Come to Where I’m From by Joseph Arthur

Come to Where I'm From, Joseph Arthur's second album, came out on Real World Records on April 11, 2000, three years after Big City Secrets. The Akron, Ohio songwriter had been Peter Gabriel's discovery, the first North American act on Gabriel's label, and this time he shared the production chair with T Bone Burnett. Arthur has said he wanted these songs to feel human and risky, as if they might fly off the rails at any second, rather than polished into submission, and you can hear it: the arrangements breathe, the guitars fray at the edges, and his voice slides from hush to ragged plea without warning.

"Chemical" and "In the Sun" were the singles, the latter a slow-burning hymn that sounds like it was written at dawn. Real World thought enough of the record to reissue it in July 2012 as part of its Real World Gold series.

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