Smartie Mine

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Smartie Mine
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 9, 1999
Genre Folk rock
Length136:43
Label Chartmaker
Producer Dan Bern, Wil Masisak
Dan Bern chronology
Fifty Eggs
(1998)
Smartie Mine
(1999)
New American Language
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Smartie Mine (1999) is Iowa native singer/songwriter Dan Bern's follow-up to Fifty Eggs .

Contents

Track listing

Unless otherwise noted, all tracks by Dan Bern

  1. "Smartie Mine" – 4:20
  2. "One Thing Real" – 5:41
  3. "Tiger Woods" – 3:07
  4. "Chelsea Hotel" – 4:54
  5. "City of Models" – 3:19
  6. "Krautmeyer" – 3:55
  7. "Crosses" – 5:18
  8. "Colors" – 3:25
  9. "Airplane Blues" (Sleepy John Estes, Lightnin' Hopkins) – 8:39
  10. "Freight Train Blues" (McDowell) – 4:52
  11. "Talkin' Woody, Bob, Bruce & Dan Blues" – 5:09
  12. "Ballerina" – 6:40
  13. "Simple" – 8:52
  14. "Beautiful Trees" – 2:41
  15. "Joe Van Gogh" – 4:15
  16. "Little Russian Girl" – 3:39
  17. "Gamblin' With My Love" (Pete Rose) – 5:36
  18. "Murderer" – 4:51
  19. "Alia" – 3:50
  20. "Two-Month Affair" – 3:26
  21. "Baby Love" (Wainwright) – 4:40
  22. "Sculpter" – 4:56
  23. "Dark Chocolate" – 3:42
  24. "Decadent Town" – 4:28
  25. "Hooker" – 7:32
  26. "Cocaine Blues/Blue Jay Way" (Davis, George Harrison) – 6:29
  27. "True Revolutionaries" – 8:27

Personnel

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