Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions

Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions
Studio album by Shannon Curfman
Released	September 28, 1999
Genre	Blues rock
Length	43:49
Label	Arista
Producer	Shannon Curfman; Kevin Bowe; Tom Tucker
Shannon Curfman chronology

Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions is the debut album by American blues-rock artist Shannon Curfman, released in 1999, for Arista Records when she was 14 years old.[1] 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.

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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, David Grissom) – 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
1999	Top Blues Albums	3
2000	Heatseekers	39

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1999	"True Friends"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	27
2000	"Playing with Fire"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	37

References

Skelly, Richard. "Artists / Shannon Curfman". Billboard. Retrieved 9 October 2016.

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[Billboard_bio-1] Skelly, Richard. "Artists / Shannon Curfman". Billboard. Retrieved 9 October 2016.