''In a Quiet Room'' is the eleventh album released by
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
artist
Dan Seals and his only album on the Intersound label. This album consists mostly of acoustic versions of songs featured on earlier albums, as well as two songs — "
I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" and "
Love Is the Answer" — that he originally recorded as one-half of the soft rock duo
England Dan & John Ford Coley.
"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" and "The Healin' Kind" were both released as singles.
Critical reception
Thom Owens of
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...
gave the album two stars out of five, saying, "It's a pleasant album, yet it doesn't offer any new revelations or great performances."
''New Country'' magazine reviewer Rob Patterson gave the album two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that the re-recordings were largely identical to the original versions, and that Seals occasionally sounded like a
soft rock
Soft rock is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in Southern California and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. S ...
artist.
Track listing
#"
I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" (
Parker McGee
Jerry Parker McGee (born April 1951) is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter, originally from Meridian, Mississippi.
Early life
McGee was born in Meridian, Mississippi, one of three sons, to Albert R. "Pat" McGee, and Ruby McGee. He graduated f ...
) - 2:57
# "
Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)
"Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Dan Seals. It was released in March 1986 as the third single from the album ''Won't Be Blue Anymore''. It peaked at number one in both the ...
" (Dan Seals,
Bob McDill
Robert Lee McDill (born April 4, 1944) is a retired American songwriter, active from the 1960s until 2000. During his career he wrote or co-wrote 31 number one country hits. His songs were also recorded by popular artists of the 1970s, 1980s an ...
) - 2:57
# "
Big Wheels in the Moonlight" (McDill, Seals) - 3:52
# "
One Friend" (Seals) - 3:14
# "
Bop" (
Jennifer Kimball,
Paul Davis) - 3:10
# "
You Still Move Me" (Seals) - 4:53
# "
Love Is the Answer" (
Todd Rundgren
Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, multimedia artist, sound engineer and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the band Ut ...
) - 4:08
# "
They Rage On" (McDill, Seals) - 4:48
# "The Healin' Kind" (feat.
Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician. She entered the music industry at an early age, competing in local contests by the age of 8 and recording for the first time at 14. She signed with ...
) (Ronnie Bowman, Greg Luck) - 3:02
# "Don't Believe I'd Fall in Love Again" (Seals, Rafe Van Hoy) - 3:10
References
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1995 albums
Dan Seals albums