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1972 studio album by Melanie
Stoneground Words
Studio album by Melanie
Released1972
Studio914 Sound Studios, Blauvelt, New York
GenrePop
LabelNeighborhood
ProducerPeter Schekeryk
Melanie chronology
Gather Me
(1971) 		Stoneground Words
(1972) 		The Four Sides of Melane
(1972)

Stoneground Words is an album released by Melanie in 1972. It contains the singles "Together Alone" and "Do You Believe".

Production and Development

The album was a conscious effort to move away from the pop sensibilities of her #1 song "Brand New Key" and focus on more introspective material. “I saw Stoneground Words as a sort of statement, something that would remind people that ‘Brand New Key’ was a complete one-off for me."

The project was initially conceived as a double album. The unused tracks recorded during the 1972 sessions would later form the basis of Melanie's 1974 album Madrugada. In 2024, Melanie oversaw the release of a deluxe edition of the album to restore it to its initial double album configuration, stating “it was like restoring a precious antique… no, it was like being handed a bag full of broken china and realizing it was an ornament that you loved when you were younger, but which fell off the shelf and shattered. So you sit there and you piece it back together.”

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic

Allmusic praises the album as "mature, intelligent and ambitious" and an "under-heard classic."

U.K. music bible Melody Maker hailed the album as "the most sophisticated she's made. The naiveté of "Beautiful People" and the streaks of self-pity have been replaced by deeper, more comprehensive methods of expression."

NME conceded that "this album is... well, it's kind of nice, you know? A trifle over-arranged, and more than a little corny, but very soothing. All in all, possibly the most enjoyable Melanie I've heard, far more mature and purged of many of the more cloying qualities of her earlier stuff."

1972 Track listing

All songs written by Melanie Safka except where noted

  1. "Together Alone"
  2. "Between the Road Signs"
  3. "Summer Weaving"
  4. "My Rainbow Race" (Pete Seeger)
  5. "Do You Believe?"
  6. "I Am Not a Poet (Night Song)"
  7. "Stoneground Words"
  8. "Song of the South, Based on a Theme from Song of the North, Adapted from the Original"
  9. "Maybe I Was (A Golf Ball)"
  10. "Here I Am"

2024 Deluxe Edition Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Here I Am"
  2. "My Rainbow Race"
  3. "Wild Horses" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
  4. "Summer Weaving"
  5. "Between The Road Signs"
  6. "Together Alone"
  7. "Maybe Not For A Lifetime"
  8. "I Am Being Guided"
  9. "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (Randy Newman)
  10. "The Actress"

Disc Two

  1. "Pretty Boy Floyd" (Woody Guthrie)
  2. "Lovers Cross" (Jim Croce)
  3. "Maybe I Was A (Golf Ball)"
  4. "Song Of The South"
  5. "I Am Not A Poet"
  6. "Pine and a Feather"
  7. "Stoneground Words"
  8. "Do You Believe"
  9. "Holding Out"
  10. "Love to Lose Again"
  11. "Here I Am (solo acoustic)"

Personnel

Technical

Charts

Album Charts Peak
position
U.S Billboard Charts 80
U.S Cash Box Charts 37
Australian Charts 69
Canadian Charts 34
Yugoslavian Charts 5
Singles Charts Title Peak
position
U.S Billboard Hot 100 "Together Alone" 86
U.S Cash Box Charts "Together Alone" 57
Canadian Charts "Together Alone" 37
U.S Billboard Bubbling Under Chart "Do You Believe" 115

References

  1. https://www.goldminemag.com/artist-news/melanie-stoneground-words-set-for-deluxe-reissue-in-march
  2. https://www.goldminemag.com/artist-news/melanie-stoneground-words-set-for-deluxe-reissue-in-march
  3. Stoneground Words at AllMusic
  4. https://www.allmusic.com/album/stoneground-words-mw0000839458
  5. https://melaniemusicsociety.tripod.com/STONEGRD.htm
  6. https://melaniemusicsociety.tripod.com/STONEGRD.htm
  7. https://easyaction.co.uk/product/melanie-stoneground-words-deluxe-double-album-version-2x-cd/
  8. "Melanie". Billboard.
  9. https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1973/Cash-Box-1973-02-03.pdf
  10. "Hits of the World" (PDF). Billboard. No. 23 June 1973. p. 75. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
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