Before Nightfall is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Robert Francis, released on October 9, 2009, by Atlantic Records. It was released in 2009 with "Junebug" as lead single, followed by "Keep On Running". Both were also released as video clips. Before Nightfall is Francis' first album on a major label. In an interview with Redefine magazine, Francis said that darkness was a major theme on the album.
Before Nightfall is a different animal than Robert Francis' debut, whose rich production and pastoral songwriting took the songwriter an entire year to complete. Nowhere is that difference more pronounced than on "One by One," a nostalgic track that makes an appearance on both albums in radically different versions. The result is a grounded, no-frills album, sometimes sweeping in scope - the falsetto-filled choruses of "Junebug" and "Keep on Running" are wonderful - but always reminiscent of a live recording.
Robert Francis makes the leap on his impressive sophomore album, Before Nightfall. He punctuates this overt stylistic morphing on the title track from 2007’s One By One which appears here sounding much different, now void of any country tinges and echoing hints of Bruce Springsteen’s I’m On Fire, with the darkened piano parts and that lone drumstick keeping time on the snare’s rim. The only vestige of twang appears on the pensive ballad Climb a Mountain where Francis’ family friend Ry Cooder lends some of his gauzy slide-guitar
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Before Nightfall is Francis' first album on a major label Critical reception. Club's Marc Hawthorne found producer Sardy's presence intruding, writing, "he and have given his music a sheen that adds too much distance between performer and listener. Michael Hann at The Guardian felt the album's.
