Description:
The Heartland Café is the first and only album in English released by Gyllene Tider and it was recorded at EMI Studios in Stockholm between July and December 1983.
The album was released in Sweden in the spring of 1984 and later the year it was also released as a 6-track mini album in the U.S.A. with the name Heartland.
When the album was released on CD in 1990 (in the box set Kompakta Tider) and 1991 (as a seperate CD) the following bonus tracks were included:
Kiss From A Stranger and Mr. Twillight - These were previously unreleased songs originally recorded for this album.
Rock On - This is a cover of David Essex' song which is unavailable anywhere else.
Young Girl - This song was previously released as the B-side on the single Teaser Japanese.
Anytime - This song was originally recorded for this album but, in the end, it was only included on the compilation album Hi Fidelity!
Produced by Lars-Göran "Lasse" Lindbom
Musical credits
Mickael "Micke Syd" Andersson - Drums, percussion, synthesizers and backing vocals
Göran Fritzson - Grand piano, synthesizers and percussion
Per Gessle - Vocals, synthesizers and backing vocals
Anders Herrlin - Bass and synthesizers
Mats "MP" Persson - Electric and acoustic guitars, pedal steel guitar, grand piano, synthesizers, mandolin and trumpet
Jan "Janne" Bark - Backing vocals, Marie Fredriksson - Backing vocals, Atsuko Katsube - Japanese reading on Teaser Japanese (Japanese poem written by Atsuko Katsube), Lars-Göran "Lasse" Lindbom - Percussion, backing vocals and chimes, Gunnar Lööf - Morse signals, Bengt Palmers - String arrangement, Anne-Lie Rydé - Vocals, Erik Strandh - Accordion, Niklas Strömstedt - Backing vocals, Red Ward - Saxophone |
