“Coming Home” by Cinderella

"Coming Home" was the third single Cinderella pulled from Long Cold Winter, their second album, released in 1988: a power ballad built on a 12-string guitar that points the band down a bluesier road than they had traveled before.

Tom Keifer wrote it and sings it, and the credits show how much of the load he carried, with electric, acoustic and steel guitar plus harmonica, alongside Jeff LaBar's electric guitar, Eric Brittingham's bass and Fred Coury's drums. Hired hands filled it out, with Rick Criniti on piano, Hammond and synthesizer, Jay Levine on pedal steel and Paulinho da Costa on percussion, and Andy Johns produced with Keifer and Brittingham. It became a top-20 hit in the US and later turned up on the TV series October Road.

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