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Lucky 70001.JPG (166797 bytes)   Lucky 7    Shadric Smith.   Seven original songs recorded in 1975 at the University of Iowa with Chuck Henderson and Paul Berner.  Holliday's Club Cafe, Blue Blood Biscuits or Booze, Redbird, Hardly Anybody Knows, Radius One, Riverboat Sail Downstream, Tone Down Your Radio.   Early stuff....only for the serious collector.    Folk-Swing-Blues.   $11.

Redbird CD cover0001.JPG (158508 bytes)  The Redbird Session     Shadric Smith   Twelve original songs recorded in 1976 at Otho, Iowa with Chuck Henderson, Keith Brown, and Arnie Bodie, Jr.   Riverboat, Doctor of My Soul, Black Dog, Send Me A Postcard From Hawaii, People Hide Their Love ( Greg Brown ), Redbird, Dust Bowl Days Are Comin', Morning Makes The Lovers Weep, Bye Bye Blackbird ( R. Henderson/M. Dixon ), The Cat Without A Spoon, Fonda Sue, It's Late.   Some good pickin' from Fort Dodge musicians.    Folk-Country-Blues.   $14.

SS & the BBB.JPG (121432 bytes) Shadric Smith & The Billy Buffalo Band   Fourteen original songs recorded in 1978 at Otho, Iowa and Minneapolis, MN with Chuck Henderson, Dolor Adams, Gary Durr, Bruce McCabe, Lloyd "Abe" Abraham, Vassar Clements, Mike Russell and Kenny Putnam.    Yankee Cowboy, The Moon Is My Companion, Ride the Texas Wind, The Nitehawks, Diamonds Don't Mean A Thing, Holliday's Club Cafe, Riverboat Sail Downstream, I Can't Stop My Feet From Dancin', Redbird, Hello Nel..., I Can't Help Myself, Country Boy, It's Late, Tearin' My Way Home.   This may be my best work.   Order this one first if you don't have any of my  recordings.     Country-Swing-Folk-Blues.   $14.

HSB CD cover0001.JPG (161652 bytes)  The Hillbilly Soul Brothers  Twelve songs recorded "Live to 2-Track" in 1982 at Otho, Iowa with Lloyd "Abe" Abraham.    Biscuits, Neighborhood, Libby Came A Walkin', Go Down Hanna, Kentucky Mountain, Dust Bowl Days, Only You Can Stop The Rain, The Last Cowpuncher, Oh Marna, Bob's Whatever.    Some great little rural arrangements with my partner and musical cohort Abe....no overdubs....some fun music for country adults.    Original Hillbilly-Bluegrass-Country-Blues.   $14.

A Bird On the Wing in Iowa0001.JPG (188320 bytes)  A Bird On The Wing In Iowa   Shadric Smith & The Billy Buffalo Band.   Twelve songs recorded in 1986 at Otho, Iowa with Dave Hearn, Kris Karr and Brian Nelson.   A Bird On The Wing In Iowa, Turkey In The Straw,  Sparrow Blues, Under The Double Eagle, Redbird, Blackbird ( Paul McCartney ), Redwing Polka, Colorado Crow, Bluejay, Listen To The Mockingbird, Bye Bye Blackbird ( R. Henderson/M. Dixon ), Home Sweet Home.   Originally released as a kid's tape....too lively for bedtime.     Country-Old Time.   $14.

Dogtown Blues cover0001.JPG (146170 bytes)  Dogtown Blues  Shadric Smith and Friends.   Ten original songs recorded in 1990 at Otho, Iowa with Dave Steen, Kris Karr, Denny Osburn and Todd Mason.   Coffee For The Blues, The Bullfrog Boogie, I Go Crazy, Sister Strange, Red Guitar, Prayin' For Rain, Back Off And Cool Down, Mixed Up On You, Dogtown Summer, The Wine Is Old.   More suited for adult blues lovers who like a little country thrown in once in awhile.    Blues-Boogie-Country.  $14.

FFB CD cover0001.JPG (190664 bytes)  The Frontier Fiddle Band   Fourteen songs recorded in 1991 at Otho, Iowa with Dave Hearn, Herb Dreasler and David Parker.   Oh Susanna, Ragtime Annie, Riverboat Sail Downstream, O'Hearn's Reel, Clementine, Over The Waterfall, Goodbye To The City, The 8th of January, Turkey In The Straw, Seneca Square Dance, Polly Wolly Doodle, I Always Knew You Were The One, A Penny For Adeline, Red River Valley.   Suitable for hillbillies of all ages.  With the help of the Iowa Arts Council we have played all over the state.   Old Time-Folk-Hillbilly.  $14.

Tunesmith CD cover0001.JPG (138111 bytes)  Tunesmith  Shadric Smith.  Sixteen original songs recorded between 1976 and 1999 with various musicians and singers at Otho, IA, Fort Dodge, and Kansas City, MO.   Lonesome Fiddle, When You're Down In Iowa, One Step Ahead Of The Blues, Riverboat Sail Downstream, Thank You Grandma, Jivin' With Ivan, Dark Star Rising, The Kitchen Song, Bluer Than The Moon Over You ( Scott Dorman ), Rollin' Down That Lincoln Highway, Lost In A Dream, ( w Nicki Thoma ), Tombstone Cowboy ( w Dave Hearn ), Mixed Up On You ( w Jan Vroman ), Daddy's Mama's Truck Is Countrified, The Old Iowa Waltz, ( w Dave Hearn ), A Penny For Adeline.  Mixture of sessions and singers with TWO great Iowa Songs.     Country-Folk.    $14.

Half My Life cover0001.JPG (161435 bytes)  Half My Life    Shadric Smith.  Twelve original songs recorded in 2002 and 2003 with Denny Osburn from Kansas City,  Dolor Adams from Texas on drums, and Brian Nelson from Fort Dodge on bass.   Kirk Kaufman engineered six of these tracks at Junior's Motel studio in Otho, IA.   Denny engineered the other six on his Yamaha AW4816 hard disk recorder at Big Blue Sound in Fort Dodge and added mucho instrumental parts: piano, steel, mandolin, bass, horns, and drums.   Half My Life, Rochester Swing, Prayin' For Rain, You Ride That Lonely Rail, It's Good To Get Back To Work, Lost In A Dream, Halo For a Hatband, Rollin' Down That Lincoln Highway, Livin' And Dyin' Here, Love in LeMars, Black Dog, Ride The Texas Wind.   Easy listening with some fine playing by my musician pals...one of my favorites.   Country-Jazz-Blues.    $14.

Remember Your Dreams0001.JPG (164089 bytes)  Remember Your Dreams   Shadric Smith    Fourteen original songs recorded in 2003 and 2004 mostly at Big Blue Sound in Fort Dodge.    Featuring Tristan Smith on vocals,  Brandon Scott Sellner on guitar, and Dean Davis on drums on some of the tracks.   Two songs co-produced and recorded with Denny Osburn at his Kansas City studio:  Late Last Night and Northern Geese featuring Denny on keyboard.  Remember Your Dreams,  In A Perfect World,  Dear Dad,  Am Thing,  Black Cat Blues,  Gypsy Lullaby,  Seven,  Simplify,  Northern Geese,  Don't Go Away, Remembering Shirlee,  Soldier Boy,  Windsong ( Written with Brandon Scott Sellner ),  Late Last Night.   Something for everyone on this disc....2 instrumentals, acoustic instruments, keyboard background tracks, mostly produced in my home studio.    Jazzy-Pop-Country-Blues    $14.

Balalaika Beats CD cover0001.JPG (161402 bytes)  Balalaika Beats   Shadric Smith   Fourteen original Balalaika improvisations and variations on rhythm grooves generated with Zoom RT-123 rhythm machine.  All Instrumental.   Wild Horses on the Steppe, Spoonful of Moscow, Tarnished Czar, Ukrainian Moon, Natasha, Balalaika Blues, Riffin' Russian, October Longing, Rainbow Over Osipov, Stalingrad Swing, Long Winter March, Follow Me Down Comrade, Funky Train To Siberia, Bolshoi Ballet.    Great for listening to as background music while performing household chores.        Folk-Trance-Dance    $14.

Balaika Beats II CD cover0001.JPG (165212 bytes)  Balalaika Beats II   Shadric Smith   Fourteen MORE original Balalaika improvisations and variations on rhythm grooves generated with Zoom RT-123 rhythm machine.  All Instrumental.  Pluck Hard Petrov, Fire Dance, Trubloff's Triumph, Survival in the Province, Boots of Kamarinskaya, Valentina, Contrabass Balalaika Boogie, Dark Eyes Are Danger, Ludmila's Groove, Triangular Body of Thought, Ural Mountain Mystery, Sister Sonya, Answer Me Now Robot, The End of the Beginning.    Great for listening to as background music while performing more household chores.     Folk-Trance-Dance    $14.

SS & the ABBB at WHTC cover0001.JPG (161242 bytes) Shadric Smith and the Acoustic Billy Buffalo Band Live in Concert at the Western Iowa Historic Trails Center Sixteen original songs and two Hank Williams covers recorded in Council Bluffs, Iowa on February 19, 2005 with David Parker, Brian Nelson, Kris Karr, Dave Steen, and guest appearances by Dave Maron on spoons and Fred Larson on harmonica.   Riverboat Sail Downstream, Yankee Cowboy, Neighborhood, Goodbye To The City, When You're Down In Iowa, Ragtime Annie, Holliday's Club Cafe, Hey Good Lookin' ( Hank Williams ), Ride The Texas Wind, A Penny For Adeline, Gypsy Lullaby, Half My Life ( co-written with Dave Moore ), Redbird, Turkey in the Straw, Prayin' For Rain, In A Perfect World, Diamonds Don't Mean A Thing, Jambalaya ( Hank Williams ).  A special performance in front of a small crowd of music lovers at the crossroads of the West.  Recorded on Yamaha AW16G hard disk recorder.    Country-Folk.   $14.

  JamminatSpankys.jpg (78782 bytes)   Jammin' at Spanky's  Shadric Smith with The Buffalo Horns.  Live recordings from August of 2005 in Fort Dodge's premier live music venue Spanky's Bar & Grill.   Featuring The Buffalo Horns,  Dan Cassady - trombone,  Jon Holmes - tenor sax, Curt Klein - flugelhorn, Kris Karr - guitar/vocals,  Brian Nelson - bass, Paul Reisner - snare/hihat,  Dean Davis - snare/hihat, Jeff Foreman - snare/hihat.   Songs include Goodbye to the City, Ride The Texas Wind, Coffee for the Blues, Riverboat, Prayin' for Rain, A Penny for Adeline ( Kris Karr vocal ), Tearin' My Way Home, Late Last Night, and two bonus studio tracks  If You Could See Love, and Hold My Hand On The 4th of July ( co-written with Matt McCrady-with Will Lopes on piano ).   Live and loose, recorded on Yamaha AW16G hard disk recorder.     Bluegrass-Country-Blues-Swing.   $14.  

It's Hard 2 H-I Up 72dpi cover0002.JPG (77490 bytes)   It's Hard To Hang It Up     Shadric Smith.  Original studio tracks from Big Blue Sound in Fort Dodge, Iowa.   Featuring Denny Osburn on the title track playing piano, bass, drums, lap steel, clarinet and baritone sax.    Will Lopes played piano on Hold My Hand on the Fourth of July.    All songs written by Shadric Smith except Hold My Hand on the Fourth of July which was co-written with Matt McCrady.   All other instruments played by and arrangements created by Shadric Smith.    It's Hard To Hang It Up, If You Could See Love, Tokyo Shuffle, Two Feathers, Mary Ann, Cold Snap, Mama's Drinkin' Again, Slightly Out Of Tune, Black Key Bounce, When Will You Love Me, Hold My Hand on the Fourth of July.    Country-Funky-Blues-Pop.  $14.

Mandoclassic cover 2 jpeg sm.jpg (52586 bytes)   MANDOCLASSIC  Smith & Johnson  Laid back recording session featuring 18 Classic songs from some of America's greatest composers as played by Shadric Smith on guitar/vocal and Bob Johnson on mandolin.  Recorded at Big Blue Sound in Fort Dodge, Iowa.  All of Me, St. Ann's Reel, Bye Bye Blackbird, Fly Me To The Moon, I'm Sitting On Top Of The World, Georgia On My Mind, Sentimental Journey, Ain't Misbehavin', Right Or Wrong, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Stardust, Milk Cow Blues, The Shadow Of Your Smile, Sioux City Sue, Arkansas Traveler, Rosetta, Sunnyside of the Street, Ashokan Farewell.    Classic Jazz Standards and Fiddle Songs.  $14.

SS w dobro 2.JPG (298070 bytes)   Celebratin' Life On The River   Fourteen more new recordings from Big Blue Sound in Fort Dodge, Iowa.    All original songs, except for classics Autumn Leaves and Over The Rainbow which were recorded live by Shadric Smith & Bob Johnson duo.   Featuring great cowriters and guest musican Dan Cassady on trombone.   Celebratin' Life On The River,  Underneath The Lilac Tree,  Nadia ( written with Colby Smith ), Autumn Leaves,  Best Friends ( written with Kirk Kaufman ), Blues For Tony, Low Fat Love, Atmosperic Shift, All I Want For Christmas, Over The Rainbow, Wavy Tremolo, Debbie Do, Sunset ( written with Debbie Smith )

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