Blues Thing Too Liner Notes

t’s A Blues Thing on Icehouse/Priority Records Tony Sarno and the screamin’ blue demons: Tony Sarno-Vocals, Guitars Keith Christopher- Bass, BG Vocals Greg Morrow- Drums Paul Provost- Hammond B-3 Produced by Mark Maynard and Tony Sarno Executive Producer Mark Maynard Recorded and Mixed by Rusty McFarland Mastered by Larry Nix Additional engineering by Rick Caughron Assistant engineer- Buddy Nementz Recorded at Crosstown Recorders Memphis, TN May 8-16 1995 Pre-production- Junkyard Dog Studios Nashville, TN Additional Hammond B-3- Greg Redding Additional Bass-Rusty McFarland Guitar tech- Michael McLaughlin Counsel- Michael Bongiorno Cover photos- Steve Roberts Studio photos- Mirjana Antic Art Direction/Design-Sandy Lowrance Tony Sarno uses Naylor Amplifiers, R.Cocco strings, and Lindy Fralin Pickups.  Memphis is magic. The home of the blues. Thanks so much to Johnny Phillips and Mark Maynard for the wonderful opportunity to make this record. Love and gratitude to Ginny, Gerry & Lisa Sarno for their love and support. Thanks to all my friends for their support and encouragement. I will never forget the seven days it took to record this music, I hope you will enjoy the album as much as I did making it. -Tony Sarno Dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Rasku Murphy. Special thanks (in alphabetical order) Mike Abbott, John Alper, Dee Archer, Peter Bance, David Beal, Sal Bernardi, The Bongiorno family, Al & Nanette Briggs, John Briggs, Pat Buchanan, Dan Caccavo, Cat Campbell, Vin Cicio, The Chambers family,The Christopher family, Mike Clark, Chad Collins, Otto & Manus Cooymans, Joe D’Angelo, Franz DeKuyser, Wally & Hardy Delay, Patricia Downey, Gordon Edwards, Phil Ernst, Doug  Ferguson, Mike Ferrante,Werner Fritzching, Stanley Gaines, Chris &Vicki  Gilliat, Jeff Golub, Carol Gore, Jack Hall, Kristina Hanan, Beth Haralson,  Bob Hardwick and Orchestra, Billy Hilson, Charles Hood, John Hughes & family, Greg & Arlana Husted, Jefferson Ketcham, B.B. King, Aad Kramer, Mark Knopfler, David Kumin, Connie Landis, John Lemon, David McChesney, Rodney Mills,  Clifford Hendrickson, Kevin Jennings, Huey Lewis, Rob Light, Kati Mac,  Perry Margouleff, Lisa Maynard, Carol McFarland, John Merrit, The Murphy family, Bob Nastro, Antoinette Nastro & family, Doug Pell, Alex Perialas, Dave Perkins, Jennifer Pierce, Jan Pijenburg, Lillian Rijnders,Jeff Rowland, The Sarno family, Eddy & Billy-Joe Shaver, Piper Shmitt, Brad Simon, Jack  Sonni, Matt Steinfeld, The Sykoras, T.J. Tindall, Sherry Thorn, Tim & Kako Thornton, Jim Todd, George & Cindy Tulloch, Keith Walsh, Mike Watkins, Gym Wilson, David Wolff, Billy Williams, Henk Von Kray, Max Von Wening, Chris Whitley, Charles Zambello. Remembering fellow musicians whose instruments were silenced too soon. Linc Chamberland, Randy Delay, Ray Jarrell, Jim Naylor, Dan Shmitt, and Toney Watkins. T. S. & The Screamin’ Blue Demons Fan Club  Pat Lydon P.O. Box 210432 Nashville, TN 37221-0432  (INSIDE COVER) 1. 1 AIN’T SUPERSTITIOUS – Willie Dixon 2. BLUE SHADOWS – L.C. Glenn (BMI) 3. WHO TO BELIEVE – John Jaworowicz ,Warren Haynes ( ASCAP / BMI) 4. TALK TO ME BABY – Champion Jack Dupree 5. ALONE IN THE DARK – John Hiatt 6. GAMBLER’S BLUES – B.B. King 7. WALKIN’ BLUES – Robert Johnson 8. MONEY ON THE SIDE – Dan Daley (BMI) 9. NELLIE FETCH THE HOSEPIPE – T. Sarno (BMI) 10. MY LADY AND MY DOG – T. Sarno (ASCAP) 11. CRYBABY BLUES – T. Sarno (ASCAP) 12. SCREAMIN’ BLUES DEMON (IT’S A BLUES THING) – T. Sarno , Mark Maynard (ASCAP)