Discography

Jay Smar Discography

ACOUSTIC BUFFET

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Other CDs available....

COUNTRY LIVING ROOM
$12

SOCKET TO ME
$12

THE BALLAD OF GLEN ONOKO
$10

BANJO TRAMPS
$12

New 2002 re-release (cd only)
HIGHSTRUNG
$10

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Acoustic Buffet

1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George Harrison arr. J Smar)
2. Nine Pound Hammer (Merle Travis arr. J Smar)
3. Gospel Medley
Amazing Grace (John Newton)
What a Friend We Have in Jesus (Scriven/Canverse)
I Saw the Light (Hank Williams)
Will the Circle Be Unbroken (A.P. Carter arr. J Smar)
4. Sail Away Ladies (trad. arr J Smar)
5. Fake Train (J. Smar)
6. E Flat or Be Flat (J. Smar)
7. More Pretty Girls Than One (trad. arr J Smar)
8. In Christ There is No East or West When You Are Stealing Doc's Guitar (1st tune arranged by John Fahey, 2nd written by Doc Watson (second part by J Smar) compilation arr. J Smar)
9. Happy Kathy J (J. Smar)
10. Shady Grove (trad. arr J Smar)
11. Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell, arr. Randy Scruggs)
12. Dancing, Fiddlin, and Singin'
Dance All Night (Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan)
Sally Ann (trad. arr J Smar)
We Bid You Goodnight (trad. arr J Smar)

Country Living Room

1. Opener, Ol' Joe Clark - original fiddle tune combined with Ol' Joe Clark fiddle tune
2. Wabash Canonball - guitar and vocal performed "Carter Style" with hints of Norman Blake
3. Bury Me Beneath The Willow - Carter tune with vocal and guitar
4. Amazing Grace - instrumental original arrangement
5. Lonesome Bottle Blues - vocal and claw-hammer banjo, original
6. Cripple Creek/Yankee March - traditional banjo tune with original banjo tune
7. Walkin Cane - original arrangement with vocal and finger-picked guitar
8. Song For Ashley Saul - original Guitar Style instrumental
9. Wildwood Flower - Carter Tune with vocal and finger-picked
guitar
10. Freight Train - vocal and guitar finger-picked. Written by
Elizabeth Cotton
11. Thirty-inch Coal - coal mining song of Mike Paxton original arrangement and adaptation for banjo along with vocal
12. Flat-Footin' - Fiddle tune medley, original arrangement

Socket To Me
(CDs sold out. Cassettes still available)

1. Stuck in "C" original open-tuned high energy guitar. (also on Ballad of Glen Onoko but this is a better version)
2. Li'l Sadie - Traditional with great dobro and some nice flat-pickin.
3. If It Wasn't For You - original countryish song, one of my favorite countryish tunes with Matt Glasser on fiddle.
4. Noontime-Broadway 396 - original slide guitar, folk.
5. Rainin' In My Heart - lost love song, with vocals and guitar.
6. Papa Was A Truck Drivin' Man - original bluegrass
7. Josephine - original sad folky song also recorded on Ballad of Glen Onoko but this has female vocalist also better version.
8. Around The Bend - original "young song" that I wrote. Some like this but I was very young when I wrote it.
9. Socket To Me - original slide guitar
10. Why Should I - original Kerrville Folk Songwriting finalist. Vocal, finger-picked mandolin.
11. Joe The Score - original finger-picked with tuba. I like it.

The Ballad of Glen Onoko

1. Ballad of Glen Onoko - original Folk tune about a waterfall in Eastern Pennsylvania.
2. Stuck In "C" - original open-tuned high energy guitar. Very requested from cross-over listeners.
3. Josephine - original sad folky song, sort of Norman Blakish.
4. Ol' Joe Smar - original bluegrass tune, not very strong but you may have a different opinion.
5. Fiddlin' Red - original kind of bluegrass number with fiddle, banjo, and some flat-pickin.
6. Sweet Diane - original countryish sound with pedal steel, drums, etc.
7. Karen's Waltz - original nice waltz, one of my favorites with fiddle, mandolin, accordion.
8. Pamela Brown - Tom T. Hall song that is a nice rendition of Leo Kottles rendition. Not bad.
9. Eastern P.A. - original countryish, big sound.

Banjo Tramps

All traditional tunes except "Bob's Minor Tune" and "Broom Corn Itch" written by Bob Haffly. "Thirty Inch Coal" was written by Mike Paxton and also appears on Country Living Room.

High Strung (2002 re-release)

1. Soldier's Joy Medley
2. Do Not Disturb / Whiskey Before Breakfast
3. Fisher's Hornpipe / Liberty
4. "The Monster" (medley)
Fire on the Mountain/Sally Goodin'/Little Rabbit)
5. Child of a Gypsy / Blue Rainbow
6. Bill Cheatum / Old Joe Clark
7. The Swimming Song / Cherokee Shuffle
8. Teetotalers or Temperance Reel