Cracking Under Pressure

Cracking Under Pressure
Cracking Under Pressure
Studio album by Iron City Houserockers
Released 1983
Recorded 1983
Genre Rock
Length 41:40
Label MCA
Producer Mark Dodson
Iron City Houserockers chronology
Blood on the Bricks
(1981)
Cracking Under Pressure
(1983)

Cracking Under Pressure is a studio album by the Iron City Houserockers. Cracking Under Pressure was the Iron City Houserockers' fourth and final album under the moniker (changed slightly) and also their final album released under MCA. Veterans Ned E. Rankin and Marc Reisman had left the band and in their place was heavy keyboards and synthesizers, as was the style at the time. Also unlike previous albums, Cracking Under Pressure included several cover songs: "Loving Cup" by Earth Quake and "Hit the Road Jack" by Percy Mayfield. The songs "Angels", "Cracking Under Pressure", and "There'll Never be Enough Time" have appeared on several later compilations (and an acoustic version of "Never Be Enough Time" appeared on Grushecky's mid-nineties solo album, "American Babylon"), most of the rest of this album is absent from later CDs and live shows. The band was dropped from MCA Records two days after the album was released, and six months after that - in June 1984 - the band broke up[1]. When the band resurfaced years later it would go by Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers. The album has never been issued on CD. As of October 2009, Cracking Under Pressure is available for purchase from Joe Grushecky's website in 128kbps MP3 format, including as a bonus track the 1984 single Goodbye Steeltown that was previously only released in CD format on Pumping Iron & Sweating Steel: The Best of the Iron City Houserockers.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Rock and Roll Heart" (Eddie Britt, Joe Grushecky, Art Nardini) - 3:16
  2. "Loving Cup" (Ken Laguna, Earthquake) - 3:29
  3. "Angels" (Eddie Britt, Joe Grushecky) - 3:36
  4. "Hit the Road Jack" (Percy Mayfield) - 3:12
  5. "American Son" (Joe Grushecky) - 3:53
  6. "Girl Problems" (Joe Grushecky) - 3:36
  7. "Cracking Under Pressure" (Eddie Britt, Joe Grushecky, Art Nardini) - 4:50
  8. "Breaking Point" (Eddie Britt, Joe Grushecky) - 3:37
  9. "Soul Rockin'" (Joe Grushecky) - 3:13
  10. "I Should've Never Let You Go" (Joe Grushecky) - 3:55
  11. "There'll Never be Enough Time" (Joe Grushecky) - 4:46

Personnel

  • Joe Grushecky - lead vocal, guitar
  • Eddie Britt - lead guitar (credited as Eddy Britt)
  • Art Nardini - bass
  • Gil Snyder - keyboards
  • Ron Foster - drums

References

  1. ^ http://www.shotinthedark.info/houserockers/Pressure.html Rock's So Tough - Iron City Houserockers

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