Thoroughfare Gap
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Publication |
September 1978 |
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
35:32 min |
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Stephen Stills , Ron Albert, Howard Albert |
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Studio (s) |
Criteria Studios-Miami (Florida), The Record Plant-Los Angeles and The Record Plant-Sausalito (California). |
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Thoroughfare Gap is the seventh solo - studio album by the American musician Stephen Stills . It was released in September 1978 as his third and final album for Columbia Records . The album reached number 83 on the Billboard 200 chart.
The album features five tracks that Stills recorded in a disco style, including the single Can't Get No Booty , You Can't Dance Alone and We Will Go On . In the latter piece and in the song Beaucoup Yumbo , Stills also deals with his - already crumbling - marriage to the French singer-songwriter Véronique Sanson . The marriage ended in divorce in 1979.
The album also contains cover versions of Midnight Rider and the Buddy Holly classic Not Fade Away . Among the better-known pieces of the album is one of Thoroughfare Gap , a folk - Country number, sings in the stills of a life as a train ride through the vastness of America. This piece was also released on the Crosby, Stills & Nash 4-CD box CSN (1991), which included the group's biggest hits as well as a best-of selection of solo artists. In addition to longtime musical accompanists such as Joe Lala (percussion), Mike Finnigan (piano, keyboard) and Joe Vitale (drums), Andy Gibb can be heard as a guest singer on the album .
The album received controversial reviews in reviews. While the allmusic guide called it a bad attempt by Stills to adapt to dance and disco music and described the cover versions as "lame", the contemporary review by Billboard magazine praised Stills' singing and guitar. There his lyrics and the cover versions also met with approval. The album was less successful than Stills' previous studio albums and his releases with Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young): Last year, the album CSN (not to be confused with the 1991 compilation of the same name) reached number 2 in the charts. The relative unsuccessfulness of Thoroughfare Gap meant that Stills did not release another solo record until 1984. The album is no longer published by Columbia, but is still available as a 2-CD set (with his other two Columbia albums Stills and Illegal Stills , which are together on the first CD).
Track list
- "You Can't Dance Alone" (stills) - 4:14
- "Thoroughfare Gap" (stills) - 3:31
- "We Will Go On" (stills) - 2:41
- "Beaucoup Yumbo" (Stephen Stills / Joe Vitale) - 3:33
- "What's the Game" (stills) - 3:32
- "Midnight Rider" ( Gregg Allman ) - 3:39
- "Woman Lleva" (Stills) - 3:13
- "Lowdown" (stills) - 3:46
- "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly / Norman Petty) - 3:26
- "Can't Get No Booty" ( Danny Kortchmar / Stephen Stills) - 3:44
Web links
- Collection of all reviews of Stephen Stills albums in Billboard magazine (English) on suitelorraine.com (web archive)
- Thoroughfare Gap at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart position (English) on allmusic.com
- ↑ Jacques Pessis (Éd.), Chronique de la chanson française , Trélissac: Éditions Chronique 2002, p. 189.
- ↑ a b Short info on the album at allmusic.com and a review by James Chrispell
- ↑ Billboard magazine, reviews of all stills albums ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See Dave Zimmer / Henry Diltz , Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography , 3rd A., Da Capo Press: 2008, p. 303.
