Clifton Hill (album)

Clifton Hill
Studio album by Honeymoon Suite
Released	Sept. 23, 2008[1]
Recorded	Dec. 2007 - April 2008 at Catherine North (Hamilton, ON) & Carlisle Post Audio
Genre	Rock
Label	Koch
Producer	Tom Treumuth
Honeymoon Suite chronology
Dreamland (2002) Clifton Hill (2008)

Clifton Hill is an album by Honeymoon Suite released in late 2008. It is the band's newest studio album since 2002.

Background and details

After Honeymoon Suite's original lineup (circa 1984) reunited to tour Canada in the summers of 2007 and 2008, they returned to the studio to record a new album with their original producer and current manager, Tom Tremeuth. The first single released to radio was "Tired O' Waitin' on You".

The album title is an homage to the cluster of tourist attractions on Clifton Hill in the band's hometown of Niagara Falls, Ontario. As guitarist Derry Grehan explained in an interview with The Niagara Falls Review: "I think our best record was The Big Prize, and the new songs were kind of sounding like that. Riffy, simple with big choruses. So with Johnnie and I paying homage to our roots, we thought (for a title) ... 'Lundy's Lane?' No. Trying to find a name for a record after the fact is hard. At one point Clifton Hill came up. I thought it had a nice feel for an album title. Easy to remember. I can't explain it, it just kind of works."^[2]

The photograph used for the album's cover was taken by Russell Harbottle in 1985.^[3]

Track listing

1. "She Ain't Alright" - 3:50
2. "Tired O' Waitin' on You" - 3:02
3. "Riffola" - 3:53
4. "Ordinary" - 3:52
5. "The House" - 4:12
6. "Why Should I?" - 3:35
7. "Down 2 Bizness" - 3:49
8. "Sunday Morning" - 3:51
9. "That's All U Got" - 3:36
10. "Restless" - 3:17
11. "Separate Lives" - 3:33
12. "The Garden" - 3:42

All songs written by Johnnie Dee and Derry Grehan.

Album credits

Personnel

• Johnnie Dee - lead vocals
• Derry Grehan - guitars, background vocals
• Ray Coburn - keyboards
• Chris McNeill - drums
• Stan Mizcek - bass

Production

• Tom Treumuth - producer, mixer
• Corey Barnes - engineer, mixer
• Rob Lamothe - pre-production engineering
• Phil Demetro - mastering at The Lacquer Channel
• Katie Hildreth - album design (with cdexperts.com)
• Deanna Grehan - cover concept

References

• Liner notes from the album.

1. ^ "Koch catalog". http://www.kochcan.com/05_catalogue/info.asp?item=KEC-CD-9646. Retrieved 2009-05-18. 
2. ^ Law, John (2008-10-01). "They've got a new CD now- Cruising Clifton Hill with Honeymoon Suite". The Niagara Falls Review. http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1251565. Retrieved 2009-05-18. 
3. ^ "Original photograph - Clifton Hill looking toward Victoria Avenue". Niagara Falls Public Library. http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?id=97861&b=1. Retrieved 2009-05-18.