Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions


Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions is the debut album by American blues-rock artist Shannon Curfman, released in 1999, for Arista Records when she was 14 years old. The title comes from a line in the Sheryl Crow song "Hard to Make a Stand", which Curfman covers on this album. The record was produced by Shannon Curfman herself, along with Kevin Bowe, and Tom Tucker.
Two singles were taken from it: "True Friends" and "Playing with Fire," both of which charted in the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the former peaking at #27, in 1999, and the latter only reaching #37, in 2000. As for the album, instead, it got to #3 in the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart, in 1999, also later reaching a lower #39 on the Heatseekers chart, in North America, in 2000.

Track listing

  1. "Few and Far Between" – 3:54
  2. "No Riders" – 3:29
  3. "True Friends" – 3:29
  4. "If You Change Your Mind" – 4:25
  5. "Love Me Like That" – 3:22
  6. "Playing with Fire" – 4:56
  7. "I Don't Make Promises " – 3:48
  8. "Hard to Make a Stand" – 4:01
  9. "The Weight" – 5:26
  10. "Never Enough" – 3:47
  11. "I'm Coming Home" – 3:12

    Personnel

Album – Billboard
YearChartPosition
1999Top Blues Albums3
2000Heatseekers39

Singles – Billboard
YearSingleChartPosition
1999"True Friends"Mainstream Rock Tracks27
2000"Playing with Fire"Mainstream Rock Tracks37