Innocence & Danger by The Neal Morse Band

NMB are releasing their much-anticipated fourth album, “Innocence & Danger”, on 27th August 2021. The band comprise Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Randy George, Bill Hubauer & Eric Gillette.

With NMB’s previous two releases being concept albums, it’s perhaps remarkable that “Innocence & Danger” is a series of unrelated songs, but drummer Mike Portnoy says “After two sprawling back to back double concept albums in a row, it was refreshing to get back to writing a collection of unrelated individual songs in the vein of our first album.” Six years on from “The Grand Experiment”, Morse is more enthusiastic than ever about the talents and contribution of his fellow band members on “Innocence & Danger”: “The band is really so extraordinary – and is such an amazing team: Mike’s drums are huge, Randy’s bass playing is an ever-solid foundation and Eric’s vocals are becoming crazy good now: often I’ll sing the verse, Eric sings the chorus, Bill sings the bridge and Eric will bring it home. It seems to work really, really well. And both Bill and Eric’s soloing is amazing: they have really hit it out of the park on this record.”

Tracklist

1.	Do It All Again	8:53

2.	Bird On A Wire	7:23

3.	Your Place In The Sun	4:12

4.	Another Story To Tell	4:50

5.	The Way It Had To Be	7:14

6.	Emergence	3:12

7.	Not Afraid, Pt. 1	4:54

8.	Bridge Over Troubled Water	8:08

9.	Not Afraid, Pt. 2	19:30

10.	Beyond The Years	31:23

Credits

released September 11, 2020

Line-Up:
Neal Morse (vocals, keyboards, guitar)
Mike Portnoy (drums, vocals)
Randy George (bass)
Bill Hubauer (organ, piano, synths, vocals)
Eric Gillette (lead & rhythm guitar, vocals)

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