Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions

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Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions is the debut album by American blues-rock artist Shannon Curfman, released in 1999, for Arista Records. 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.

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, DavidGrissom) – 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