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The Redbird Session

Shadric Smith

e-mails from outer space:

Hi Shadric,  Many thanks for the Redbird Session CD.   There's several really good radio tracks on it -- will start playing something next Monday.   Always proud to flaunt your songs on the New Zealand airwaves.    

Cheers,  Eddie O'Strange    Blue Smoke Music Company  2 - 19 - 02   e-mail

Giday Shadric,  Received The Redbird Session,  I enjoy this cd,  will get plenty of airplay,  I must admit I don't sing Bye, Bye Blackbird like you,  great!

Yours in Country,  Bob Atkins   BayBreeze Country  5-7am  100.3 Bay Fm

Queensland Australia    2 - 24 - 02 e-mail

Reported airplay for Riverboat, People Hide Their Love, Doctor of My Soul and The Cat Without A Spoon 

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Riverboat

Doctor of My Soul

Black Dog

Send Me A Postcard From Hawaii

People Hide Their Love  ( Greg Brown )

Redbird

Dust Bowl Days

Morning Makes The Lovers Weep

Bye Bye Blackbird ( R. Henderson & M. Dixon )

The Cat Without A Spoon

Fonda Sue

It's Late

In February and March of 1976 a group of midwestern musicians gathered at West Minst'r Sound studio outside of Otho, Iowa to make some music.   I had a batch of original songs.  Chuck Henderson played acoustic and electric guitars and piano.   Keith Brown played bass.   Arnie Bode Jr. played drums.   The session was engineered by Frank Wiewel and mixed down by Bud Billings.   Chuck and I had worked up some great guitar arrangements of these songs and we drafted Keith and Arnie to make it sound like "a band".     We put brand new strings on our Martin acoustics and played into the new Neumann mikes the studio had just purchased.   The recordings were crystal clear and we ended up with ten original songs ....and two more cover tunes, the jazz classic Bye Bye Blackbird and Greg Brown's sultry ballad  People Hide Their Love.   This batch of tunes landed me a "record deal" with Doug Lee from Minneapolis in 1977.   That deal eventually produced The Billy Buffalo Band session in 1978.

   This pre-Buffalo music included everyting from folk to country....from the hillbilly revenge of Send Me A Postcard From Hawaii to the Brazilian influenced Doctor Of My Soul....to the blues of It's Late.    Of all these tracks, only Fonda Sue has ever been released to the public,  on my 1986 cassette When You're Down In Iowa.  Please enjoy these sparse arrangements and by all means play along with the songs on your instruments at home to help flush them out a little.   

See Lyrics and Chords section for the music. 

Kirk Kaufman,  the kindly wizard owner of the same studio,  now known as Junior's Motel managed to save these gems from the archives,  transfer them to the digital domain and arrange them on a CD which can be ordered online or by mail.

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Also available at:

Rieman Music  1024 Central Avenue    Fort Dodge, Iowa 

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