Chris Smither It Ain't Easy CD

It Ain't Easy Music

List Price	$16.97 (You save $4.68)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Folk, Blues, Folk Music, Bluegrass, Contemporary Blues
Label	Genes
Orig Year	1984
All Time Sales Rank	59593
CD Universe Part number	1159806
Catalog number	1031
Discs	1
Release Date	Mar 04, 1994
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	Chris Smither; Jim Harmon
Engineer	Jim Harmon
Recording Time	39 minutes
Personnel	Chris Smither - vocals, guitar

Chris Smither It Ain't Easy Songs

	1.	Footloose
	2.	It Ain't Easy
	3.	John Hurt Medley
	4.	No Money Down
	5.	Green Rocky Road
	6.	Guilty
	7.	Maybellene
	8.	Rosalie
	9.	One Plus One
	10.	Ninety Nine Year Blues
	11.	Glory of Love, The
	12.	Sitting on Top of the World
	13.	Once in a Very Blue Moon
	14.	So Long, Harry Truman

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