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Daughtry achieved global success together with its self-titled debut, the biggest selling artist open of the past two years. The band's Grammy-nominated, quadruple-platinum debut garnered multiple American Music Awards, World Music Awards, and Billboard Music Awards. Daughtry spent much of the last two years on the road, performing to sold-out arenas, but is now back together with the follow-up to the its massive debut. Go away This Town will be available on July 14, 2009, and was produced by Howard Benson.

Customer Reviews
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Love every song!   2010-03-11
By J. Vo
I rarely buy music and I never write reviews but this album deserves five stars and great reviews!
Customer rating is 5 of 5  well done daughtry   2010-03-05
By M. Squire (Idaho)
I saw this go on deal of the day again and I wanted to buy it again. the music is excellent. daughtry excels at coming up with catchy tunes that aren't annoying when they stick in your head. the pity is that radio kill songs by overplaying them, this should give his first excellent (but overplayed) album a reprieve.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Can't stop playing this CD!   2010-03-03
By Titanic Fan (Rhode Island, USA)
Chris Daughtry has come so far since coming in 5th place in American Idol just a few short years ago. This is the band's 2nd CD and it raises the bar even further than the 1st. I have heard this over an over in my car and there doesn't seem to be any chance that I will get sick of it anytime soon. They are very talented and have an infectious sound that carries flawlessly from one track to another. There are no bad tracks on this one. Every one is a winner! I highly recommend this CD.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Daughtry Fan must have   2010-03-02
By T-Bone
The title says it all. It was delivered as promised not a scratch on it. It is a Daughtry Fan must have to add to the collection.
Customer rating is 2 of 5  Sophomore release pales in the shadow of the first...   2010-03-01
By Robert Angerer (Houston)
I really dug Chris Daughtry's first album (4 of 5 stars IMO). Arguably the best rock vocal talent to come out of Idol, I really wanted to like this, the second album from Chris Daughtry. I bought it right on the release date.

What follows isn't your usual review w/ song-by-song dialog... plenty of good reviews like that out here on Amazon. I'll come at this review primarily from the angle of musicianship and studio recording/mixing/production.

If you don't own either of Daughtry's albums, definitely buy the self titled first album "Daughtry". It went 4X Platinum versus "Leave This Town's" approx 1X Platinum at the time of this writing. I can see a few reasons for the difference in sales.

It's not simply attributable to the dreaded and now hackneyed "Sophomore Slump", nor is it because of any lack for talent in song writing, as Daughtry co-wrote the second album with a host of talented people, including notably Richard Marx, and to a lesser degree Chad Kroeger, et al. (See wiki for other collaborators). And Chris managed to lure Vince Gill (a seriously talented Country song writer, guitar player, and vocalist) into singing with him on the silly sounding "Tennessee Line" tune (the "fiddle" at the end made me throw up in my mouth a little bit).

And the *relative* failure of this second album isn't completely at the hands of Producer Howard Benson, who produced both (I'm never *quite* sure how much to attribute the final product to the producer or to the recording engineers and mixing engineers).

I have to point at both the band members used for the second album and at the studio engineering and/or mixing as the big points of relative difference... along with an intangible I can't quite put my finger on, other than to say something just didn't grab with the second album's blend of songs = music + lyrics + musicianship.

1) Chris proudly proclaimed that he was happy to now have a "real band" for this second album. He and his handlers should have found a way to keep the studio guys from the first album, without a doubt. In particular, on the first album, Phil X (Canadian Phil Xenidis) did a phenomenal job playing a variety of rock rhythm guitar styles, nice layering, all very clearly recorded, and all showing a seasoned hand at both getting a great studio guitar sound, from clean to crunchy to overdriven-and-in-your-face. And Xenidis' sensibility in steadily building the guitar lines from front to back of the songs was just First Rate... very professional, very astute and talented rock playing. The guitar players who are now a part of Daughtry's real "band" sound positively ham-fisted by comparison, and get a very over-driven preamp and boringly typical guitar sound (very typical for the 2000's so far). Xenidis' work absolutely schools these guys, and in a big way. Guitar playing may be a subtle point to some, but absolutely glaring to me. I really miss the sound that Phil X, bass player Chris Chaney (ex Jane's Addiction and Panic Channel), and drummer Josh Freese put down on the first album. Slashes' guitar solo on "What I Want" was classic Slash wah-wah noodling, a bit "phoned-in", but still interesting none-the-less. I found the second album to be very uninvolving from a musical standpoint, and you might too if you happen to have any predilections towards musicianship.

2) I also have to point at the studio engineering. On the first album, admittedly a very forward and compressed sounding studio production (the norm these days), at least you could hear all the parts balanced out in an appropriate way... drums and bass, layered guitars... and most notably Daughtry's voice had a full, warm expanse that showcased his range. The second album has Chris' vocals sounding thin on the low end, and sounding a bit strident and trebly in his upper registers. Not sure what went wrong, but the first album sounds so much better, so much more balanced, and the second album has an unforgiveably tilted up frequency response. And the overall mix with the band is variable and skewed at times. A shame, as it shouldn't be hard to get this right with today's studio technology. Did I mention that Phil Xenidis' guitar playing and amplifier sounds kicked @_$_$ on the first album? Uh, yeah... I repeat myself. Kerrang.

I listened to the first album repeatedly... and I still listen to it about once a month. I tried hard, but couldn't muster interest in the second album after two weeks of "giving it time". I held off writing this review for many months, hoping the second album would grow on me, but I threw my first impressions at the wall, and they stuck.

Sorry, Chris and Howard. Better get fired up and hire some studio talent for round 3, lest a great rock vocal fledgling melt the wax in his wings and crash on the tarmac.


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