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Don't It Drag On

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Released
  
1972

Don't It Drag On(1972)
  
Release date
  
1972

Label
  
Poppy

Length
  
34:56

Artist
  
Producer
  
Genres
  
Blues, Folk music

Recorded
  
November 30 - December 4, 1971

Similar
  
Another Way to Find You, I'm a Stranger Too!, Up on the Lowdown, Small Revelations, Still On the Levee

Don't It Drag On is an album by American singer/songwriter Chris Smither, released in 1972. It was re-released on CD along with I'm a Stranger Too! in 2002.

Contents

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Brett Hartenbach called Smither "a great writer who knows when to look elsewhere for material, a masterful guitarist who understands simplicity and a powerful singer with restraint.": and wrote of the album "while the bulk of Smither's material has a ruminative, melancholic tone, don't expect typical singer/songwriter fare." Music critic Robert Christgau also praised the album, writing "Smither writes tough-minded yet numinous post-folk songs that do justice to his adventurous taste in other people's... A smart record."

Track listing

All songs by Chris Smither unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Lonesome Georgia Brown"
  2. "Down in the Flood" (Bob Dylan)
  3. "I've Got Mine"
  4. "Statesboro Blues" (Willie McTell)
  5. "Another Way to Find You"
  6. "No Expectations" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
  7. "Friend of the Devil" (John Dawson, Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter)
  8. "Don't It Drag On"
  9. "Every Mother's Son"
  10. "Mail Order Mystics"
  11. "I Feel the Same"

Personnel

  • Chris Smither – vocals, guitar
  • John Bailey - guitar, autoharp
  • Rod Hicks - bass
  • Happy Traum - banjo
  • Bonnie Raitt - background vocals
  • Maria Muldaur - background vocals
  • Kathryn Rose - background vocals
  • Roy Markowitz - drums
  • Eric Kaz - piano
  • Ben Keith - dobro, pedal steel guitar
  • Stuart Schulman - violin
  • Production

  • Produced by Michael Cuscuna
  • Engineered by Nick Jameson
  • Songs

    1Lonesome Georgia Brown2:43
    2Down in the Flood3:14
    3I've Got Mine2:55

    References

    Don't It Drag On Wikipedia


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