Long cold winter
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August 1988 |
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November 1987 to June 1988 |
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10 |
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43:51 |
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Andy Johns , Tom Keifer, Eric Brittingham |
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Studio (s) |
Bearsville Studios, Kajem Studios |
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Long Cold Winter is the second studio album by the American hard rock / blues rock band Cinderella , released in 1987 .
background
After the group had been very successful with their debut album Night Songs in 1986 (No. 3 on the Billboard 200 , three singles in the US singles charts , and a gold record after a US tour as the opening act for Bon Jovi ), the band left In 1988 again with producer Andy Johns in the studio to record the follow-up album.
Johns, known for his work as a sound engineer for Led Zeppelin , had already produced the debut album . In addition to Johns, singer Tom Keifer and bassist Eric Brittingham also took part in the production work. The band was reinforced for the recordings again by a keyboardist: Rick Crinitti played Hammond B3 , piano and synthesizer and contributed to the background vocals . The list of drummers who supported Fred Coury as guest musicians was particularly remarkable : Cozy Powell and Denny Carmassi were involved in the recordings. Powell had been suggested by Coury, who was working in a recording studio for the first time. Other guest musicians were Kurt Shore ( keyboards ), Jay Levin ( steel guitar ), Paulinho da Costa (percussion) and John Webster (keyboards). Webster had already supported the band on Night Songs .
All the songs, with the exception of If You Don't Like It, were written by Tom Keifer, and If You Don't Like It was written with Eric Brittingham. As with Night Songs , the recordings took place in the Bearsville Studios and the Kajem Studios, the sound mixing also took place in the Bearsville Studios.
Track list
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| 1. | Bad Seamstress Blues / Fallin 'Apart at the Seams | Tom Keifer | 5:23 |
| 2. | Gypsy Road | Tom Keifer | 4:05 |
| 3. | Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) | Tom Keifer | 5:56 |
| 4th | The last mile | Tom Keifer | 3:25 |
| 5. | Second wind | Tom Keifer | 3:57 |
| 6th | Long cold winter | Tom Keifer | 5:22 |
| 7th | If you don't like it | Tom Keifer, Eric Brittingham | 4:13 |
| 8th. | Coming home | Tom Keifer | 4:55 |
| 9. | Fire and Ice | Tom Keifer | 3:19 |
| 10. | Take me back | Tom Keifer | 3:16 |
| Overall length: | 43:51 | ||
reception
Long Cold Winter was awarded gold and platinum records on September 9, 1988 for more than one million albums sold. In November of the same year there was double platinum and on January 23, 1997 the group received the triple platinum award for the album.
Holger Stratmann wrote for Rock Hard in a review of the album that he considered the band to be a “pushed up, mediocre poser troupe ” that “had next to nothing to offer besides two or three acceptable songs” and “with a superimposed image, levelless Videos and the help of a Bon Jovi has become a million seller ”. His opinion of the band "has changed fundamentally anyway." The reason is "the second, so inconspicuous LP" Long Cold Winter . Musically, the group has become “more honest, more original and above all better”. Long Cold Winter is “a surprisingly strong rock'n'roll album, rough, unpolished, powerful, but still melodious. Traditional sounds and a huge pinch of blues "would convey an attitude towards life that" can only be achieved in this pure form by bands like AC / DC ". The album is "exactly the right soundtrack to experience the sunset on a Mississippi steamer with a bottle of Southern Comfort". What sets the album apart is “the fact that this band of all people succeeded in writing ten good to very good songs that sometimes contained first-class, anything but clichéd choruses”. Singer Tom Keifer already had “a lot of feeling in the rough voice” on the last LP, now “the right pieces for it” have been written. Titles like Fallin 'Apart At The Seams , The Last Mile , Long Cold Winter or Coming Home would have been floating around in the author's head for days. His conclusion: "A strong LP".
In the August issue of the magazine Metal Hammer was Long Cold Winter 1988 album of the month.
In 2014, the album was ranked 84 on the list the 100 best metal and hard rock albums of all time of Rolling Stone .
Web links
- Official Cinderella website
- Long Cold Winter at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b booklet of the CD
- ↑ Oliver Klemm: Cinderella. The second part of the fairy tale . In: Metal Hammer / Crash . International hard rock & heavy metal poster magazine. June 1988, p. 120 f .
- ↑ Charts US , Charts UK , Charts DE
- ^ RIAA awards database
- ↑ Holger Stratmann in: Rock Hard, Issue 28 (1988)
- ↑ Metal Hammer, issue 8.1988, page 47
- ↑ http://www.rollingstone.de/die-100-besten-metal-und-hardrock-alben-aller-zeiten-363764/