The Steve Gibbons Band only made a few albums in the U.S., and enjoyed their greatest popularity between 1976 and 1978. They had been discovered by The Who's bassist John Entwistle, and he signed them to The Who's label that was distributed by MCA Records in the U.S.
Gibbons is a no-nonsense rocker that some have called the U.K.'s answer to Bob Seger. He had assembled a cool little band that included Trevor Burton, the bassist for the Move, that would go on to record the Down in the Bunker album, which went on to receive a significant amount of critical acclaim.
Gibbons became an important act in his native U.K., but his career never quite took off in the U.S. - not that he didn't have more than a few chances. He opened for The Who in America and got considerable backing from MCA while trying to break his Any Road album, yet failed to capitalize.
By the 1990s, Gibbons' career had been pretty reduced to being a cult, club act in England. Still, Gibbons soldiered on, and in 1998 released what many regard as an accomplished tribute to Bob Dylan.