Iron City Houserockers - 3 albums

The Iron City Houserockers were an American rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, led by singer/guitarist Joe Grushecky, that existed from 1976 until 1984. Lumped into the heartland rock genre, critically praised but commercially unsuccessful, the band's fans view them as one of the great "shoulda-beens" in the history of rock and roll. Started in 1976 as the Brick Alley Band by Grushecky, a high school special education teacher in Pittsburgh, the band was a fairly typical bar band, distinguished by Grushecky's taut, focused songs about life in the open hearth and a distinctive, harmonica-and-guitar driven sound owing much to the Rolling Stones, but which seemed to borrow a lot of the thrashy fury of punk rock. Released in 1979, their debut album Love's So Tough suffered from rough, cheap-sounding production but showcased the potential of the band's sound. "Dance With Me" and "I Can't Take It" were viewed as standout cuts. Rolling Stone Magazine featured the album as its showcase review with the headline "New American Classic." The band's follow-up album Have A Good Time But Get Out Alive! is recognized by many as a classic [1]: raw and impassioned, it is not a perfect album, but its flaws are both fascinating and much less than the sum of the high points. The tandem tavern-set tracks "Old Man Bar" and "Junior's Bar" were especially praised. Production was credited to Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson, although much of the album was produced by an uncredited Steven Van Zandt. The Houserockers' third album, Blood on the Bricks, is a bit more restrained, but a lot richer and more consistent; for the first time, Grushecky's ballads measure up to his faster anthems. Produced by American soul-rock legend Steve Cropper, the album crackles with restrained intensity. The 1983 edition Rolling Stone Record Guide praised it as the band's best album, although it had good marks for all of them. Here's the 3 albums i vinyl rips, processed to eliminate noise. Enjoy, please comment and seed.

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