Big Wide Grin

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Big Wide Grin
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Studio album by
Released2001
Studio Groove Masters, Santa Monica, California; A Cut Above Studio, Nashville, Tennessee; House of Blues Studios; Sony Music Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Delta blues
Label Sony Wonder
Producer Kevin McCormick
Keb' Mo' chronology
Sessions at West 54th: Recorded Live in New York
(2000)
Big Wide Grin
(2001)
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Keb' Mo'
(2003)

Big Wide Grin is the sixth studio album by Keb' Mo', it was released in 2001 by the Sony Wonder record label.

Track listing

  1. "Everybody Be Yoself" (Chic Streetman) - 4:59
  2. "Love Train" (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff) - 4:29
  3. "Don't Say No" (Kevin Moore, Cynthia Tarr) - 4:17
  4. "Infinite Eyes" (Essra Mohawk, Kevin Moore, John Lewis Parker) - 4:57
  5. "Grandma's Hands" (Bill Withers) - 3:30
  6. "Color Him Father" (R. Lewis Spencer) - 3:3
  7. "Family Affair" (Sylvester Stewart) - 3:47
  8. "The Flat Fleet Floogie" (Slim Gaillard, Bud Green, Slam Stewart) - 2:04
  9. "I Am Your Mother Too" (Kevin Moore, Zuriani Zonneveld) - 4:03
  10. "Big Yellow Taxi" (Joni Mitchell) - 3:45
  11. "Isn't She Lovely" (Stevie Wonder) - 5:16
  12. "America the Beautiful" (Katherine Lee Bates, Samuel Augustus Ward) - 3:35

Sergio Gonzalez - Drums ( tr. 1,4,5,7,9 ) Laval Belle - drums ( tr. 2, 3) Roy McCurdy - drums ( 8,11 ) Freddie Washington - Bass (tr. 1,4,9 ) Kevin McCormick - Bass ( tr. 2,3,5,7,10 ), synth ( tr.7 ) Bob Hurst - Upright bass (tr. 8, 11) Luis Conte – Percussion (tr.1,2,4,5,9,10) Jeff Young - piano, organ (tr. 1, 7), keyboards ( tr.2, 3), piano (tr. 8, 11) Leo Nocentelli – Guitar ( tr.1 ) Greg Leisz - Mandola, Pedal Steel Guitar (tr.2) Clayton Gibb - Banjo ( tr. 3 ) Joellen Friedkin – Electric Piano ( tr.4 ) Gerald Albright – Tenor Saxophone ( tr.7 ), Charlie "Tuna" Dennis - guitar ( tr. 7 )



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