Windy City Breakdown

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Windy City Breakdown
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril, 1977
Genre Rock
Length36:46
Label Bearsville Records (original release)
Wounded Bird Records (CD reissue)
Producer Jonathan Cain, J.C. Phillips
Jonathan Cain chronology
Windy City Breakdown
(1977)
Back to the Innocence
(1995)

Windy City Breakdown is the first solo album by the keyboard player and guitarist Jonathan Cain.

Contents

After this album, Cain joined The Babys.

Track listing

  1. "Windy City Breakdown" (Jonathan Cain, J.C. Phillips) 4:18
  2. "Lay Low Joe (Holiday On Ice)" (Cain, Phillips) 5:03
  3. "Rock It Down" (Cain, Phillips) 4:27
  4. "Moon Child" (Cain) 5:21
  5. "Rollercoaster Baby" (Cain) 3:45
  6. "Spinning My Wheels" (Cain) 4:20
  7. "Go Now" (Larry Banks, Milton Bennett) 3:12
  8. "Your Lady or Your Life" (Cain) 6:06
  9. "Backseat Bernice" (single not on album)

Source: [1]

Personnel

Production

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