Long Cold Winter

Infobox Album |
Name = Long Cold Winter
Type = studio
Artist = Cinderella


Released = July 5, 1988
Recorded =
Genre = Hard rock, blues-rock
Length = 43:51
Label = Mercury
Producer = Andy Johns
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rgue4jo70wa4 link]
Last album = "Night Songs"
(1986)
This album = "Long Cold Winter"
(1988)
Next album = "Heartbreak Station"
(1990)

"Long Cold Winter" is Cinderella's second studio album, released in 1988 through Mercury Records. It reached #10 in the US, which was initially a minor disappointment compared to "Night Songs"' at #3, though it did go double-platinum for selling 2 million copies in the US by the end of the year, just as "Night Songs" had done. It soon became apparent that the band's stardom hadn't faded the least with both albums going triple platinum in the 1990s.

The album features four singles, which were all hits in the US. "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)", which was to be Cinderella's highest-charting single, reached #12, "The Last Mile", reached #36, "Coming Home" reached #20, and the classic "Gypsy Road" hit #51 a full year after the release of the album itself.

With "Long Cold Winter", Cinderella started to move away from the glam metal-territory of their previous album and into a more blues-rock direction, akin to early 70's Rolling Stones, Humble Pie and Deep Purple. Still retaining elements of their past sound, the album is widely seen as the representative sound of Cinderella, bridging a gap between their pop-metal beginnings to that of their later styles, represented by their following album, "Heartbreak Station".

Track listing

All songs are written by Tom Keifer, except for "If You Don't Like It", which is split between him and Eric Brittingham.

# "Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams" - 5:19
# "Gypsy Road" - 3:55
# "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)" - 5:54
# "The Last Mile" - 3:51
# "Second Wind" - 3:59
# "Long Cold Winter" - 5:24
# "If You Don't Like It" - 4:10
# "Coming Home" - 4:56
# "Fire and Ice" - 3:22
# "Take Me Back" - 3:17

Credits

* Tom Keifer - vocals, various electric, acoustic, and steel guitars, harmonica
* Eric Brittingham - bass, backing vocals
* Jeff LaBar - guitar
* Fred Coury - drums

Additional personnel

* Jay Levin - steel guitar
* Rick Criniti - piano, organ, synthesizer
* Kurt Shore - keyboards
* John Webster - keyboards
* Cozy Powell - drums
* Denny Carmassi - drums
* Paulinho Da Costa - percussion
*Produced By Cinderella & Andy Johns
*Mixed By Steve Thompson, Michael Barbiero & George Cowan
*Engineered By Thom Cadley, Ryan Dorn & Andy Johns

Trivia

"Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)" was featured in an episode of the TV series "South Park", "Raisins".The song was also used on a Domino's Pizza commercial in 2007.