Any Road Up

Any Road Up is the debut studio album by The Steve Gibbons Band. The band were under The Who's management stable and this album was released by Polydor in 1976. This was followed by a tour with The Who in the UK, Europe and the United States. Playing arenas, they shared the stage with Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Electric Light Orchestra, The J. Geils Band and Nils Lofgren.

Any Road Up
Studio album by Steve Gibbons Band
Released	1976
Recorded	1975
Studio	Eel Pie, Ramport and Advision Studios, London
Genre	Rock, blues, rock and roll, folk, jazz, country, R&B
Length	45:04
Label	MCA in US, Polydor in UK and Germany
Producer	Peter Meaden
Steve Gibbons Band chronology
Any Road Up (1976) Rollin' On (1977)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic

The album failed to chart while the song "Johnny Cool" (based on the film of the same name) reached the Billboard Hot 100, stalling at number 72.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Steve Gibbons

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Take Me Home"	4:04
2.	"Johnny Cool"	3:55
3.	"Rollin'"	5:53
4.	"Spark of Love"	4:14
5.	"Standing on the Bridge"	3:13
6.	"Natural Thing"	4:21
7.	"Speed Kills"	3:33
8.	"Strange World"	5:17
9.	"Sweetheart"	4:20

1993 Reissue Tracks

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Get up and Dance"	3:15
2.	"Little Suzie"	2:59

1997 Reissue Tracks

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Back Street Cat"
2.	"Dick Malone"

Personnel

The Steve Gibbons Band

• Steve Gibbons - guitar, lead vocals
• Trevor Burton - bass guitar, lead guitar, vocals
• Dave Carroll - lead guitar, vocals
• Bob Lamb - drums
• Bob Wilson - lead guitar, keyboards, vocals

with:

• John Entwistle - bass guitar, backing vocals

Technical

• Anton Matthews - associate producer, Advison Studios
• Ken Laguna - remixing, Advision Studios; additional instrumentation
• John Entwistle - mixing, Ramport Studios
• Terry O'Neill - photography

External links

• 1976 track listing on Discogs.com
• 1993 track listing on Discogs.com