Stoneground Words is an album released by Melanie

Melanie Safka

Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as simply Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday" and "Lay Down ".-Early career:...

 in 1972. It contains the singles "Together Alone" and "Do You Believe".

Reviews

Allmusic.com praises the album as "mature, intelligent and ambitious" and an "under-heard classic".

U.K. music bible Melody Maker

Melody Maker

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 hailed the album as "the most sophisticated she's made. The naiveté of "Beautiful People" and the streaks of self pity have been replaced by deeper, more comprehensive methods of expression."

NME

NME

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 conceded that "this album is... well, it's kind of nice, you know? A trifle over-arranged, and more than a little corny, but very soothing. All in all, possibly the most enjoyable Melanie I've heard, far more mature and purged of many of the more cloying qualities of her earlier stuff."

Song listing

1. Together Alone
2. Between The Road Signs
3. Summer Weaving
4. My Rainbow Race (Pete Seeger
   Pete Seeger
   Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...
   
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5. Do You Believe?
6. I Am Not A Poet (Night Song)
7. Stoneground Words
8. Song Of The South
9. Maybe I Was (A Golf Ball)
10. Here I Am

• All songs by Melanie Safka (except where noted)

Charts

Album Charts	Peak position
U.S Charts	80
Australian Charts	69
Canadian Charts	34

Singles Charts	Title	Peak position
U.S Billboard Hot 100	"Together Alone"	86
U.S Cash Box Charts	"Together Alone"	57
Canadian Charts	"Together Alone"	37
U.S Billboard Bubbling Under Chart	"Do You Believe"	115