Track Listing 1. Days in Avalon 2. Shine 3. Someone Special 4. Almost Everything 5. Edge of Forever, The 6. Power of You and Me 7. One More Time 8. Waiting on Your Love 9. More Than a Mystery 10. Boy Next Door 11. Too Early to Be Over 12. Straight From My Heart
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Alison Krauss, Fee Waybill, Randy Jackson | | Producer: | Richard Marx | | Distributor: | Navarre | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel includes: Richard Marx (vocals, keyboards); Anne Bent, Julie Lyons (vocals); Michael Landau (acoustic & electric guitars); Bruce Gaitsch (acoustic guitar); J.T. Corenflos (electric guitar); Michael Thompson (guitar); Paul Franklin (pedal steel guitar); Jeffrey C.J. Vanston (keyboards, programming); Randy Jackson (bass); Herman Matthews (drums); Fee Waybill, Yvonne Gage, Joan Collaso, Robin E. Robinson, Alison Krauss, Shannon Brown (background vocals). Engineers include: David Cole, Luke Wooten, Bill Drescher. Chicago native Richard Marx's sixth self-produced studio album consolidates his reputation as a stellar purveyor of smooth rock. Every song fits Marx like a thousand-dollar suit; it's hard to pick one out that's not tailor-made for your favorite lite FM station. They all portray Marx as the lonely-yet-attractive outsider of countless similar songs, though "Almost Everything," with its "All Along the Watchtower" opening minor-key chords, points the way to a more genuine emotional commitment to his material. "Power of You and Me" is a midtempo rocker that recalls late '80s adult contemporary rock at its best, while also harking towards a kind of Nashville 2000 country/rock hybrid that would sound at home on a SheDaisy album (Marx has collaborated with both the Nashville girl combo and 'N Sync). "Straight From My Heart" is a pretty, acoustic song that's more obviously Nashville-oriented. Marx is certainly a consummate songsmith--the son of a Chicago commercial jingle songwriter, he learned writing-to-order at his father's knee. For unrepentant, grown-up pop smarts, look no further.
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