Crack the Sky

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

The label can still be found here: https://www.americanoriginalscds.com/lifesong.htm

I don't think that means much. The website has not been updated in long enough that I'm still seeing "Adobe Flash is no longer supported" errors.

[interbellum]

Quote Originally Posted by interbellum View Post
The label can still be found here: https://www.americanoriginalscds.com/lifesong.htm

I don't think that means much. The website has not been updated in long enough that I'm still seeing "Adobe Flash is no longer supported" errors.

I guess that makes sense. But visiting the site gives you an idea of what was released back then.

[Mark Newman]

Crack the Sky are scheduled to play a number of dates in the coming months:

7-26-24 Fallston Barrel House, Fallston, MD
8-23-24 Eagle Crest Concerts at Hudson Fields, Milton, DE
9-12-24 Music Box Supper Club, Cleveland, OH
9-14-24 The Oaks Theater, Oakmont, PA
9-27-24 Club 66, Edgewood, MD
11-1-24 Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis, MD
11-2-24 Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis, MD
11-3-24 Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis, MD

Tickets here:
https://crackthesky.net/events/

[interbellum]

Crack the Sky are scheduled to play a number of dates in the coming months:

7-26-24 Fallston Barrel House, Fallston, MD
8-23-24 Eagle Crest Concerts at Hudson Fields, Milton, DE
9-12-24 Music Box Supper Club, Cleveland, OH
9-14-24 The Oaks Theater, Oakmont, PA
9-27-24 Club 66, Edgewood, MD
11-1-24 Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis, MD
11-2-24 Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis, MD
11-3-24 Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis, MD

Tickets here:
https://crackthesky.net/events/

This post tells us the old website https://www.crackthesky.com/ isn't up to date anymore. I had my doubts about the old side when the store didn't function well.

[interbellum]

https://crackthesky.net/events/ mentions a couple of more shows, including a return to the Recher.

I finally got myself a copy of From The Wood, the semi-acoustic CTS. At first listening I was more or less confirmed in my prejudice that I wouldn't like it that much, because I was missing the twin-guitars, the at times symphonic keyboard-patterns and the Gilmouresk guitarsolo's. But after giving it a few more listens including one with the headphones on I must say this is old-fashioned CTS in lyrics, arrangements etc. but this time with other instruments. It's like an acoustic White Music. Yeah, glad I bought it.

[interbellum]

One of the track on From The Wood, Don't Close Your Eyes, was written by John Palumbo in 1988 for the glamhardrockers Kix. Crack The Sky turned the power ballad into an Americana-like tearjerker.

Here's the original by Kix:



Here's the new version:



The CD contains a more stripped down version of the track as one of the two bonuscuts.

[interbellum]

A friend of John Palumbo was able to re-release a couple of CTS-albums on well produced CDR's on the label It's About Music.com. That way I bought Photoflamingo, World In Motion 1 and The End. But that was suddenly stopped when Palumbo didn't allow those releases anymore. Just before that I was offered to get Blowing Up Detroit (featuring Happy The Man's Stan Whitaker on guitar on some tracks), but I regretfully didn't bite....
So it looks like Iconoclassic isn't the first who hadn't success with the CTS-discography.

Read the review below: https://www.discogs.com/label/68388-...usiccom?page=1