John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band is an American rock band from Rhode Island. The band was formed as simply “Beaver Brown” (named after a paint can) in 1972 and were one of the major acts in developing the heartland rock genre along contemporaries like Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Bob Seger. Despite success as a live band which soon established a following up and down the Northeast corridor, they were overshadowed by (unfair) comparison to primary Bruce Springsteen. Their final breakthrough happened when long time fan, producer Kenny Vance, offered them the score to a movie soundtrack he was helming, based on a best-selling novel about a legendary bar band, Eddie and the Cruisers (1983). Eddie and the Cruisers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart. The group’s follow-up album Tough All Over (1985) made the top 40.
This live performance was recorded at the Southern Illinois University Campus in Carbondale, Illinois on June 11th 1986 for broadcast on WCIL.
Artist: John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band
Album: Go Where The Action Is
Year: 2024
Label: Vision
Style: Classic Rock, Heartland Rock
Format: mp3/320, flac (tracks, 44.1kHz/16bit)
Tracklist
01 Voice Of America’s Sons 4:47
02 Where The Action Is 4:18
03 On The Dark Side 4:23
04 Small Town Girl 4:21
05 Dixieland 4:23
06 Tough All Over 4:47
07 Wild Summer Nights 4:03
08 Some Like It Hot 4:11
09 Tender Years 5:58
10 C-I-T-Y 4:08