User:JSFarman/sandbox/Melody Road (Neil Diamond album)

Melody Road is Neil Diamond's debut album for Capitol Records. His 32nd studio album, it is the first album of original music Diamond has recorded since 2008's well-received Home Before Dark, which debuted on the US album charts at #1. It was produced by Don Was and Jacknife Lee.

On September 8, 2014, six of the tracks from Melody Road were premiered at the Capitol Records studios in Hollywood, CA at a listening party for a small group of music industry executives and journalists. Following the event, Billboard wrote that the album is "rich in orchestration that retains the dark rustic qualities of his last two studio albums of original material, 12 Songs and Home Before Dark. Of the songs, the article stated that "Something Blue," the most commercial of the songs played Monday, has the classic Diamond mid-tempo lilt; the ballads "The Art of Love" and "(Ooo) Do I Wanna Be Yours" offer springboards for Diamond's still-potent voice; and "Seongah and Jimmy" is a eyewitness account of a romance between a woman from Korea and a man from Long Island." The Wall Street Journal wrote that the song is a "tender offering from Diamond, who at age 73, hasn’t lost that ability to convey a wide swath of emotions in just four minutes."

A lyric video for "The Art of Love" debuted on Diamond's YouTube/VEVO channel on September 9.

Track listing

 * 1. “Melody Road”
 * 2. “First Time”
 * 3. “Seongah and Jimmy”
 * 4. “Something Blue”
 * 5. “Nothing But A Heartache”
 * 6. “In Better Days”
 * 7. “Ooo Do I Wanna Be Yours”
 * 8. “Alone At The Ball”
 * 9. “Sunny Disposition”
 * 10. “Marry Me Now”
 * 11. “The Art of Love”
 * 12. “Melody Road (Reprise)”