Down This Avenue

Description

Down This Avenue is the sophomore album by the American pop singer and songwriter Glen Allen Green, released on Home Sweet Home Records in 1987, manufactured and distributed by Word. The album was produced by Glen Allen Green.

Is Glen Allen Green’s second Home Sweet Home release better than his pleasing debut? Yes and no.

Yes, the songs are better. Green wrote all 10 numbers on ‘Down This Avenue’, and they cover the spectrum from ballads to light rockers. Songs like «Love Is Waiting Here», the title cut, the funny/serious «Living for Babylon», and the consciousness-raising «A Million Miles Away» provide indisputable evidence of exceptional songwriting talent. Green has a keen ear for melodies and a deep heart for meaningful lyrics.

But no, the album is not as strong as 1985’s ‘A Living Fire‘, which was produced and arranged by whiz kid Keith Thomas. Instead, it’s Green who produced ‘Down This Avenue’, and the results are less than stunning. Good songs get buried under weak arrangements and sloppy production, proving once again that writing good songs and making them sound good in the studio are two distinct talents.

Words aptly sung are like apples of gold in settings of silver (my apologies to Solomon here), but Green’s latest apples are hidden under a bushel of blandness. And that’s too bad. [Steve Rabey, CCM, May 1988]

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LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Love Is Waiting Here” – 5:23
A2. “Down This Avenue” – 4:32
A3. “Living For Babylon” – 5:05
A4. “Eternity” – 4:55
A5. “Look Up” – 4:15

Side Two
B1. “Turn Up The Music” – 4:03
B2. “A Million Miles Away” – 4:54
B3. “Out West” – 5:15
B4. “Famine Of The Heart” – 4:45
B5. “Not In The Grave” – 4:36

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and 12-inch vinyl LP by Home Sweet Home. Re-issued on CD by Sugo Music Group in 2013.

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