3 Doors Down - Away from the Sun

Double vinyl LP pressing. Away From The Sun is the second studio album by American rock band 3 Doors Down, released on November 12, 2002. The singles released for the album were as follows: ""When I'm Gone"", ""The Road I'm On"", ""Here Without You"" and ""Away from the Sun"". The recording sessions took place during the summer of 2002 with producer/engineer Rick Parashar at London Bridge Studios, in Seattle, Washington. The album has sold four million copies worldwide, including well over three million in the US alone. 3 Doors Down formed in 1996. The band rose to international fame with their first single.

Away from the Sun, released in November of 2002, immediately went Gold, and reached Platinum in early January 2003. It's a much more accomplished album than The Better Life, smoothing out most of the rough patches that slowed down the debut. Lead single ""When I'm Gone"" is a muscular blues-rocker that recalls Kenny Wayne Shepherd - it's representative of the album's predominantly mid-tempo arrangements that focus on Arnold's contemplative lyrics. He doesn't proselytize like Creed's Scott Stapp, nor does he rely on obvious nu-metal clichés like Saliva's Joey Scott. Instead, Arnold's lyrics lean more towards the first-person confessional style favored by Southern rock mainstays such as the Allman Brothers or Lynyrd Skynyrd. While Universal/Republic might lump them in with the chest-thumpers and active rock doomsayers, Away from the Sun makes it clear that 3 Doors Down are really more comfortable where the sky is always blue.