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GEAR BAG
Equipment Chris carries when he's on the road"After years of consideration I've come to the conclusion that, within limits, gear is more important as a topic of conversation than as a way of making music. It's just not that important." - Chris Smither
| Guitars | Collings custom 12 fret cutaway Alvarez Yairi (aka The Blue Guitar) Epiphone Texan (1960) Schoenberg Soloist Alvarez-Yairi 12 string (black) Blue Taylor 612-CE Lizard Eye, Serial No. 3 |
| Strings | Elixir |
| Capo | Shubb |
| Tuner | BOSS TU12H |
| Pickup | Who knows what they put in those things? |
| Gig Bag | Mooradian |
| Vocal | Shure 58 |
| DI | Who cares? |
| Foot | Condenser PZM |
GUITAR TUNINGS
Note that most songs are played with a capo on the second fret and the Key given after the tuning refers to the chord shapes used, NOT the actual key.
| A Song for Susan - Parts I and II | Standard Tuning A |
| Already Gone (Flatfoot Blues) | Standard Tuning A |
| Another Way To Find You | Standard Tuning A |
| Bittersweet | Standard Tuning A |
| Blues in the Bottle | Standard Tuning |
| Call Time | Standard Tuning |
| Candy Man | Standard Tuning |
| Can't Shake These Blues | Standard Tuning A |
| Catfish | Standard Tuning A |
| Cave Man | Standard Tuning E |
| Cold Trail Blues | Open D Tuning |
| Confirmation | Standard Tuning |
| Crocodile Man | Standard Tuning |
| Deed I Do | Standard Tuning E |
| Desolation Row | Open G |
| Diplomacy | Standard Tuning |
| Don't It Drag On | Standard Tuning E |
| Don't Make Promises | Standard Tuning E |
| Down in the Flood | Standard Tuning A |
| Drive You Home Again | Standard Tuning E |
| Duncan & Brady | Standard Tuning A |
| Dust My Broom | Open D Tuning (DADF#AD) D |
| Every Mother's Son | Standard Tuning G |
| Father's Day | Standard Tuning |
| Footloose | Open G Tuning (DGDGBD) G |
| Friend of the Devil | Standard Tuning A |
| Get a Better One | Standard Tuning A |
| Glory of Love | Standard Tuning C |
| Green Rocky Road | Open G Tuning (DGDGBD) G |
| Guilty | Standard Tuning C |
| Happier Blue | Standard Tuning A |
| Have You Seen My Baby | Standard Tuning E |
| Help Me Now | Standard Tuning A |
| Hey, Hey, Hey | Open D Tuning (DADF#AD) D |
| High Heel Sneakers/Big Boss Man | Standard Tuning E |
| Hold On I | Open D Tuning (DADF#AD) D |
| Hold On II | Standard Tuning E |
| Homunculus | Standard Tuning G |
| Honeysuckle Dog | Standard Tuning E |
| Hook, Line & Sinker | Standard Tuning E |
| I Am the Ride | Standard Tuning Am |
| I Feel the Same | Standard Tuning Em |
| I Got Mine | Standard Tuning E |
| It Ain't Easy | Standard Tuning E |
| Jailhouse Blues | Standard Tuning E |
| John Hardy | Standard Tuning |
| John Hurt Medley | Open D Tuning (DADF#AD) D |
| Killin' the Blues | Open D Tuning (DADF#AD) D |
| Kind Woman | Open D Tuning |
| Leave the Light On | Open D Tuning |
| Let It Go | Standard Tuning |
| Link of Chain | Standard Tuning E |
| Lola | Standard Tuning |
| Lonely Time | Standard Tuning E |
| Lonesome Georgia Brown | Standard Tuning F |
| Love You Like a Man | Standard Tuning E |
| Magnolia | Standard Tuning A |
| Maybelline | Standard Tuning E |
| Memphis in the Meantime | Open D Tuning (DADF#AD) D |
| Never Needed It More | Standard Tuning |
| Ninety Nine Year Blues | Standard Tuning G |
| No Love Today | Standard Tuning Am |
| No Money Down | Standard Tuning E |
| No More Cane On the Brazos/Mail Order Mystics | Open D Tuning(DADF#AD) D |
| No Reward | Standard Tuning E |
| Once in a Very Blue Moon | Standard Tuning A |
| One Plus One | Standard Tuning E |
| Open Up | Standard Tuning |
| Origin of Species | Standard Tuning |
| Outside In | Standard Tuning |
| Rattlesnake Preacher | Standard Tuning G |
| Rock 'n' Roll Doctor | Standard Tuning E |
| Rosalie | Standard Tuning A |
| Seems So Real | Open D Tuning |
| Shake Sugaree | Open D Tuning (DADF#AD) D |
| Shillin' for the Blues | Standard Tuning |
| Sittin' On Top of the World | Open D Tuning (DADF#AD) D |
| Slow Surprise | Standard Tuning C |
| Small Revelations | Standard Tuning E |
| So Long | Standard Tuning A |
| So Long, Harry Truman | Standard Tuning A |
| Sportin' Life | Standard Tuning E |
| Statesboro Blues | Open D Tuning(DADF#AD) D |
| Steel Guitar | Standard Tuning E |
| Take It All | Standard Tuning E |
| Talk Memphis | Standard Tuning E |
| Tell Me Why You Love Me | Standard Tuning A |
| Thanks To You | Standard Tuning Am |
| The Devil's Real | Standard Tuning Am |
| Time To Go Home | Standard Tuning E |
| Time To Spend | Standard Tuning E |
| Train Home | Standard Tuning |
| Tulane | Standard Tuning E |
| Up On the Lowdown | Standard Tuning A |
| Visions of Johanna | Standard Tuning |
| What Was It You Wanted | Open D Minor Tuning (DADFAD) Dm |
| Winsome Smile | Standard Tuning E |
