title: It Ain't Easy (Chris Smither album)
text: # It Ain't Easy (Chris Smither album)
  
  It Ain't Easy is an album by American singer/songwriter Chris Smither, released in 1984. The original contained 12 songs.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic | |
  | Robert Christgau | (B+) |
  
  Writing for Allmusic, critic Brett Hartenbach wrote of the album "Smither never treats the songs as if they were museum pieces... There's not a false moment on the entire record. Highly recommended." Music critic Robert Christgau wrote of the album "...it's damn hard to make a consistently interesting album out of your voice and an acoustic guitar. Smither comes within a dud original and a few extraneous covers of bring it off..."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks composed by Chris Smither; except where indicated
  
  * "Footloose"
  * "It Ain't Easy" (Ron Davies)
  * "John Hurt Medley" (Mississippi John Hurt)
  * "No Money Down" (Chuck Berry)
  * "Green Rocky Road" (Len Chandler, Robert Kaufman)
  * "Guilty" (Randy Newman)
  * "Maybellene" (Chuck Berry)
  * "Rosalie"
  * "One Plus One"
  * "Ninety Nine Year Blues" (Julius Daniels)
  * "The Glory of Love" (Billy Hill)
  * "Sitting on Top of the World" (Lonnie Chatmon, Walter Vinson)
  * "Once in a Very Blue Moon" (Patrick Alger, Eugene Levine)
  * "So Long, Harry Truman" (Danny O'Keefe)
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Chris Smither – vocals, guitar
  