Heartbreak Station

Infobox Album |
Name = Heartbreak Station
Type = studio
Artist = Cinderella


Released = November 20, 1990
Recorded = 1990
Genre = Blues-rock, hard rock
Length = 53:22
Label = Mercury
Producer = John Jansen & Tom Keifer
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ttxuak1k5m3k link]
Last album = "Long Cold Winter"
(1988)
This album = "Heartbreak Station"
(1990)
Next album = "Live Train to Heartbreak Station"
(1991)

Heartbreak Station is Cinderella's third studio album, released in 1990 through Mercury Records. It hit #19 in the US and went platinum for selling a million albums there the same year. But while the band's two previous efforts, "Night Songs" and "Long Cold Winter", had both gone double platinum and reaching triple during the 1990s, and had each landed in the US top ten while featuring a US top 20 hit, "Heartbreak Station" achieved none of these things. This is probably because the band abandoned their Def Leppard influence completely, and devoted itself to gritty, boozy rock'n'roll in the vein of Deep Purple, Humble Pie and Mott the Hoople, while "Long Cold Winter" had retained some of the pop-metal slickness of "Night Songs" while still diving into Rolling Stones-like territory. This seems to be the reason for its relative commercial disappointment, while at the same time is the reason for its many good reviews, which name it the best of Cinderella's classic albums (check the allmusic review for example). The album featured two singles, which were "Shelter Me", hitting #36 in the US, and the title track, which made #44.

Track listing

All songs are written by Tom Keifer, except for "Love's Got Me Doin' Time", which was split between him and Eric Brittingham.

#"The More Things Change" – 4:22
#"Love's Got Me Doin' Time" – 5:19
#"Shelter Me" – 4:47
#"Heartbreak Station" – 4:28
#"Sick for the Cure" – 3:59
#"One for Rock and Roll" – 4:29
#"Dead Man's Road" – 6:38
#"Make Your Own Way" – 4:15
#"Electric Love" – 5:23
#"Love Gone Bad" – 4:20
#"Winds of Change" – 5:24

Album credits

*Tom Keifer - lead vocals, Guitar, Dobro, Mandolin, Piano
*Eric Brittingham - Bass
*Jeff LaBar - Guitar
*Fred Coury - drums, Percussion, backing Vocals

Other musicians:
*The Memphis Horns: Andrew Love saxophone, Dennis Ruello baritone saxophone, Wayne Jackson trumpet
*Jay Levin - steel guitar
*Jay Davidson - saxophone, piano
*Ken Hensley - organ
*Rod Roddy - keyboards
*Brian O'Neal - keyboards
*Rick Criniti - keyboards
*Bashiri Johnson - percussion
*Roy McDonald - programming
*Elaine Foster, Sharon Foster, Tara Pellerin, Carla Benson, Evette Benton, Curtis King, Brenda King, Tawatha Agee, Eric Troyer - backing vocals

Studio crew: Bobby Schumann - Guitars, J. Harman - Drums

*Produced by John Jansen and Tom Keifer
*Engineered by Gary Lyons

Other

Little Richard played a preacher in the video of "Shelter Me".