Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions
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| Studio album by Shannon Curfman | ||||
| Released | September 28, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Blues-Rock | |||
| Length | 43:49 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
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Shannon Curfman Kevin Bowe Tom Tucker | |||
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Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions is the debut album by American blues-rock artist Shannon Curfman, released in 1999, for Arista Records. The title comes from a line in the Sheryl Crow song "Hard to Make a Stand", which Curfman covers on this album. The record was produced by Shannon Curfman herself, along with Kevin Bowe, and Tom Tucker.
Two singles were taken from it: "True Friends" and "Playing with Fire," both of which charted in the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the former peaking at #27, in 1999, and the latter only reaching #37, in 2000. As for the album, instead, it got to #3 in the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart, in 1999, also later reaching a lower #39 on the Heatseekers chart, in North America, in 2000.
Track listing
- "Few and Far Between" (Kevin Bowe, Shannon Curfman) – 3:54
- "No Riders" (Bowe, Curfman) – 3:29
- "True Friends" (Bruce McCabe) – 3:29
- "If You Change Your Mind" (Bowe, Curfman, DavidGrissom) – 4:25
- "Love Me Like That" (Bowe, Curfman, Jonny Lang) – 3:22
- "Playing with Fire" (Curfman, Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Tommy Sims) – 4:56
- "I Don't Make Promises (I Can't Break)" (Bowe, Kostas) – 3:48
- "Hard to Make a Stand" (Bill Bottrell, Scott Bryan, Sheryl Crow, Todd Wolfe) – 4:01
- "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) – 5:26
- "Never Enough" (Bowe, Curfman) – 3:47
- "I'm Coming Home" (Bowe, Curfman, McCabe) – 3:12
Personnel
- Shannon Curfman - guitar, vocals, background vocals
- Dave Anania - percussion
- Kenny Aronoff - drums
- Michael Bland - drums
- Kevin Bowe - acoustic guitar, guitar, mandolin, background vocals
- Randy Casey - guitar, background vocals
- Margaret Cox - background vocals
- Andy Dee - lap steel guitar
- Debbie Duncan - background vocals
- John Fields - loop
- David Grissom - guitar
- Pat Hayes - harp
- Jack Holder - acoustic guitar, guitar
- Cynthia Johnson - background vocals
- Jonny Lang - guitar
- Tim Mahoney - background vocals
- Bruce McCabe - piano
- Paul Peterson - bass
- Ricky Peterson - keyboards, background vocals
- Sonny Thompson - background vocals
Production
- Producers: Shannon Curfman, Kevin Bowe, Tom Tucker
- Engineer: Tom Tucker
- Assistant engineers: Brian Hanna, James Harley, Joe Lepinski, Shane Washington
- Mixing: Tom Lord-Alge, Tom Tucker
- Mastering: Ted Jensen
- A&R: Pete Ganbarg
- Art direction: Margery Greenspan
- Photography: Marina Chavez
- Stylist: Jane Harrison
Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1999 | Top Blues Albums | 3 |
| 2000 | Heatseekers | 39 |
Singles - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1999 | "True Friends" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 27 |
| 2000 | "Playing with Fire" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 37 |