David Johansen and the Harry Smiths

David Johansen and the Harry Smiths
Studio album by David Johansen
Released	2000
Recorded	November 29 - December 2, 1999
Studio	St. Peter's Episcopal Church, New York, NY
Genre	Blues, folk
Length	50:28
Label	Chesky Records
Producer	David Chesky, Brian Koonin
David Johansen chronology
Buster's Spanish Rocketship (1997) David Johansen and the Harry Smiths (2000) Shaker (2002)

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David Johansen and the Harry Smiths, released in 2000, is the first of two albums David Johansen released with the "Harry Smiths". David Johansen created the album following a folk scene that was taking place in the late 1990s in New York City clubs. Inspired by the 1997 reissue of musicologist Harry Everett Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (a compilation of 1920s and 1930s country and blues recordings), Johansen named his band "the Harry Smiths" and recorded and performed songs from, or inspired by, the Anthology.

The album was his first since 1984 which is credited to him and not his musical alter ego Buster Poindexter.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"James Alley Blues"	Richard "Rabbit" Brown	3:33
2.	"Darling, Do You Remember Me?"	Lightnin Hopkins	4:31
3.	"Delia"	Traditional; arranged by Bob Dylan	6:38
4.	"Little Geneva"	McKinley Morganfield	3:29
5.	"Well, I've Been to Memphis"	Unknown	3:58
6.	"Katie Mae"	Lightnin Hopkins	4:19
7.	"Old Dog Blue"	Unknown	3:24
8.	"Somebody Buy Me a Drink"	Oscar Brown, Jr.	4:10
9.	"Poor Boy Blues"	Unknown	3:18
10.	"On the Wall"	Unknown	2:56
11.	"Don't Start Me Talking"	Sonny Boy Williamson	2:32
12.	"Oh Death"	Unknown	4:01
13.	"Richland Woman"	Mississippi John Hurt	3:39

Personnel

• David Johansen - vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Brian Koonin - guitar, mandolin
• Larry Saltzman - guitar, banjo
• Kermit Driscoll - bass, didjeridu
• Joey Baron - percussion

Additional personnel

• David Chesky - producer
• Brian Koonin - producer
• Norman Chesky - executive producer
• Hank Medress - executive producer
• Barry Wolifson - recording engineer
• Sandy Palmer Grassi - second engineer/production coordinator
• Nicholas Prout - editing and mastering engineer
• Rick Eckerle - recording assistant
• Peter Volpe - recording assistant
• Lisa J. Marks - director of legal affairs
• Catherine Kernen - production manager
• Lisa Hershfield - artist development
• Slow Hearth Studio - art direction