Caravan Tonight

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Caravan Tonight
Steven Grossman 'Caravan Tonight' album front cover.jpg
Studio album by
Steven Grossman
Released1974
RecordedDecember 1973 7 January 1974 at Sound Ideas Studios N.Y.C
Genre Folk rock
Label Mercury
Producer Bobby Flax & Lanny Lambert for Very Very Productions LTD
Steven Grossman chronology
Caravan Tonight
(1974)		 Something In The Moonlight
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Christgau's Record Guide B [1]

Caravan Tonight is the first album by American singer-songwriter Steven Grossman. Released in 1974, it was the first album dealing with openly gay themes and subject matter within its lyrics to be released on a major label (Mercury Records). [2] At the time of its release, Stephen Holden in Rolling Stone described it as, "...staggering, its appeal to the finest human values universal." [3] Grossman himself said of the album, "The songs on the album came from a time when I was flipping out. Really confused... But for the first time I could write about what I felt not what I thought other people wanted to hear." [4]

Contents

English model, actress, and singer Twiggy recorded a cover of the title track "Caravan Tonight" on her 1976 self-titled album. [5]

Singer/songwriter Mark Weigle covered "Out" on his 2002 album Out Of The Loop ; it was a digital duet with Grossman. [6]

Track listing

Side one
  1. Caravan Tonight
  2. Out
  3. Five O'Clock Song
  4. Christopher's Blues
  5. Song to Bonnie
  6. Song to That M&M Man
Side two
  1. You Don't Have to Be Ashamed
  2. Many Kinds of Love
  3. Can't...Papa Blues
  4. Circle Nine Times
  5. Dry Dock Dreaming

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References

  1. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: G". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved February 24, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
  2. ↑ Studer, Wayne (1994). Rock on the Wild Side. San Francisco: Leyland Publications. pp. 99–100. ISBN   0-943595-46-0.
  3. ↑ Edwards, Gavin. "10 Singer-Songwriter Albums Rolling Stone Loved in the 1970s You've Never Heard". www.rollingstone.com. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Interview in "In Touch" magazine vol 2 no 1 reproduced http://queermusicheritage.com/jun2005mc.html accessed 10 August 2016
  5. ↑ "Steven Grossman Page 1".
  6. ↑ "Mark Weigle – Out of the Loop (2002, CD)". Discogs .
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