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Still Climbing is the fourth and final studio album by the American rock band Cinderella, released on November 8, 1994 by Mercury Records. The release of Still Climbing was delayed due to Tom Keifer losing his voice in 1991.[2][3]

Still Climbing
Studio album by Cinderella
Released	November 8, 1994[1]
Recorded	1994
Studio	Kajem (Gladwyne) Devonshire (Los Angeles)
Genre	Hard rock blues rock glam metal
Length	53:27
Label	Mercury
Producer	Duane Baron, John Purdell, Tom Keifer
Cinderella chronology
Heartbreak Station (1990) Still Climbing (1994)

The album peaked at No. 178 on the Billboard 200.[4]

Production

"Talk Is Cheap" first appeared during a Cinderella show in 1987, although the version on the album is longer than the original, with slower vocals. "Freewheelin" was an older song that had been written and demoed by the band in 1985, prior to the recording of their first album.^{[citation needed]} "Hot & Bothered" had first appeared on Wayne's World: Music from the Motion Picture.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Calgary Herald	C[5]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	7/10[6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[7]
Entertainment Weekly	B[8]
The Indianapolis Star	[9]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[10]

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called Still Climbing "a strong comeback."[7] AllMusic deemed it "a gritty record that shows them building upon the bluesy hard rock of Heartbreak Station."[1] The Morning Call described the songs as "glossy blues- and pop-oriented heavy metal."[11]

The Hamilton Spectator wrote: "While the music's hot, the messages are not. Keifer has simply run out of things to say aside from the coming-of-youth wisdom of 'The Road's Still Long'."[12] The Indianapolis Star wrote that the songs "are 90 percent chorus ('Hot & Bothered' and 'Freewheelin') - and not even particularly creative ones at that; they're just repetitive phrases that might manage to come off well with a concert crowd."[9]

Track listing

All songs are written by Tom Keifer, except "The Road's Still Long" by Keifer and Andy Johns, and "Hot & Bothered" by Keifer and Eric Brittingham.

Personnel

Cinderella

• Tom Keifer – vocals, guitar, piano, co–producer
• Jeff LaBar – guitar
• Eric Brittingham – bass

Additional musicians

• Kenny Aronoff – drums
• Fred Coury – drums on "Hot & Bothered"
• John Purdell – Hammond B3, piano, percussion, backing vocals
• Jay Davidson – tenor and baritone saxophones (tracks 2, 9)
• Steve Jankowski – trumpet and trombonium (track 2)
• Rosanna McNamara – fiddle/violin (track 4)
• Gary Corbett – keyboards (track 11)
• Annette Hardeman, Charlene Holloway – backing vocals (tracks 4 to 6)
• Luana Norman – backing vocals (track 10)
• Carla Benson, Evette Benton – backing vocals (track 11)

Production

• Duane Baron, John Purdell – producers, engineers, mixing at Unique Recording, New York
• Brian Stover, Eric Gobel – assistant engineers
• George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York

Charts

References

На других языках

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[de] Still Climbing

Still Climbing ist der Titel des 1994 erschienenen vierten und letzten Studioalbums der US-amerikanischen Hard Rock/Bluesrock-Band Cinderella.

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- [en] Still Climbing (Cinderella album)

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[es] Still Climbing

Still Climbing es el cuarto álbum de la banda estadounidense de hard rock Cinderella, publicado en 1994. Musicalmente, siguió los pasos del álbum anterior, Heartbreak Station, con un estilo similar al de bandas como The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses y Humble Pie.[1] Lamentablemente, canales como MTV, que eran importantes para promocionar nuevos lanzamientos, estaban más enfocados en la música grunge, por lo que el impacto del disco no fue el deseado.[2] Los sencillos del disco fueron "Bad Attitude Shuffle", "Hard To Find Words" y "Hot And Bothered".

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[ru] Still Climbing

Still Climbing — четвёртый и последний студийный альбом американской хард-рок-группы Cinderella. Выпущен в 1994 на студии Mercury Records. Выход альбома был осложнён тем, что, начиная с 1991 года Том Кейфер испытывал проблемы с голосом[1].

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