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Till the Sun Turns Black | 
| Artist: Ray Lamontagne
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: $18.97
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Rating:  97 reviews
Sales Rank: 526
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.5
MPN: 83328
UPC: 828768332825
EAN: 0828768332825
ASIN: B000GPIPVU
Release Date: August 29, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Be Here Now | | • | Empty | | • | Barfly | | • | Three More Days | | • | Can I Stay | | • | You Can Bring Me Flowers | | • | Gone Away from Me | | • | Lesson Learned | | • | Truly, Madly, Deeply | | • | Till the Sun Turns Black | | • | Within You |
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How do you follow a debut record that achieved out-of-the-blue grandeur on its way to selling a quarter of a million copies? For Maine's Ray LaMontagne, it's all about shaking up the formula, evading repetition and delivering the unexpected. Till the Sun Turns Black finds the introspective singer/songwriter complementing his folk-country ways with traces of strings and horns and spooky soulful background voices. Songs like "You Can Bring Me Flowers" and "Three More Days" are the most R&B-influenced, the latter shuffling about ala The Band or Tony Joe White. Despite its brooding lyrics, "Empty" has a rollicking, almost breezy delivery, a perfect balance to either the hushed title track, the unnerving "Be Here Now" or the horn-fortified waltz, "Gone Away From Me." Throughout the 11-song sequence, and especially on the final song "Within You," LaMontagne's voice remains the record's most crucial element, as vibrant as it is tattered and as harsh as it is flawless. --Scott Holter
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 Amazing Album October 10, 2008
Sextus Empiricus
This is so good it hurts. I have listened to it over and over with rapt attention. The texture is rich, the poetry, thoughtful. The final five tracks create a beautiful sequence, particularly the couplets eight and nine and ten and eleven. Tracks ten and eleven form one song in two movements and create such a haunting experience that I was frightened on my first listening. I cannot recommend this high enough, and this is after a couple months of consistantly listening to this album. It is my favorite LaMontagne album thus far.
 good back drop music I was looking for a little more rock July 29, 2008
Daniel M. Mitchell (Portland, Or)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The hit on the cd is assume I was hoping for a little more rock. I have had it on with people over for dinner it is perfect for that. He reminds me of Ben Harper the same sort of somberness but not as much rock.
Takes my breath away May 9, 2008
Melanie M. Turlik (Cleveland, OH)
Whenever I listen to Ray LaMontagne I am taken away to a different place- a different planet. There are few artists that have the ability to do that for me. His voice, his lyrics, the way the music wraps around everything is simply stunning. There are no other words to truly explain it.
My favorite song on the album is "Empty." I remember the first time I played that song for a friend of mine- he had tears in his eyes after it was over telling me that he could "feel the pain in the song, and that it was beautiful."
"lay your blouse across the chair,
let fall the flowers from from your hair
and kiss me with that country mouth, so plain.
outside, the rain is tapping on the leaves,
to me it sounds like they're applauding us the the quiet love we made.
will i always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged."
Till The Sun Turns Black May 1, 2008
Tonya Duckworth (Ohio)
Once you start listening to the first track "Be Here Now," you will not want to turn this album off. I was captivated. Every track on this album in brilliant.
Scrumpcious soul January 20, 2008
Carrie Garcia
I love this album! It has a softer, mellower touch than the first, but no less soulful. Of course, Ray Lamontagne's voice is no less stunning. If you want reflective, moody and sometimes dreamy, this will work for you.
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