On disc: Cinderella

 
 Live At The Mohegan Sun
 
- Claudia Ehrhardt -
 
 


 
 Live At The Mohegan Sun
 
- Umberto Mino -
 
 

Live At The Mohegan Sun

(Frontiers - 2009)



 
 

 

Cinderella started way back in the 80's and only were on hiatus in the mod-90's for about a year, but their last studio album has been released in 1994 - Still Climbing. Lately they play live in the USA and there they recorded this album at the Mohegan Sun casino in Conneticut. The album is a kind of best-of featuring all their hits. So the first song is Night Songs which is one of the highlights as it stands for their early days. The band is back with the line-up which made them famous plus keyboarder Gary Corbett who joined them in 2006. Due to adding keyboard the songs get a 70's flair, but also loose a bit of their heaviness.... And fans will know the songs anyway, so no need to talk about single songs.

Cinderella musically presents as usual hard rock with a bluesy edge. And still it's Tom Keifer's voice which will make you love or hate Cinderella. And due to a paralysis of his left vocal chords he had to learn to sing again, but even if he manages quite good, the unique style is more audible now -  and a bit raspier. At Heartbreak Station the lead vocals are partly done by someone else - obviously. And actually that is doing the song good in my opinion. Sure, their fans love to hear Tom Keifer singing, but these days it's a walk on the razor's edge it seems... I liked Cinderella in the past, but nowadays Mr. Keifer's voice is annoying me. The songs are still sounding good, but I personally hope for someone else taking over the mic...



Track list:



Intro

Night Songs

The Last Mile

Somebody Save Me

Heartbreak Station

Coming Home

Shelter Me

Nobody's Fool

Gypsy Road

Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)

Shake Me

Fallin Apart At The Seams

Push Push

Still Climbing


 
 










Claudia Ehrhardt


  
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Live At The Mohegan Sun

(Frontiers - 2009)



 
 

 

Another live album for these Philly rockers, just to remember us once again how good they were..... Honestly a lot of people, including myself, just ask why!!!!

Cinderella were a good band in the days of 'hair metal', led by guitarist / singer Tom Keifer, that made a couple of very nice albums like Night Songs and Long Cold Winter in the late '80's. In the beginning of the '90s their music moved along a bluesy / Southern kind of style (don't forget that Mr Keifer in the late '90s wrote for the Lynyrd Skynyrd too....).

We have this live album, essentially a kind of greatest hits, were it's possible to hear the multi-sides of the Cinderella music: the rock anthems Night Songs and Somebody Save Me, the ballads that touch our hearts like Nobody's Fool and Don't Know What You Got, the hits like Gypsy Road and Shake Me and their Southern side like Still Climbing and Falling Apart At The Seams..... So you can appreciate the whole musical spectrum of this band!!!!!

The most important thing of this Cinderella live album is the presence of underrated songs like Still Climbing, that in this version has a new life!!!!!

An album that I want to recommend to the die-hard fans, and to everyone that hasn't have the chance to hear this band live!!!!!
 
 










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