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The phrase “smoke and mirrors” implies deceit, but it also suggests how difficult it can be to "see" things clearly thru life’s many distractions. The “Smoke” disc on this double disc CD is full band with more of an electric, “smokin” feel to it whereas the “Mirrors” disc is almost all acoustic.
The recordings feature performances of musicians from Austin, Nashville, Arkansas and Leicester, England and include vignettes of characters from the gold rush, members of my family including my only son, victims of the 2011 fires in Bastop Texas, a man named Jesus, sailors, drunkards, a local TV personality and star crossed lovers. I hope we have created something magic in a world where so many things we are attracted to are just shiny objects that are empty vessels made to look pretty by the use of...smoke and mirrors. |
SMOKE Disc
Turn Around
North of Baton Rouge
Is it Ever Gonna Rain
Cardinal Lane
Flesh and Blood
Every Doubt Has A Shadow
Texas Women and Their Diamonds
I'm Still Here
Girl on the Early News
Hope
Va Ya Condios
MIRRORS Disc
Days In Death Valley
While the World Falls Away
Paintings of the Masters
She Cries Each Time She Hears a Train
Widows Walk
Home
Popsicle Man
Man Named Jesus
Father McKinsey and Eleanor Rigby
Lime on the Rim
Don't Ever Sell Yer Saddle
Promis and the Promised Land
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(to be released October 15, 2009 in Europe and
February 14, 2010 in the US)
When you listen to Bob Cheevers, you'll be hearing a singer-songwriter at top of his game. "Bob came to Texas, looked around and began to write about the things he saw. His observations about Texas made me wanna go there...and I'm from Texas. Not only is "Tall Texas Tales" a wonderful travelogue of my great state, it is full of songs that could only be written by a man whose life is rich with experience and deep insight. Bob Cheeevers is an American classic...make no mistake about it! (producer- Stephen Doster) |
Grown Up People
Luckenbach
Texas Is An Only Child
Budget Motel
Turquoise Heart With A Texas Smile
Give This Heart
Mushroom Cloud Lil
Is It Ever Gonna Rain
One Good Rib
Falling
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Toward the end of my '06 UK summer tour, I was playing in Southampton and noticed a lovely woman sketching me during the show. Afterward, I was introduced to the artist who presented me with the sketch (which appears in the moon on the CD cover). Thus began a mystical journey and symbiotic relationship that inspired forty poems and sixteen songs in a few months time. From this body of work came Fiona's World, my latest CD of Delta-Celtic music which, when "translated", means "Celtic tunes dipped in Mississippi Delta mud."A slight departure from the sound that has turned so many into "Cheevers believers," it maintains the same heart and soul of previous critically acclaimed releases. Believers will not be disappointed! |
What I've Done For Love
Fiona's World
Pictures of Strangers
New Forest Rain
Plans To Meet In Paris
Only Roses
New Forest Girl
Every Beauty
Fiona's Moon
Your Whole Life
New Forest Hoe Down
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" My first CD was Gettysburg To Graceland featuring characters who lived along the Mississippi Delta. This collection of songs has more of the same in addition to some songs with characters from the old West. What we have here is a musical road paved with tales about people, places and things from Texas To Tennessee. And as I’ve said before...I don’t know if these stories are true, but they happened to me." |
Drivin' That Mercury
Rag and Bone Man
Me and Dan and the Spoonman
Pearls Of Ivy Road
The Soul of Savannah
Texas To Tennessee
Jesse Lee Kincade
I Need To Slow Down
Free Now
Down Home Back Woods Hillbilly Fool
Under the Bayou Moon
Memphis 'Til Monday
Girl In Amarillo
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" Singer/songwriter...guitar/vocal...solo/acoustic...one man/one Martin. This collection of songs is the first recording I've done with just voice and instrument. My "We Are All Naked" CD began like that, but I got carried away by the sounds in my head of other vocal and instrumental parts. On that CD, it was right to add those parts. On this one, its right to leave them off. These are more stories written about the naked truth delivered by one man playing his old, black Martin guitar. " |
Horse Shoe Man
Drowning Moon
Common Ground
Rag and Bone Man
Ruby Scarlet and the Sacred Rose
Don't Be Afraid
What You Already Know
Heads Or Tails
Vincent and Elaine
The Quick and the Dead
Free Now
Hell Is Rollin' Down
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"I don't know if these stories are true, but they happened to me." Spending 30 weeks on the Gavin Americana chart, it climbed to #14.
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Delta Gold
Watermelon Jim
The Stories I Write
Le Le Bleue La Pearle
That's What I'll Do Tomorrow
Blue Moon Cafe
The Bottom Line
Put On My Love
Rose Hips
Heroes
Hold Me
Old Soul
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A musical journey spanning the last hundred years passing thru the cradle of the Confederacy ending up at the King's gate. This Gavin Americana top 20 CD was among the CDs from which were chosen the Grammy nominees for Best Contemporary Folk CD of 1998.
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Forty Acres and a Mule
Annalee Saint Pierre
River Gonna Rise
Shoulda Picked Our Own Cotton
Coleen
It's All About Time
My Young Dixie Rose
River Of Jordan
Large Marge
I Saw the King
The Ballad of Caleb Leedy
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Originally conceived as a guitar/vocal record for the UK fans, this group of songs features "the naked truth" about life and love around the turn of the century. It's the most personal and honest of Bob's CDs to date.
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Once In a Lifetime Ride
Help Me With My Heart
We Are All Naked
Memories I'll Keep
The Living Proof
All I Want From Memphis
My Beautiful Suzannah
Blue Delta Dawn
Before You
When the Leaves Turn Gold
That Was Eli
Every Moment Is a Miracle
That's What I Do
That Evening and Forever
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Features 3 songs from each of the last 4 CDs plus two unreleased tracks.
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Once In a Lifetime Ride
Annalee Saint Pierre
River Gonna Rise
The Living Proof
We Are All Naked
The Bottom Line
That's What I'll Do Tomorrow
Me and Dan and the Spoonman
Small Town
The Promise and the Promised Land
Old Soul
The Ballad of Caleb Leedy
Under the Bayou Moon
Popsicle Man
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ARCHIVE SERIES
8 CD Set
$100
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MY SOUTHERN HEART...This double CD set contains Civil War/Southern songs with characters in them whose lives were touched by the war or who knew the conflicts and joys of living in The South.
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Volume 1
The Unknown Soldier
Massa John
Civil Liberties
The Ballad of Caleb Leedy
Shoulda Picked Our Own Cotton
Annalee Saint Pierre
River Gonna Rise
My Southern Heart
40 Acres and a Mule
Delta Gold
Children of Freedom
Volume 2
I Saw the King
Large Marge
Simple Man's Dream
My Young Dixie Rose
Farm Life
High Cotton
Popsicle Man
Drivin' That Mercury
Under the Bayou Moon
Rock of Ages
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CAST OF CHARACTERS...Profiles the imaginary lives of make-believe characters. It's often confusing where Bob's life leaves off and the lives of his characters begin.
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The Ghost of Don Quixote
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Jesse Lee Kincade
Bone Yard Bill
Crossbones
Wandering Rose
Strayheart and MorningDove
Holly Would
Me & Dan & The Spoonman
Bojoilais
Big Man In Key Largo
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MAKING UP TRUE STORIES...Chasing the tail of his muse, the lines continue to blur between the way the world looks thru Bob's eyes and these tales he spins into yarns that often become songs.
$15
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The Glamourous Life
Island In Paradise
Pearls Of Ivy Road
Lime On The Rim
Rocky Mountain Express
In My Wildest Dreams
Miss Taken
Pink and Black
Progress
Destiny Rides Again
When the Music Ends
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HARVEST TIME...Feelings of hope, doubt, belief, longing and faith fill the hearts of this group. These songs harvest some secrets ploughed under by the winds of change and the sands of time...Harvest Time.
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The Promise and the Promised Land
I Need To Slow Down
Church on the Hill
A Closer Look
Blanket of Love
Those Two Hands
Harvest Time
If I Had My Wish
The Ones You Love
The Voice of Abraham
One Of These Days
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12 SONGS YOU'LL NEVER HEAR ON RADIO...Songs dealing with cross-dressers, barnyard romance, nut cases on rooftops with rifles, ex-wives, wild pygmies in the jungle and Tammy Faye Baker.
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My Baby's In Heat
If I Fell Back In Love With Your Sister
I Like Sheep
Underpants
Poor Man's Hope
Old Blind Man In El Paso
We Are All Naked
You Were Always A Housewife
My Next Ex-Wife
This Kind of Life
Welcome to the Heartland
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REGARDS TO NASHVILLE...Stuck in the middle of being too country for LA and not country enough for Nashville, these are some of Bob's favorites from the period when all that seemed to matter.
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Downhome Backwoods Hillbilly Fool
Small Town
Somebody Loves Me Back in Nashville
Blue Lights
Jukebox Romeo
Not Tonight I Have a Heartache
The Girl In Every Song
Keep Your Rubber Side Down
You Wound Up With Me
If This Old House Could Talk
Water Under the Bridge
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THE REAL THING...Absolutely true love stories with honest feelings about real people....love in the early stages when the commitment was strong and hearts seem perfectly in sync...moments in time.
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Love's A Perfect Circle
Springtime On Broadway
Two Can Play the Same Game
In the Early Stages
You Were Always the One
Relentless
One Lonely Night
These Thngs I Will Do For You
Back In My Life Again
Not Just Another Sad Love Song
My Heart Has A Mind Of It's Own
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WHEN THE MUSIC ENDS...If "The Real Thing" is the Ying, then these songs are the Yang. As opposed to representing the powerful locomotive of feelings that pull a love affair along, these are musical tributes to the caboose...the end of love affairs.
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Old Habits Die Hard
Foregone Conclusions
When Amber Turns Blue
Vaya Con Dios
All I Do Is Dream
Falling In Love With Julia
Don't Be Cruel
That's All I Need To Know
Just Part Of The Truth
Lets Not Talk About Tomorrow Night
When The Music Ends
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