It Ain't Easy (Chris Smither album)

It Ain't Easy
Studio album by Chris Smither
Released 1984
Recorded 1984
Genre Blues, folk
Length 56:02
Label Adelphi
Chris Smither chronology
Don't It Drag On
(1972)		 It Ain't Easy'
(1984)		 Another Way to Find You
(1991)

It Ain't Easy is an album by American singer/songwriter Chris Smither, released in 1984. The original contained 12 songs.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau(B+) [2]

Writing for Allmusic, critic Brett Hartenbach wrote of the album "Smither never treats the songs as if they were museum pieces... There's not a false moment on the entire record. Highly recommended."[1] Music critic Robert Christgau wrote of the album "...it's damn hard to make a consistently interesting album out of your voice and an acoustic guitar. Smither comes within a dud original and a few extraneous covers of bring it off..."[2]

Track listing

  1. "Footloose" (Smither)
  2. "It Ain't Easy" (Ron Davies)
  3. "John Hurt Medley" (Mississippi John Hurt)
  4. "No Money Down" (Chuck Berry)
  5. "Green Rocky Road" (Chandler, Kaufman)
  6. "Guilty" (Randy Newman)
  7. "Maybellene" (Chuck Berry)
  8. "Rosalie" (Smither)
  9. "One Plus One" (Smither)
  10. "Ninety Nine Year Blues" (Daniels)
  11. "The Glory of Love" (Hill)
  12. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Chatmon, Vinson)
  13. "Once in a Very Blue Moon" (Alger, Levine)
  14. "So Long, Harry Truman" (Danny O'Keefe)

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Hartenbach, Brett. "It Ain't Easy > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 22, 2011.
  2. 1 2 Christgau, Robert. "It Ain't Easy > Review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved July 22, 2011.
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