Broke Down
Songs & Credits
1. Broke Down by Slaid Cleaves and Rod Picott
(Slaid Cleaves-Rod Picott/Happy Valley Music-Welding Rod Music, BMI)
Ivan Brown - upright bass
Slaid Cleaves - vocal, acoustic guitar
Mark Cousins - drums
Darcie Deaville - background vocal
Ian McLagan - hammond organ
Gurf Morlix - electric guitar
2. One Good Year by Steve Brooks and Slaid Cleaves
(Steve Brooks-Slaid Cleaves/Happy Valley Music, BMI)
Slaid Cleaves - vocal, acoustic guitar
Gurf Morlix - bass, acoustic lap steel guitar, high strung guitar, mandolin, magnus organ
Chris Searles - drums, tamborine
3. Horseshoe Lounge by Slaid Cleaves and Karen Poston
(Slaid Cleaves-Karen Poston/Happy Valley Music-Pistol Girl Music, BMI)
Ivan Brown - upright bass, background vocal
Slaid Cleaves - vocal, acoustic guitar
Mark Cousins - drums
Gurf Morlix - electric guitar, lap steel guitar, tamborine, background vocal
4. Cold and Lonely by Slaid Cleaves
(Slaid Cleaves/Happy Valley Music, BMI)
Charles Arthur - lap steel guitar
Ivan Brown - upright bass, background vocal
Slaid Cleaves - vocal
Gurf Morlix - octafone, electric guitar, magnus organ, claves, bongos, background vocal
5. Breakfast in Hell by Slaid Cleaves
(Slaid Cleaves/Happy Valley Music, BMI)
Charles Arthur - electric guitar
Ivan Brown - upright bass, background vocal
Slaid Cleaves - vocal, acoustic guitar
Mark Cousins - drums
Gurf Morlix - six string bass, background vocals, long bolt
6. Bring It On by Slaid Cleaves and Rod Picott
(Slaid Cleaves-Rod Picott//Happy Valley Music-Welding Rod Music, BMI)
Charles Arthur - electric guitar
Slaid Cleaves - vocal, acoustic guitar
Mark Cousins - drums
Gurf Morlix - bass, electric guitar, magnus organ
7. Lydia by Karen Poston
(Karen Poston/Pistol Girl Music, BMI)
Charles Arthur - lap steel guitar
Ivan Brown - upright bass
Slaid Cleaves - vocal, acoustic guitar
Mark Cousins - drums
Gurf Morlix - acoustic lead guitar
Karen Poston - background vocal
Paul Sweeney - mandolin
8. This Morning I Am Born Again by Woody Guthrie
(music: Slaid Cleaves-lyrics: Woody Guthrie/Woody Guthrie Publications, BMI)
Ivan Brown - acoustic bass, background vocal
Slaid Cleaves - vocal, acoustic guitar
Mark Cousins - drums
Gurf Morlix - electric guitar
9. Key Chain by Slaid Cleaves
(Slaid Cleaves/Happy Valley Music, BMI)
Ivan Brown - acoustic bass, background vocal
Slaid Cleaves - vocal, acoustic guitar
Gurf Morlix - electric guitar, background vocal
10. I Feel the Blues Moving In by Del McCoury
(Del McCoury/Happy Valley Music, BMI)
Produced by Cool Beans!
Slaid Cleaves - vocal, acoustic guitar
Laura Nadeau - vocal
Janek Siegele - vocal, lead acoustic guitar
Apology & Correction: Due to a typesetting error, musician credits for "Lydia" were truncated. Left off the first printing of the Broke Down booklet are these two great musicians who contributed to "Lydia:"
Karen Poston - background vocals
Paul Sweeney - mandolin
My sincere apologies to these friends of mine.
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Dedicated to the memory of Donald Lindley 1951-1999
Produced by Gurf Morlix
Recorded and mixed by Gurf Morlix at Rootball, Austin, Texas
except I Feel the Blues Moving In recorded by Cool Beans!
Mastered by Jim Wilson at at Cedar Creek, Austin, Texas
Photography by Will Van Overbeek
Darcie Deaville appears courtesy Redwing Records
Gurf Morlix uses Dean Markley strings
Big Thanks go out to the musicians and writers who helped make this record what it is: Charles "King" Arthur, Steve Brooks, Ivan Brown, Mark Cousins, Darcie Deaville, Ian McLagan, Laura Nadeau, Karen Poston, Rod Picott, Chris Searles, Janek Siegele, and Paul Sweeney.
Special Thanks go out Shay Quillen and JJ Rassler at Rounder, and especially to Ken Irwin for giving me a shot; to Seymour Guenther, Nancy Fly and Martha Guthrie at Nancy Fly Agency, and to Joan Kornblith for keeping me busy out there; to Ray Wylie Hubbard, Norm Parenteau and Rod Picott for friendship and guidance; to Jim Wilson and Fred Remmert for patience and professionalism; and to The Eastside Flash for gracious technical assistance.
Very Special Thanks to Brende Fuller for supreme hospitality, squash blossoms and Red Dog, and to Gurf Morlix for patience, vision, skill, professionalism, friendship, and more patience; thank you for sharing your time and talent with me.
The Slaid Cleaves Support System Hall of Fame: Craig and Jenny Cleaves, Jim Doolittle, Nancy Jones, Kevin Guyer, Greg Nettles, Kerry O'Donoghue and Barbara Roseman.
And I could do none of this without the love and support of Karen Cleaves.
Booking by Nancy Fly Agency (512) 288-2023 www.nflyagency.com
Visit Slaid on the web at www.slaid.com
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