Artist: CINDERELLA
Album: LONG COLD WINTER (CD)

Year: 1988
EAN/UPS: 0042283461222
Media type: CD

Long Cold Winter is Cinderella's second album. It featured the #12 US hit "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)", which was to be Cinderella's biggest hit, as well as further hits, "The Last Mile" (US #36), "Coming Home" (US #20) and the classic "Gypsy Road", which hit #51 in the US a full year after the release of the album itself. The album got to #10 in the US, which was initially a minor disappointment compared to Night Songs' #3, though it did go double-platinum (2 million albums sold) in the US by the end of the year, just as Night Songs had done. It soon became apparent that Cinderella's star hadn't faded the least with both albums going triple platinum in the 1990s.

With Long Cold Winter, Cinderella started to move away from the glam metal-territory of their previous album and into a more classic rock direction, akin to early 70's Rolling Stones, Humble Pie and Deep Purple. Still retaining elements of their Def Leppard-like past, Long Cold Winter 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 the 1990s Heartbreak Station album.

All songs written by Tom Keifer, except “If You Don't Like It” (Tom Keifer/Eric Brittingham).

TRACKLIST:

"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

LINE-UP:

Tom Keifer - vocals, guitar, harmonica
Eric Brittingham - bass
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