Don't It Drag On
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{{Infobox album
| name = Don't It Drag On
| type = album
| artist = Chris Smither
| cover = Dont_It_Drag_On.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1972
| recorded = November 30 – December 4, 1971
| venue =
| studio = Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, New York
| length = 34:56
| label = Poppy, Tomato
| producer = Michael Cuscuna
| chronology = Chris Smither
| prev_title = I'm a Stranger Too!
| prev_year = 1970
| next_title = It Ain't Easy
| next_year = 1984
}}
Don't It Drag On is an album by American singer/songwriter Chris Smither, released in 1972. It was re-released on CD along with I'm a Stranger Too! in 2002.
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 =Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} {{cite web |first=Brett |last=Hartenbach |title= Don't It Drag On > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r89521 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=July 22, 2011}}
|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
|rev2Score = A−{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|accessdate=March 12, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}
}}
Writing for Allmusic, critic Brett Hartenbach called Smither "a great writer who knows when to look elsewhere for material, a masterful guitarist who understands simplicity and a powerful singer with restraint.": and wrote of the album "while the bulk of Smither's material has a ruminative, melancholic tone, don't expect typical singer/songwriter fare." Village Voice critic Robert Christgau also praised the album, writing "Smither writes tough-minded yet numinous post-folk songs that do justice to his adventurous taste in other people's... A smart record."
Track listing
All songs by Chris Smither unless otherwise noted.
- "Lonesome Georgia Brown"
- "Down in the Flood" (Bob Dylan)
- "I've Got Mine"
- "Statesboro Blues" (Blind Willie McTell)
- "Another Way to Find You"
- "No Expectations" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
- "Friend of the Devil" (John Dawson, Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter)
- "Don't It Drag On"
- "Every Mother's Son"
- "Mail Order Mystics"
- "I Feel the Same"
Personnel
- Chris Smither – vocals, guitar
- John Bailey - guitar, autoharp
- Rod Hicks - bass
- Happy Traum - banjo
- Bonnie Raitt - background vocals
- Maria Muldaur - background vocals
- Kathryn Rose - background vocals
- Roy Markowitz - drums
- Eric Kaz - piano
- Ben Keith - dobro, pedal steel guitar
- Stuart Schulman - violin
Production
- Produced by Michael Cuscuna
- Engineered by Nick Jameson
- Milton Glaser - art direction, design
- Duane Michals - photography
- Bill Wasserzieher - reissue liner notes