The
Album:
This CD marks the first ever combination
between Lifesong Records, Grudge Records
and HME Records, creating the best CRACK
THE SKY compilation package to date. In
the first CRACK THE SKY CD released in
1988, two songs were deleted to keep to
the CD time limit that existed at that
time. Those two songs, Mind
Baby and The
Radio Cries are included in this
compilation. I
Lean On You and Dear,
Dear (Both from John Palumbo's
"Innocent Bystander" album)
feature the original members of the band
BADFINGER singing background vocals.
With the political arena heating up,
listen to MR. PRESIDENT. The video for
MR. PRESIDENT won the Houston Film
Critic's Award. Rolling Stone Magazine
called CRACK THE SKY the best new band
in 1975 and the 1978 Rolling Stone
Record Guide compared them to Steely
Dan. The Baltimore
City Paper has named CRACK THE
SKY the "Greatest lost rock &
roll band of all time."
The
Artists:
What do Baltimore, Buffalo, Rochester,
Washington D.C., Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, Atlanta and Richmond have
in common? These are the places that
CRACK THE SKY did truly become
"Rock Stars." The members are
from Weirton, West Virginia, a small
steel town 30 minutes west of
Pittsburgh. This band charted five
albums in Billboard's Top 200 and
opened for some of the most successful
bands of their time. In Baltimore, radio
stations WGRX and WIYY (98ROCK) rank the
group up with regular staples such as
Aerosmith & Led Zeppelin. WGRX Music
Director Lee Geary says, "Requests
still come in regularly and they test
very well." A recent show at the
Recher Theatre in Baltimore brought fans
from as far as Seattle. With The
Best Of The Rest (And Then Some)
listen to what Crack The Sky has been
about.
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