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1976 studio album by Steve Gibbons Band

Any Road Up

Studio album by Steve Gibbons Band

Released

1976

Recorded

1975

Studio

Eel Pie, Ramport and Advision Studios, London

Rock, blues, rock and roll, folk, jazz, country, R&B

Length

45:04

MCA in US, Polydor in UK and Germany

Steve Gibbons Band chronology

Any Road Up
(1976)

Rollin' On
(1977)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic

Any Road Up is the debut studio album by The Steve Gibbons Band. The band were under The Who's management stable and this album was released by Polydor in 1976. This was followed by a tour with The Who in the UK, Europe and the United States. Playing arenas, they shared the stage with Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Electric Light Orchestra, The J. Geils Band and Nils Lofgren.

The album failed to chart while the song "Johnny Cool" (based on the film of the same name) reached the Billboard Hot 100, stalling at number 72.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Steve Gibbons

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Take Me Home"	4:04
2.	"Johnny Cool"	3:55
3.	"Rollin'"	5:53
4.	"Spark of Love"	4:14
5.	"Standing on the Bridge"	3:13
6.	"Natural Thing"	4:21
7.	"Speed Kills"	3:33
8.	"Strange World"	5:17
9.	"Sweetheart"	4:20

1993 Reissue Tracks

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Get up and Dance"	3:15
2.	"Little Suzie"	2:59

1997 Reissue Tracks

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Back Street Cat"
2.	"Dick Malone"

Personnel

The Steve Gibbons Band

Steve Gibbons - guitar, lead vocals
Trevor Burton - bass guitar, lead guitar, vocals
Dave Carroll - lead guitar, vocals
Bob Lamb - drums
Bob Wilson - lead guitar, keyboards, vocals

with:

John Entwistle - bass guitar, backing vocals

Technical

Anton Matthews - associate producer, Advison Studios
Ken Laguna - remixing, Advision Studios; additional instrumentation
John Entwistle - mixing, Ramport Studios
Terry O'Neill - photography

References

"Any Road up - Steve Gibbons | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
Cat# 2383 381 on Discogs.com
Steve Gibbons (musician)
"Album Search for "any road up"". AllMusic.

External links

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