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Little Known Cure

by Jonah Smith

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Live One 04:17
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No Design 03:55
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Big Box Town 05:14
Big Box Town The plastic pours into the mold and takes an old familiar shape A big box sign is being born, they’re everywhere, you can’t escape They’re on all of our four corners of this highway up and down They tore down our little village and built up a big box town On a little patch of land out here on the outskirts of town Somewhere east of Columbus that’s been painted gray and brown There’s logos flying in the sky but not much else around We got more than a bargain when they built our big box town And this big box town Didn’t just sprout up from the ground It was built on top of the general store We keep swallowing what they tell us And keep buying the shit sell us Please and thank you may I have some more? Please and thank you may I have some more? I guess I’m happy for the job although it doesn’t mean too much I made just enough to buy this old Camero with a burned out clutch And I go driving on my days off just to take a look around And try to find that old America buried beneath this big box town Well I think I might go drive out west until the road just ends I might stop in South Dakota or drive straight through it all depends You know I was talking to a couple from Sioux Falls and it got me down They said so much for local color; the dye’s been cast in a big box town And this big box town Didn’t just sprout up from the ground It was built on top of the general store We keep swallowing what they tell us And keep buying that shit sell us Please and thank you may I have some more? Please and thank you may I have some more? These teenage kids today don’t even recognize their own fate They’re hanging out at the TJ’s or the Denny’s by the Interstate And they’re laughing at the clown in the Camero that’s outside broken down To them this is America, so love it or leave this big box town And this big box town Didn’t just sprout up from the ground It was built on top of the general store We keep swallowing what they tell us And keep buying that shit sell us Please and thank you may I have some more? Please and thank you may I have some more?
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Carla 03:06
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credits

released August 18, 2012

1. Live One
2. Blues On Sideways
3. Under The Gun
4 Turn It Around
5. Buzzing Flies
6. There’s Nothing To Do In This Town
7. No Design
8. Big Box Town
9. This House Ain’t No Fun
10. Land Of Long Reds
11. Carla
12. I Came Here To Love You
13. You Always Think It’s You

Written, Produced and Arranged by Jonah Smith
© Jonah Smith (Voluptuary Music, ASCAP). All rights reserved.

Except “Carla” written by Todd Snider (BUG Music, ASCAP)

Complete lyrics can be viewed at www.jonahsmith.com

Personnel

Jonah Smith – Vocals, Piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Electric Harpsichord, Musser Celeste Piano, B3 Organ, Acoustic Guitar on “Big Box Town”
Ben Rubin – Electric and Acoustic Bass
Andy Stack – Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Vocals
Doug Wamble – Resonator Guitar, Harmony Vocals on “Carla”
David Soler – Electric Guitar, Pedal Steel, Effects
Gintas Janusonis – Drums and Percussion
Ryan Gruss – Drums and Percussion on “I Came Here To Love You”
Rob Hecht – Fiddle on “Under The Gun”
Dave Eggar – Cello
Entcho Todorov- Violin
Louis Schwadron – French Horn
Sasha Dobson – Harmony Vocals on “Under The Gun”
Maya Azucena – Harmony Vocals on “Buzzing Flies”
Mike Bram – Harmonica on “Live One”
Danny Molad – Additional Percussion

Recorded at Mission Sound in Brooklyn, NY by Oliver Strauss
Recorded at Grand Street Recording in Brooklyn, NY by Ken Rich and Tomek Miernowski
Addition Recording done at Brooklyn Recording by Andy Taub
Additional Engineering by Aaron Whitby, Andy Stack and Jonah Smith
All songs mixed by Danny Molad
Except “Live One” mixed by Allen Farmelo
Mastered by Nathan James at The Vault Mastering Studio
Art direction – Joshua Marc Levy
Copyist – Max Gallico

Thank you very much to everyone who contributed their talents and time to making this record including everyone listed above.

Thank you to all of my fans, friends and family that contributed to making this record a reality especially those listed below.

Elizabeth Smith, Malcolm & Sandy Smith, Terry Smith, Bob & Paula Zeman, Corinne & Lynn Smith, Bill Fuhs, Dave Beatie, Nestor Rivera, Jr., Yanni Feder & Menna Olvera at One Route Media, Kevin Darby, Nikki Olsen, Greta VelezDeVilla, Paul Petronella, Incitatus Coins, Elisabeth Lyons & Doug Mangel, Anna Holbein, Beedie Savage & Carol Lowell, Deb & Tim Anderson, Josh & Sherri Smith, Andrew Griscom, Charlene Heinmuller, Clint Tankersley, Oakley Duryea, Gary Bowden, Mike Mongulla, Jennifer Laun, Gregory Gude, Caitlin Hurley & Mike Chico, Jon Vanhala, Tomas OKeefe, Ra McGuire, Maria & Keith DiBuduo, Rachael & Brian Schwartz, Christine & Jimmy Courtney, Charlene Heinmuller, Christopher Garver, Jeremy Master, Ellen Kahan Zager, Paul Petronella, Derek and Tina, and Erik Deutsch (for letting me use my favorite bar of his string arrangement for “There’s Nothing To Do In This Town”)

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