Caravan Tonight
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| Caravan Tonight | ||||
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| Studio album by Steven Grossman | ||||
| Released | 1974 | |||
| Recorded | December 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 | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| 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]
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]
- Side one
- Caravan Tonight
- Out
- Five O'Clock Song
- Christopher's Blues
- Song to Bonnie
- Song to That M&M Man
- Side two
- You Don't Have to Be Ashamed
- Many Kinds of Love
- Can't...Papa Blues
- Circle Nine Times
- Dry Dock Dreaming