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1. Imaginary Lines 4:13 – 2. Antiques 4:09 – 3. The Hard Stuff 3:49 – 4. Lookin’ for a Fight 3:21 – 5. The Big Game 3:44 – 6. Diagnostic Heart 4:08 – 7. 2 Fake I.D.’s 4:23 – 8. Hurricane 3:53 – 9. Wildflowers in the Weeds 3:38 – 10. 8 X 10 4:05 – Susan Gibson knows all about blessings. Roundabout 28 years ago, she wrote herself a wish that grew up and went off on its own to become one of the biggest country songs of all time. Smiling at its success from afar, Gibson went on to happily live her own best life, free to hit the open road with a van full of happy dogs and a heart full of songs to share with attentive audiences across the country ? and all the room in the world to “make the big mistakes” that a wide-eyed dreamer kinda gal could ever ask for. – All that said, though, Gibson is not a lives-in-la-la-land kinda dreamer. Blessed as she’s been, the award-winning songwriter also knows all too well that in the real world, sometimes there’s just no avoiding “the hard stuff.” But positive life choices and willpower alone offer no proof or protection against the kind of knock-you-on-your-butt shots that life itself can serve up on the regular. The best you can do, she’s learned, is take each hit as it comes, get back up again, and try to find your wits and center of gravity before the next wallop lands. Because as sure as hearts break, van transmissions fail, and loved ones (both – That’s the kind of stuff that Gibson writes and sings about on The Hard Stuff: the stuff that hurts. So why then do so many of her songs on the album ? the follow-up to her 2015 EP Remember Who You Are and first full-length collection of new material since 2011’s TightRope ? have the effect of leaving the listener feeling not depressed and beaten down, but wiser, lighter, and ultimately uplifted? – (Source: record company website) – Total running time 39:23 – UPC: 845121033137 – The Amazon ASIN for the mp3 version of this CD is B07YM3Q5SC – Another listing by Zip
