It Ain't Easy (Chris Smither album)
1984 studio album by Chris Smither
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It Ain't Easy is an album by American singer/songwriter Chris Smither, released in 1984. The original contained 12 songs.
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| Released | 1984 | |||
| Recorded | 1984 | |||
| Genres | Blues, folk | |||
| Length | 56:02 | |||
| Label | Adelphi | |||
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Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| 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
All tracks composed by Chris Smither; except where indicated
- "Footloose"
- "It Ain't Easy" (Ron Davies)
- "John Hurt Medley" (Mississippi John Hurt)
- "No Money Down" (Chuck Berry)
- "Green Rocky Road" (Len Chandler, Robert Kaufman)
- "Guilty" (Randy Newman)
- "Maybellene" (Chuck Berry)
- "Rosalie"
- "One Plus One"
- "Ninety Nine Year Blues" (Julius Daniels)
- "The Glory of Love" (Billy Hill)
- "Sitting on Top of the World" (Lonnie Chatmon, Walter Vinson)
- "Once in a Very Blue Moon" (Patrick Alger, Eugene Levine)
- "So Long, Harry Truman" (Danny O'Keefe)
Personnel
- Chris Smither – vocals, guitar