• Away from the Sun

• Artist:3 Doors Down

• Format:CD

• Release Date:11/12/2002

• Label:Republic Records
• UPC:044006439624
• Genre:Rock

Description

Away from the Sun, released in November of 2002, immediately went Gold, and reached Platinum in early January 2003. It's a much more accomplished album than The Better Life, smoothing out most of the rough patches that slowed down the debut. Lead single "When I'm Gone" is a muscular blues-rocker that recalls Kenny Wayne Shepherd - it's representative of the album's predominantly mid-tempo arrangements that focus on Arnold's contemplative lyrics. He doesn't proselytize like Creed's Scott Stapp, nor does he rely on obvious nu-metal clichs like Saliva's Joey Scott. Instead, Arnold's lyrics lean more towards the first-person confessional style favored by Southern rock mainstays such as the Allman Brothers or Lynyrd Skynyrd. While Universal/Republic might lump them in with the chest-thumpers and active rock doomsayers, Away from the Sun makes it clear that 3 Doors Down are really more comfortable where the sky is always blue.

• Tracks
• Credits

• 1When I'm Gone
• 2Away from the Sun
• 3The Road I'm on
• 4Ticket to Heaven
• 5Running Out of Days
• 6Here Without You
• 7I Feel You
• 8Dangerous Game
• 9Changes
• 10Going Down in Flames
• 11Sarah Yellin'
• 12Bonus Track 1