About this title: This captures folk-blues guitarist-singer-songwriter Smither playing live in the studio for a hand-picked audience over the Christmas holidays in 1989. Smither presents 17 songs of his own derivation and others, blasting it all out in a couple of sharp sets in the time-honored folk music club tradition. His guitar work is clean and well played, and his vocals attain a sense of engagement throughout. While his interpretations of tunes by Chuck Berry, Randy Newman, Elizabeth Cotton, Willie McTell, Jimmy Reed and others are fine, the true highlights come with the originals "Lonely Time," "Don't ...
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Tracks on this album
Tracks:
- High Heel Sneakers/Big Boss Man
- Another Way to Find You
- Down in the Flood
- Lonely Time
- Lonesome Georgia Brown
- Statesboro Blues
- Catfish
- Every Mother's Son
- I Got Mine
- Don't It Drag On
- Love You Like a Man
- I Feel the Same
- Friend of the Devil
- Shake Sugaree
- Tulane
- Have You Seen My Baby?
- A Song for Susan
- Homunculus
Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is described below.
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