“Long Cold Winter” by Cinderella

The title song from Cinderella's second album, "Long Cold Winter" came out with the record on Mercury in July 1988, and it's Tom Keifer's show from top to bottom. Keifer wrote the words and the music, sings lead, and handles electric and acoustic guitar, harmonica and steel guitar, with Jeff LaBar on the other electric guitar, Eric Brittingham on bass and backing vocals and Fred Coury on drums.

The credit sheet runs long for a glam metal band: Cozy Powell and Denny Carmassi add drums, Paulinho da Costa percussion, Jay Levine pedal steel and Rick Criniti Hammond organ, piano and synthesizer, with Kurt Shore and John Webster on keyboards. Andy Johns engineered it and produced alongside Keifer and Brittingham, and Michael Barbiero and Steve Thompson mixed. All that harmonica and steel promises something dustier than the usual hairspray fare.

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