Daughtry comes up big on second album

By: Matt Miklas

Posted: 2/23/10

It has been a while since I have been so excited for an artist's second album to be released. However, Daughtry's debut album, "Daughtry," has caused me great excitement.

Daughtry's second album, "Leave This Town," has some of the same elements as his first album. However, this album has a little more of a country feel to it, which is evident in such songs as "Tennessee Line" and "September."

Despite the country overtone that this album has, Daughtry still focuses on the same elements as before, like amazing guitar solos, a great vocal range and catchy lyrics.

The album starts off with a hard rock song called, "You Don't Belong," which is an angry song that Daughtry sings with passion. This song in particular is the only song that I did not like when I first heard it. However, I began to like it more the more often I heard it.

The most interesting song on this album is called "Supernatural." This song is catchy because it does not fit the rest of the album. To me, this song has a more rhythmic beat to it, and it seems like a song that Carlos Santana would write.

Truly, Chris Daughtry is an amazing artist, and in 2005 he should have been the winner of a particular show (but that is a subject for another column). Although I liked this album and I would rank it as being pretty close in caliber to the first album, I would have liked for Daughtry to do a collaboration like the one he did with Slash.

One thing that I found interesting is that Chris Daughtry had a hand in writing every song for this album. In the case of his first album, he only wrote 10 of the 12 songs. Another interesting note about the songwriting for this album is that Chad Kroeger, the lead singer for Nickelback, helped write two of the album's chart-topping songs, "No Surprise" and "Life After You."

All in all, I strongly recommend buying or downloading this album. If you liked Daughtry's first album you will certainly enjoy this one as well, if not more.