Crack The Sky - Hold On-Surf City
Crack the Sky is an American progressive rock band formed in Weirton, West Virginia in the early 1970s. In 1975, Rolling Stone Magazine declared their first album “debut album of the year”, and in 1978, Rolling Stone Record Guide compared them to Steely Dan…
…promotion and distribution problems on Lifesong Records’ behalf prevented its widespread success. According to Terry Minogue, “Records were promised but never arrived at the distribution centers. The record would be on the radio but there would be no product on the stores or visa versa. When people wanted it, it would never be available.”By blind luck, the marketing did work in Baltimore, only because a surplus of records were shipped there and put on display in stores when the album was receiving radio play. Subsequently, the album became a monster hit in Baltimore.
I discovered Crack The Sky through their second album, Animal Notes, found in the cut-out bin of the Sound Warehouse in Fort Smith, Arkansas. I later found their debut album, which these songs are from, at a used record store.
I didn’t know anything about the band beyond what was on the liner notes until looking them up on Wikipedia tonight.
