America Town by Five for Fighting

America Town, Five for Fighting's second album, came out in 2000 on Aware Records, the Columbia imprint, with Gregg Wattenberg producing. Five for Fighting is really one man, singer-songwriter and pianist John Ondrasik, and this is where his piano-driven soft rock found its audience.

The big one was "Superman (It's Not Easy)", a tender piano ballad that became a top 40 hit and earned a Grammy nomination, and "Easy Tonight" gave the record a second song people still know. It's earnest, melodic, unashamedly sentimental stuff, built on Ondrasik's high, fragile voice and chords that swell right where you expect them to. It sold slowly and steadily: gold on November 1, 2001, platinum in 2004, and more than 966,000 copies in the United States by 2009.

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