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''City of Black & White'' is the third studio album by Mat Kearney. Released on May 19, 2009, it follows his 2006 major-label debut ''Nothing Left to Lose''. The first single "Closer to Love" was released on March 10, 2009 as a digital download. To promote the album, Kearney toured with Keane and The Helio Sequence. On the day of its release, the bonus track version peaked at #7 on the iTunes Top Albums, and the standard version peaked at #19.〔()〕 Kearney wrote the title track while traveling in Turkey. He explained that this song "was born on a ferry as I crossed the Bosphorus River, which splits Istanbul in two.".〔(City of Black & White Songfacts )〕 "Fire & Rain" was also released as a digital download to MySpace the week of the album release. Immediately after the album was released, "Lifeline" was used in commercial adverisment for season 3 of Lifetime Television's ''Army Wives''. The commercial has been aired not only on Lifetime but ABC as well. According to Soundscan, as of September 21, 2010, ''City of Black & White'' has sold 87,459 copies in the US. == Track listing == All songs written by Mat Kearney unless stated otherwise. # "All I Have"- 4:49 # "Fire & Rain"- 3:50 (Mat Kearney, Robert Marvin) # "Closer to Love" – 3:37 (Mat Kearney, Robert Marvin, Josiah Bell) # "Here We Go" – 4:14 (Mat Kearney, Robert Marvin) # "Lifeline" - 4:14 (Mat Kearney, Trent Dabbs, Matthew Perryman Jones) # "New York to California"- 4:15 # "Runaway Car" - 4:12 # "Never Be Ready" - 3:37 (Mat Kearney, Trent Dabbs, Hilary Lindsey) # "Annie" - 3:49 # "Straight Away" - 3:51 # "On and On" - 4:02 (Mat Kearney, Kate York) # "City of Black & White" - 5:38 (Mat Kearney, Michael Logan) # "Everyone I Know" (iTunes bonus track) - 4:33 # "Here We Go (acoustic)" (iTunes bonus track) - 4:04 # "All I Have (acoustic)" (iTunes bonus video) - 5:06 # "Closer to Love (acoustic)" (iTunes pre-order bonus track) - 5:06 # "Save A Line" (Best Buy bonus track) - 4:09 # "Fire & Rain (Acoustic)" (Best Buy bonus track) - 3:51 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「City of Black & White」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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