It Ain't Easy (Chris Smither album) explained

It Ain't Easy
Type:	album
Artist:	Chris Smither
Cover:	It_Aint_Easy.jpg
Released:	1984
Recorded:	1984
Genre:	Blues, folk
Length:	56:02
Label:	Adelphi
Chronology:	Chris Smither
Prev Title:	Don't It Drag On
Prev Year:	1972
Next Title:	Another Way to Find You
Next Year:	1991

It Ain't Easy is an album by American singer/songwriter Chris Smither, released in 1984. The original contained 12 songs.

Reception

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." 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..."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Chris Smither; except where indicated

1. "Footloose"
2. "It Ain't Easy" (Ron Davies)
3. "John Hurt Medley" (Mississippi John Hurt)
4. "No Money Down" (Chuck Berry)
5. "Green Rocky Road" (Len Chandler, Robert Kaufman)
6. "Guilty" (Randy Newman)
7. "Maybellene" (Chuck Berry)
8. "Rosalie"
9. "One Plus One"
10. "Ninety Nine Year Blues" (Julius Daniels)
11. "The Glory of Love" (Billy Hill)
12. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Lonnie Chatmon, Walter Vinson)
13. "Once in a Very Blue Moon" (Patrick Alger, Eugene Levine)
14. "So Long, Harry Truman" (Danny O'Keefe)

Personnel

• Chris Smither – vocals, guitar