Smartie Mine (1999) is Iowa native singer/songwriter Dan Bern's follow-up to Fifty Eggs.
Track listing Unless otherwise noted, all tracks by Dan Bern
"Smartie Mine" – 4:20 "One Thing Real" – 5:41 "Tiger Woods" – 3:07 "Chelsea Hotel" – 4:54 "City of Models" – 3:19 "Krautmeyer" – 3:55 "Crosses" – 5:18 "Colors" – 3:25 "Airplane Blues" (Sleepy John Estes, Lightnin' Hopkins) – 8:39 "Freight Train Blues" (McDowell) – 4:52 "Talkin' Woody, Bob, Bruce & Dan Blues" – 5:09 "Ballerina" – 6:40 "Simple" – 8:52 "Beautiful Trees" – 2:41 "Joe Van Gogh" – 4:15 "Little Russian Girl" – 3:39 "Gamblin' With My Love" (Pete Rose) – 5:36 "Murderer" – 4:51 "Alia" – 3:50 "Two-Month Affair" – 3:26 "Baby Love" (Wainwright) – 4:40 "Sculpter" – 4:56 "Dark Chocolate" – 3:42 "Decadent Town" – 4:28 "Hooker" – 7:32 "Cocaine Blues/Blue Jay Way" (Davis, George Harrison) – 6:29 "True Revolutionaries" – 8:27
Personnel
Dan Bern – Organ, Guitar, Harmonica, Cello, Vocals, Art Direction, Illustrations, Paintings Jarrod Kaplan – Drums, Djembe Tige DeCoster – Bass, Fretless Bass Wil Masisak – Keyboards, Vocals, Found Objects Martha Wainwright – Vocals (Lead Vocal on "Baby Love") Eben Grace – Electric Guitar (track 16) & Lap Steel (track 13)
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