Cracking Under Pressure

Cracking Under Pressure is a 1983 studio album by the Iron City Houserockers. Cracking Under Pressure was the Iron City Houserockers' fourth and final album under the moniker (changed slightly) and also their final album released under MCA. Veterans Ned E. Rankin and Marc Reisman had left the band and in their place was heavy keyboards and synthesizers, as was the style at the time. Also unlike previous albums, Cracking Under Pressure included several cover songs: "Loving Cup" by Earth Quake and "Hit the Road Jack" by Percy Mayfield. The songs "Angels", "Cracking Under Pressure", and "There'll Never be Enough Time" have appeared on several later compilations (and an acoustic version of "Never Be Enough Time" appeared on Grushecky's mid-nineties solo album, "American Babylon"), most of the rest of this album is absent from later compilations and live shows. The band was dropped from MCA Records two days after the album was released, and six months after that - in June 1984 - the band broke up.[1] When the band resurfaced in 1989, it would go by "Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers" - the name by which they still tour today.

Cracking Under Pressure
Studio album by
Iron City Houserockers
ReleasedDecember 1983
Recorded1983
GenreRock
Length41:40
LabelMCA
ProducerMark Dodson
Iron City Houserockers chronology
Blood on the Bricks
(1981)		 Cracking Under Pressure
(1983)		 Pumping Iron & Sweating Steel: The Best of Iron City Houserockers
(1992)

The album has never been issued on CD, but is available as a digital download from Joe Grushecky's official website.[2]

Track listing
  1. "Rock and Roll Heart" (Eddie Britt, Joe Grushecky, Art Nardini) - 3:16
  2. "Loving Cup" (Ken Laguna, Earthquake) - 3:29
  3. "Angels" (Eddie Britt, Joe Grushecky) - 3:36
  4. "Hit the Road Jack" (Percy Mayfield) - 3:12
  5. "American Son" (Joe Grushecky) - 3:53
  6. "Girl Problems" (Joe Grushecky) - 3:36
  7. "Cracking Under Pressure" (Eddie Britt, Joe Grushecky, Art Nardini) - 4:50
  8. "Breaking Point" (Eddie Britt, Joe Grushecky) - 3:37
  9. "Soul Rockin'" (Joe Grushecky) - 3:13
  10. "I Should've Never Let You Go" (Joe Grushecky) - 3:55
  11. "There'll Never be Enough Time" (Joe Grushecky) - 4:46

Personnel
  • Joe Grushecky - lead vocal, guitar
  • Eddie Britt - lead guitar (credited as Eddy Britt)
  • Art Nardini - bass
  • Gil Snyder - keyboards
  • Ron Foster - drums

References
  1. "Rock's So Tough - the Iron City Houserockers". www.shotinthedark.info.
  2. "JOE GRUSHECKY STORE". joegrushecky.com.



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