Runs Good, Needs Paint

Mark Wenner | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 28, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B00004HYPS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,538,146 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Back To The City

2. Too Much

3. Lonesome Fugitive

4. Shade Tree Mechanic

5. Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor

6. The Wild One

7. So Lonesome I Could Cry

8. Love's Gonna Live Here

9. Too Young To Know

10. Rollin' and Tumblin'

11. Made Up My Mind

12. Chitlins Con Carne

13. I Want To Be Loved

14. Amazing Grace

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What else is there for Swithblade?, December 4, 2001

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Tomo (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Runs Good, Needs Paint (Audio CD)

When I was 14 years old, I lived in Washington DC. I remember trying to talk Mark Wenner into letting me play drums with one of his sideline bands, the Assassins. When I look back on this, I crack up; my mother would have killed me!!!! Anyway, he was a complete nice guy, as he tried to let me down gently that it wasn't going to work out.

I think the rawness of this CD adds to its charm. Also, I know of no other CD recordings of Switchblade. A lot of Nighthawks CDs I've listened to in the past sound way too cleaned up, and nothing like them live. This is raw and cool. Go Mark!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not too impressed..., February 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Runs Good, Needs Paint (Audio CD)

Some of the songs are good, some are the same old Nighthawk routine, and some are just plain awful. Sounds like someone stood in the middle of the dancefloor at any given bar with a cheap microphone...no mixing, it seems, and just doesn't have a "pocket"...disappointing. Have known and followed Mark and the Nighthawk boys for some time and this was just plain disappointing...

4.0 out of 5 stars Runs Good; Needs Paint, Runs Great and Needs Little, June 14, 2000

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Larry Boy Pratt (Herald Harbor, MD., USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Runs Good, Needs Paint (Audio CD)

Just got my copy of the subject CD. I've been listening to Mark Wenner for almost 30 years now and he has never ceased to amaze me. This CD is a collection of recordings from a number of different groups he's played in. The first eight cuts, with Switchblade, are some of the finest straight ahead, race-to-the-finish, Rockabilly bar band tunes you'll ever want to hear, including Elvis' "Too Much" and "Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor." There is an instrumental version of Hank Williams' "So Lonesome I Could Cry," that'll make you cry. Most of these cuts are recorded live at Tornado Alley in Wheaton, MD. The sound quality is a little rough, but with headphones, closed eyes and a little astral projection, you are there. It has a "real" feel to it. Then we switch gears with Bob Margolin and a couple of deep blues, Muddy Waters tunes, "Too Young To Know" and"Rollin' and Tumblin'" Mark is a master of Muddy tunes, having played with Muddy many times himself. Next a few tunes with the The Bel Airs, a Mid-west band of note. They do a great version of "Chitlin' Con Carne". Finally,another gear shift, to Amazing Grace with Terry Garland. This is a bluesy traditional version accompanied only by Terry's National steel guitar. The CD is available from Right on Rhythm records, an indie label preserving the best of Washington DC music. . . Runs Good; Needs Paint is a great addition to any harp players library of music.