> Folk Music > Records > Chris Smither: I’m a Stranger Too!
Chris Smither: I’m a Stranger Too!
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   I’m a Stranger Too! Poppys PYS 40013 (LP, USA, 1970)  | 
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Produced by Michael Cuscuna;
Engineered by Brooks Arthur and Jay Tropp;
Photography by Jim Bogin;
Graphic design by Milton Glaser
Musicians
Chris Smither: vocals, acoustic guitar;
John Baley: acoustic rhythm guitar, backing vocals;
Russell George: acoustic bass guitar,
  fiddle [10];
Richard Davis: electric bass guitar;
Al Rogers: drums, tambourine
Tracks
Side 1
- A Short While Ago (2.35)
 - A Song for Susan (3.08)
 - I Am a Child (3.51)
 - Have You Seen My Baby (2.55)
 - Devil Got Your Man (3.49)
 
Side 2
- Hommunculus (3.12)
 - Love You Like a Man (2.36)
 - Lonely Time (3.23)
 - Look Down the Road (2.38)
 - Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine And Dandelion Wine) (2.30)
 - Time to Go Home (5.35)
 
All tracks written by Chris Smither except
Track 3 Neil Young;
Tracks 4, 10 Randy Newman
> Folk Music > Records > Chris Smither: Another Way to Find You
Chris Smither: Another Way to Find You
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   Another Way to Find You Flying Fish FF 70568 (CD, UK, 1991)  | 
Recorded and produced by John S. Nagy;
Recorded live in the studio at Soundtrack Studios, Boston, 28-29 December 1989;
Project coordinator Carol Young
Musicians
Chris Smither: vocals, guitar
Tracks
- High Heel Sneakers / Big Boss Man (2.28)
 - Another Way to Find You (3.34)
 - Down in the Flood (3.12)
 - Lonely Time (2.33)
 - Lonesome Georgia Brown (2.25)
 - Statesboro Blues (3.04)
 - Catfish (2.03)
 - Every Mother’s Son (3.35)
 - I Got Mine (2.56)
 - Don’t It Drag On (3.32)
 - Love You Like a Man (2.03)
 - I Feel the Same (3.39)
 - Friend of the Devil (3.11)
 - Shake Sugaree (4.10)
 - Tulane (2.23)
 - Have You Seen My Baby (2.26)
 - A Song for Susan—Part One and Two (4.49)
 - Homunculus (3.05)
 
All tracks written by Chris Smither except
Track 1a Tommy Tucker;
Track 1b Luther Dixon, Al Smith;
Track 3 Bob Dylan;
Track 6 Blind Willie McTell;
Track 7 Danny O’Keefe;
Track 13 Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter;
Track 14 Elizabeth Cotten;
Track 15 Chuck Berry;
Track 16 Randy Newman
> Folk Music > Records > Chris Smither: Happier Blue
Chris Smither: Happier Blue
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   Happier Blue Flying Fish FF 70622 (CD, UK, 1993)  | 
Produced and arrange by John Nagy;
Recorded by John Nagy at Soundtrack Studios, Boston, MA,
second engineer Andy Blakelock;
Mastered by Toby Mountain at Northeast Digital;
Cover, tray and inside photos by Marc Norberg;
Back cover photo by Robert Tobey;
Design by Hunter Studio
Musicians
Chris Smither: vocals, guitar, feet;
Robin Batteau: violin:
Bill Bookheim: percussion:
Mark Egan: fretless 4 and 8-string bass:
Bob Gay: saxophone:
Brad Hatfield: keyboards:
Bill Urmson: bass
Tracks
- Happier Blue (4.16)
 - Memphis in the Meantime (3.43)
 - The Devil’s Real (4.58)
 - No More Cane on the Brazos (Roud 10063) / Mail Order Mystics (6.06)
 - No Reward (5.32)
 - Already Gone (Flatfoot Blues) (3.26)
 - Killin’ the Blues (5.24)
 - Rock ’n Roll Doctor (3.09)
 - Magnolia (3.06)
 - Honeysuckle Dog (3.25)
 - Take It All (3.58)
 - Time to Spend (3.14)
 
All tracks written by Chris Smither except
Track 2 John Hiatt;
Track 4a trad.;
Track 7 Rowland Salley;
Track 8 Lowell George;
Track 9 J.J. Cale
> Folk Music > Records > Chris Smither: Still on the Levee
Chris Smither: Still on the Levee
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   Still on the Levee Homunculus Music / Signature Sounds SIG 2066 (2 CD, UK, 2014)  | 
Produced by David Goodrich;
Recorded by Ben Lorio at The Music Shed in New Orleans, LA, in June 2013;
Overdubs and additional studio engineering work by Mark Thayer at
Signature Sounds in Pomfret, CT;
Mixed by David Goodrich and Ben Lorio at The Music Shed in January 2014;
Mastered by Ian Kennedy at New Alliance in East Cambridge, MA;
Design by Meghan Dewar;
Package photos by Emma Manners and Chris Bence;
Interior photos by Jason Kruppa, Carol Young, David Goodrich, Chris Smither,
David Schriver, and others;
Drawings by Carol Leake
Musicians
Chris Smither: vocals, guitar, feet
The Motivators:
Billy Conway: drms, percussion, vocals;
Jimmy Fitting: harmonica, vocals;
David Goodrich: guitars, diddley bo, piano, vocals;
Anita Suhanin: vocals
Mo’ Motivation:
Allen Touissint: piano [11, 16];
Loudon Wainwright III: guitar, vocals [17];
Jeremy Moses Curtis: bass;
Kris Delmhorst: cello;
Ian Kennedy: violin;
Catherine Norr: vocals [9];
Barry Rothman: random events, phonographs;
Robin Smither: violin [13]
Ever-expanding waste band featuring members of Morphine [15, 23]:
Dana Colley: baritone saxophone;
Jeremy Lyons: slide bass, noise guitar
Rusty Belle [7, 13, 24-25]:
Kate Lorenz: vocals, percussions;
Matt Lorenz: guitar, suitcase, hi hat, vocals;
Zak Trojano: guitar, bass drum, hi hat, vocals
Tracks
CD 1
- Devil Got Your Man (4.36)
 - Don’t It Drag On (3.10)
 - No More Cane on the Brazos (Roud 10063) (1.55)
 - Love You Like a Man (2.30)
 - Rosalie (4.19)
 - Lonesome Georgia Brown (2.24)
 - A Song for Susan (3.55)
 - Another Way to Find You (3.28)
 - ’Deed I Do (3.32)
 - Link of Chain (4.14)
 - Train Home (4.15)
 - Lola (3.50)
 - Leave the Light On (3.25)
 
CD 2
- Hold On (3.51)
 - Shillin’ for the Blues (4.02)
 - No Love Today (4.43)
 - What They Say (2.41)
 - Slow Surprise (3.12)
 - Can’t Shake These Blues (3.51)
 - Call Time (3.21)
 - Up on the Lowdown (3.36)
 - Seems So Real (4.41)
 - Small Revelations (4.06)
 - Winsome Smile (4.12)
 - Leave the Light On (4.22)
 
All tracks written by Chris Smither except
Track 3 trad.
> Folk Music > Records > Chris Smither
Other records with Chris Smither
Various Artists:
People on the Highway: A Bert Jansch Encomium,
2 CD, Market Square MSMCD106, 2000
Steve Tilston:
Reaching Back,
4+1 CD, Free Reed FRQCD 70, 2007
Various Artists:
Trades Roots Live,
CD, Trades Roots TR001, 2009




