NIGHT SONGS - Barry Manilow

Personnel: Barry Manilow (piano).Audio Mixer: Bill Schnee.Liner Note Author: Barry Manilow.Recording information: Ignited Now Studios, Los Angeles, CA; O'Henry Studio, Burbank, CA; Peppertree Studios, Palm Springs, CA.Photographer: Gregg Segal.Arranger: Barry Manilow.In 2011 Barry Manilow delivered his first set of original pop songs since 2001, and the resulting shape-shifting and ambitious 15 Minutes, a concept album about the pitfalls of fame that found the music legend crooning, swearing, and occasionally rapping over some of the riskiest (for Barry Manilow) work he had done in years, earned him as many critical kudos as it did quizzical looks. Having exorcized that particular ghost, Manilow decided to return to the nostalgia-based material that dominated the majority of the decade prior, and the intimate and reliable Night Songs, for better or for worse, is the kind of Manilow outing that should please listeners who prefer albums like 2010's Greatest Love Songs of All Time to more