White" - 5:38 (Mat Kearney, Michael Logan)
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

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ The Album Project review
3. ^ Jesus Freak Hideout review
4. ^ http://www.matkearney.com/
5. ^ http://www.apple.com/itunes/top-100/albums/
6. ^ City of Black & White Songfacts

4. Mat Kearney - official twitter account

External links

• Mat Kearney - official site
• Track by Track Part 1
• Track by Track Part 2
• Track by Track Part 3
• Track by Track Part 4