Slaid’s CDs and downloads are available generally on Amazon, iTunes, etc. But here at slaid.com is the only place where you can get them autographed!

If you’d like an autograph just enter the autographee’s name (“for Joe”) and any special message (“Happy Birthday!”) in the “special instructions” box as you check out of PayPal.

Plus . . .  It comes with two free coasters – available only at slaid.com and at shows.

Sorrow & Smoke (2011)

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disc one

1 Hard to Believe
2 Horseshoe Lounge
3 Drinkin’ Days
4 Black T Shirt
5 No Angel Knows      free download
6 Below
7 Tumbleweed Stew
8 Sinner’s Prayer
9 Broke Down
10 Wishbones
11 New Year’s Day

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disc two

1 Cry      free download
2 Lydia
3 Green Mountains and Me
4 Horses
5 Texas Top Hand
6 Rolling Stone from Texas    video here      …and the real deal here
7 Breakfast in Hell
8 Key Chain
9 One Good Year
10 Go for the Gold      free download (with extended intro)

Slaid Cleaves – vocals and acoustic guitar
Michael O’Connor – acoustic lead guitar and vocals
Oliver Steck – accordion, harmonica, trumpet, vocals

Recorded on 4/20/2010 and 6/29/2010 at the Horseshoe Lounge, Austin, Texas.

Want it autographed?  Just type in the autographee’s name (and any special message) in the “special instuctions” box as you check out of PayPal.

1.   “Shiloh”/Warren Hood and Rich Brotherton
2.   “Hard Times”/Drew Nelson
3.   “Swing Low”/Rebecca Folsom and Celeste Krenz
4.   “She Moved Through the Fair”/Slaid Cleaves
5.   “Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier”/Erin Ivey
6.   “The Last Rose of Summer”/Chuck Pinnell
7.   “Lorena”/Jimmy LaFave
8.   “Oh! Susanna”/Suzi Stern
9.   “Jack of Diamonds”/Jon Dee Graham
10.   “Colorado Trail”/Eliza Gilkyson
11.   “The Yellow Rose of Texas”/Rich Brotherton
12.   “Red River Valley”/James McMurtry
13.   “I Ride an Old Paint”/Rita Hosking
14.   “The Streets of Laredo”/Slaid Cleaves
15.   “Home Sweet Home”/Jeff Plankenhorn

Everything You Love . . . (2009)

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Cry      video here
Hard to Believe
Beyond Love
Green Mountains and Me
Run Jolee Run
Dreams
Black T Shirt
Tumbleweed Stew
Twistin’
Beautiful Thing      video here
Temporary      video here

“Everything You Love plays seamlessly, like one of Lucinda Williams’ classic early albums, pristine, honest, and lingering.” –Jim Caligiuri, Austin Chronicle

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Holiday Special: Everything You Love download cards are just $5 each, postage paid, for a limited time (great stocking stuffers)! Includes cover art and all 11 songs in mp3 format.

Ribbon of Highway (2008)

Ribbon of Highway Endless Skyway

A labor of love for all involved, this two-disc set captures some of today’s finest folk performers paying homage to one of the creative geniuses of the 20th century.  Part memorial service, part American history lesson, part hootenany, this collection of live performances will get you thinking about what it means to have the soul of an American.

Featuring Bob Childers, Jimmy LaFave, Joel Rafael, Slaid Cleaves, Eliza Gilkyson, Sara Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Ellis Paul, Kevin Welch, Michael Fracasso with special appearances by Pete Seeger and Fred Hellerman.

Unsung (2006)

Devil’s Lullaby  by Michael O’Connor
Another Kind of Blue by Peter Keane  featured on NBC’s Parenthood!
Everette  by Steve Brooks
Oh Roberta  by Graham Weber
Racecar Joe  by Adam Carroll
Call It Sleep  by Chris Montgomery
Millionaire  by David Olney
Fairest of Them All  by Ana Egge
Flowered Dresses  by Karen Poston
Working Stiff  by Melvern Taylor
Getaway Car  by Michael O’Connor
Song for June  by JJ Baron      video here

Unsung is a special project for Slaid, a collection of songs by friends and colleagues including Karen Poston, Michael O’Connor and Adam Carroll.  

Wishbones (2004)

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Wishbones
Road Too Long
Drinkin’ Days
Sinner’s Prayer
Tiger Tom Dixon’s Blues
Below        video here
Quick as Dreams
Horses
Hearts Break
Borderline
New Year’s Day

Wishbones is the long-awaited follow-up to 2000′s award-winning album, Broke Down. Produced by Austin Hall of Famer Gurf Morlix

Holiday Sampler EP (2001)

5-song CD includes:

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Monster In Law

November Skies

You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

One Good Year (holiday mix)

You Don’t Have to Tell Me

Broke Down (2000)

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Broke Down
One Good Year      Russell Crowe’s version here!
Horseshoe Lounge
Cold and Lonely      video here
Breakfast in Hell
Lydia
Bring it On
This Morning I Am Born Again
Key Chain
I Feel the Blues Moving In

Slaid’s breakout album. Featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, Mountain Stage and World Cafe, “Broke Down” spent 5 weeks at the top of Gavin’s Americana radio chart and appeared in the following Top Ten lists: P2, No Depression, KGSR (Austin), WFUV (New York), Austin American Statesman, Austin Chronicle.

No Angel Knows (1997)

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Not Going Down
No Angel Knows
Dance Around the Fire
Jennie’s All Right
Look Back at Me
Wrecking Ball
The River Runs
Don’t Tell Me
Skunk Juice
Last of the V-8s
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Slaid’s first national release, on Philo/Rounder, shot to #2 on the Gavin Americana radio chart in early 1997, garnering critial praise nationwide and leading to the start of Slaid’s recent worldwide touring schedule.