Cobbler Shop

1. Give Your Mama One Smile
(Big Bill Broonzy for Lil Green)

2. Ferry Boat Blues
(Little Miss Higgins)

3. Romance In The Dark
(Lil Green)

4. Jimmy Jube-Jube Strut
(Little Miss Higgins & Foy Taylor)

5. How & Why & When
(Little Miss Higgins)

6. Gone For Good
(Little Miss Higgins)

7. Rule Breaker
(Little Miss Higgins & Foy Taylor)

8. Radville
(Little Miss Higgins)

9. Pete’s Back Shack Blues
(Little Miss Higgins & Foy Taylor)

10. She Wouldn’t Give Me None
(Memphis Minnie)

11. It Takes A lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
(Bob Dylan, arranged by Little Miss Higgins)

12. Bake My Biscuits
(Memphis Minnie)

13. Slaughterhouse
(Little Miss Higgins)

14. You Turn Me On I’m A Radio
(Joni Mitchell, arranged by Little Miss Higgins & Foy Taylor)

In a shop made for shoe repair, the Cobbler Shop Sessions were captured. The music was recorded mostly live with the exception where Foy and I couldn’t play more than one instrument at once or sing three-part harmony with one voice. The music is alive and in the moment, not unlike a lot of the music we love and listen to. Some things were rehearsed; in other instances we caught little treasures in time. The cobbler shop provided warmth from the cold outside, fire for the music, and passion for the craft of sewing together the Cobbler Shop Sessions. Enjoy the music and I hope you’re wearing your favourite pair of shoes. Love—LMH

Players In Alphabetical Order

Big Dave Mclean*…….……………Harmonica
Flo Frank.…………………………..Executive Producer, Gypsy Consultant
Foy Taylor**………………...…......Guitar, Fretless Bass, Tenor Banjo, Vocals
Glen Thompson**………………….Photography (High Country Graphics)
Ley Ward**…………………...........Recording Engineer, Producer, Layout Design
Little Miss Higgins…….…................Vocals, Guitar, Slide Guitar, Producer, Artwork
Melodi “Pistol” Hawkesford**..……Drums

* Big Dave McLean appears courtesy of Stony Plain Records on Radville and The Numb Foot Struts
** Biscuit Bakers on Bake My Biscuits

Setting

A shop built for shoe repair in the 1920’s, Meacham Saskatchewan.

Recorded on various dates at various times of day during the fall and winter 2004-2005.

Thank You

Flo Frank and Ley Ward, Glen Thompson, Big Dave McLean & Stony Plain Records, Melodi “Pistol” Hawkesford, Kim Sutherland & the “Kidz”, Jean King & Ann Donovan, Jimmy, Arlo, The Radvillians, Dean Hoffart “Cathedral Guitars”, Mama & Papa Higgins, Mama & Papa Mark, Darla “Sugar Puss” Biccum, Keith “Dean the Screen” Lee and all our friends and family.