Live: The Road

Live: The Road is the third live album recorded by the British rock band, the Kinks. It was recorded at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, on 29 June 1987, and at Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 1 July; the second date provided most of the material on the album. One new song, "The Road", was recorded in the Kinks' own studio in September. Most of the concert songs were previously released on other Kinks albums except for "The Road" and "It (I Want It)".

Upon release, the album, like many other albums the band made at the time, was a flop, both commercially and critically. It reached number 110 on the US Billboard 200. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the album as "a tepid document of their workmanlike arena rock shows from 1987" and said the album "wasn't anything special." Rolling Stone was more kind to the album, saying that "it's less predictable and more textured than the tiresome arena-rock performances of the early-Eighties Kinks."

Personnel

 * The Kinks
 * Ray Davies – lead vocals, guitar
 * Dave Davies – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Living on a Thin Line"
 * Jim Rodford – bass, backing vocals
 * Bob Henrit – drums
 * Ian Gibbons – keyboards, backing vocals


 * Production
 * Ray Davies – producer
 * Johnie Rosen – live recording engineer
 * Dave Powell – overdub engineer
 * George Holt – overdub assistant engineer
 * Jeremy Allom – mix engineer
 * Peter Iverson – mix assistant engineer
 * Bob Ludwig – mastering engineer