Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions

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.

Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions
Studio album by Shannon Curfman
Released	September 28, 1999 (1999-09-28)
Genre	Blues rock
Length	43:49
Label	Arista
Producer	Shannon Curfman Kevin Bowe Tom Tucker
Shannon Curfman chronology
Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions (1999) Take It Like a Man (2006)

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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

1. "Few and Far Between" (Kevin Bowe, Shannon Curfman) – 3:54
2. "No Riders" (Bowe, Curfman) – 3:29
3. "True Friends" (Bruce McCabe) – 3:29
4. "If You Change Your Mind" (Bowe, Curfman, David Grissom) – 4:25
5. "Love Me Like That" (Bowe, Curfman, Jonny Lang) – 3:22
6. "Playing with Fire" (Curfman, Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Tommy Sims) – 4:56
7. "I Don't Make Promises (I Can't Break)" (Bowe, Kostas) – 3:48
8. "Hard to Make a Stand" (Bill Bottrell, Scott Bryan, Sheryl Crow, Todd Wolfe) – 4:01
9. "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) – 5:26
10. "Never Enough" (Bowe, Curfman) – 3:47
11. "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

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