Heartbreak Station

Heartbreak Station
Studio album by Cinderella
Publication (s)	November 20, 1990
Label (s)	Phonogram
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	Hard rock , glam metal
Title (number)	11
running time	53:22
occupation	Vocals , guitar : Tom Keifer Guitar : Jeff LaBar Bass : Eric Brittingham Drums : Fred Coury
production	John Jansen, Tom Keifer
Studio (s)	Bearsville Studios, Kajem Studios, House Of Music, Studio In The Country
chronology Long Cold Winter (1988) Heartbreak Station Still Climbing (1994)

Heartbreak Station is the title of the third studio album released in 1990 by the American hard rock / blues rock band Cinderella . It is the last album that drummer Fred Coury was involved in creating .

background

The Cinderella album Long Cold Winter reached the top ten on the Billboard charts in the USA in 1988 and made it to number 24 in Germany. The album had been awarded two platinum awards in the year it was released in the US .

Guitarist and singer Tom Keifer wrote all of the songs for the recording of Heartbreak Station , bassist Eric Brittingham only took part in The More Things Change. The majority of all instruments used were also played by Tom Keifer, including resonator guitar , acoustic and electric slide guitar , mandolin and mandoloncello , Hawaiian guitar , and piano . The group was also joined by guest musicians Bobby Schumann ( guitar ), J. Harman ( drums ), Jay Davidson ( saxophone ), Memphis Horns , Brian O'Neill and Ken Hensley ( organ , piano), Rick Criniti (keyboards), Jay Levin ( Pedal steel guitar ), and Bashiri Johnson ( percussion ) assisted. The strings - Arrangements for the song Heartbreak Station took John Paul Jones ( Led Zeppelin ).

The album was released on November 20, 1990, when singles the songs were Heartbreak Station and Shelter Me decoupled.

During the tour for this album vocalist Tom Keifer one suffered neurologically -related paralysis ( paresis ) of the laryngeal muscles . The tour had to be canceled and the recordings for the follow-up album Still Climbing were delayed until 1994.

Track list

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Heartbreak Station   DE 34 December 10, 1990 (15 weeks)   US 19th 12/22/1990 (32 weeks)   UK 36 December 01, 1990 (2 weeks)

Singles

Shelter Me   US 36 02/02/1990 (13 weeks) Heartbreak Station   US 44 04/27/1991 (11 weeks)   UK 63 04/27/1991 (1 week)

Heartbreak Station
No.	title	Songwriter	length
1.	The More Things Change	Tom Keifer , Eric Brittingham	4:21
2.	Love's Got Me Doin 'Time	Tom Keifer	5:20
3.	Shelter Me	Tom Keifer	4:50
4th	Heartbreak Station	Tom Keifer	4:27
5.	Sick for the cure	Tom Keifer	3:39
6th	One for Rock & Roll	Tom Keifer	4:28
7th	Dead Man's Road	Tom Keifer	6:38
8th.	Make your own way	Tom Keifer	4:17
9.	Electric love	Tom Keifer	5:24
10.	Love gone bad	Tom Keifer	4:23
11.	Winds of Change	Tom Keifer	5:35
Overall length:			53:22

reception

Heartbreak Station reached number 19 on the US charts and was awarded a gold record on January 28, 1991 . It reached platinum status on February 26, 1991 (1,000,000 units sold). In Great Britain the album reached number 36 and in Germany number 34 in the respective charts.

Thomas Kupfer wrote for Rock Hard that the band had already indicated with Long Cold Winter that they wanted to “focus more on rhythm and blues influences”. This development continued with Heartbreak Station , but the band “missed the spontaneity of earlier days”. Nevertheless, the album was "more atmospheric than the previous albums". The “mega-ballad” Heartbreak Station or “the rather cautious beginning” Shelter Me were cited as examples. Nevertheless, the LP lacks “the decisive kick”, which could be due to the fact that “as a Central European with typical American musical styles such as soul , country and rhythm & blues, experience has shown that it is quite difficult”. Copper awarded seven points.

Web links

• Official Cinderella website
• Heartbreak Station at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] RIAA awards database
2. ↑ Booklet of the album
3. ↑ Cinderella: Completed roller coaster ride, interview with Tom Keifer , Classic Rock online, accessed October 1, 2019
4. ↑ Charts US , Charts UK , Charts DE
5. ↑ Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards database , accessed September 30, 2019
6. ↑ Rock Hard, Issue 46, December 14, 1990