Track Listing

01. Few And Far Between [ 3:54 ] Lyrics | Real Audio
02. No Riders [ 3:29 ] Lyrics
03. True Friends [ 3:29 ] Lyrics | Real Audio
04. If You Change Your Mind [ 4:25 ] Lyrics | Real Audio
05. Love Me Like That [ 3:22 ] Lyrics
06. Playing With Fire [ 4:56 ] Lyrics | Real Audio
07. I Don't Make Promises (I Can't Break) [ 3:48 ] Lyrics
08. Hard To Make A Stand [ 4:01 ] Lyrics
09. The Weight [ 5:26 ] Lyrics | Real Audio
10. Never Enough [ 3:47 ] Lyrics
11. I'm Coming Home [ 3:12 ] Lyrics

Strong and self-determined in spite of her years, Shannon cowrote 7 of the 11 songs on her debut album, Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions.

The album hosts such notable writing cohorts as guitarist David Grissom (ex-John Mellencamp, Joe Ely, Storyville), Twin Citians Kevin Bowe and Bruce McCabe, and the Grammy-winning writing team of Tommy Sims, Wayne Kirkpatrick, and Gordon Kennedy.

Curfman renders her world in vivid colors on the rockin' first single "True Friends," the tough-minded "Few And Far Between," the bluesy "No Riders," and "Never Enough," a yearning ballad. "I love all the songs on the record, but especially the ones I had a chance to write," Shannon says. "They're not photographs of my life at that time, but I'd like to think they're about subjects and experiences that people can relate to."

Shannon also got the chance to work with her long-time friend and inspiration (and fellow Fargo native) Jonny Lang, four years her elder. Lang co-wrote the bold "Love Me Like That," and plays guitar on 3 songs on the album. Shannon has enjoyed following his progress up the charts. "We wound up going to one of his concerts once, bought his CD, bought all his posters and hung 'em up on the wall. I was just mesmerized by him."

With the release of Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions, Shannon can finally take Lang off that pedestal. Now she can take her place alongside him in the growing list of young artists who are rejecting the heavily produced videocentric fluff being made by many teen groups these days, in favor of music with a classic sound and a respect for the history of rock, blues, and R&B. "A lot of my friends listen to the other kind of stuff, and that's fine," she says. "But a lot of them are also getting into blues and rock and Jimi Hendrix, and I think that's really great."

Album Credits:

Produced, Engineered & Mixed by Tom Tucker. Additional Production by Shannon Curfman and Kevin Bowe
Recorded at Master Mix Studios, Seedy Underbelly, and The Terrarium.
Assistant Engineers: Joe Lepinski, Shane Washington, Brian Hanna, Paul Jarmer, James Harley
Mixed at Master Mix Studios, Minneapolis , MN . "True Friends" mixed by Tom Lord-Alge at Encore Studios, Burbank , CA
Mastered by Ted Jenson at Sterling Sound, NYC
Jonny Lang appears courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.
Ricky Peterson appears courtesy of Windham Hill Records
Extra snare drums from John "Bongo" Haga