SNAPSHOTS

LINER NOTES: First, I’d like to thank God Almighty for all the many ways he has blessed me over the years. Next, I’d like to thank my dad for showing me what is really important in life: service to others. I’d like to thank my wife, Cynthia and son, Scott for their patience and all of the fine people and musicians who helped make this CD such a tremendous experience. Last but not least, I’d like to thank Dave Katzman for all of his insight and suggestions without which this CD would not have been possible. – Jim Greene

Dave would like to thank first and foremost Jim Greene. Thanks for a great album and for becoming a true hermano. Many thanks to Sean “The Touch” Morrison for your amazing skills and for being my right hand man. To Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Bob Stroger, and Willie Kent. It was an honor to have you gentlemen on this project. To Nick, Daryl, Matt, Sheridia, Amy: Thanks for your great energy. Thanks to Bruce Quintos and Emerald Society for the bagpipes and Myles Goddard for the Ojibwa chant. Special thanks to Todd Seefeld of Guitar Remedies, you rock. Thanks to Jesse, sweet Amy, my Mom y mi Familia.

This CD is dedicated to the Memory of James C. Greene Sr. D.D.S. and is called “Snapshots” because each one these songs is a still photograph representing different times in the evolution of the blues. – J.G.

ALBUM CREDITS:
Diamond Jim Greene: vocals and guitars
Nick Moss: electric guitar, lead guitar (3)
Dave Katzman: lead guitar (10), acoustic guitar (14)
Bob Stroger: bass (1, 2, 6, 10, 13)
Willie Kent: bass, background vocals (3)
Matthew Skoller: harmonica (6)
Daryl Couts: Hammond B3 organ (10), piano (13)
Willie Smith: drums (1, 2, 3, 6,9, 10,13) background vocals (3),
bodran (5)
Amy Lowe & Sherdia Shelby: background vocals (10)
Officer Bruce Quintos: bagpipe; and bodran during end march (5)

Myles Goddard: Ojibwa Death song (5)
Translation:
You are going friend
You are going friend
Brave Hearted One
Brave Hearted One
Now you are as a star in the heaven.

Producer: Dave Katzman
Executive Producer: Jim Greene
Mixed by: Dave Katzman
Except 13 mixed by Sean Morrison
Engineered by: Sean Morrison
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Blam Recording, East Rogers Park, Chicago.
Art Direction & Design: Kate Moss, Moonshine Design