1978
SMOKEY  (Independent release)
Side One
Smokehouse Man (Bidet)
Pants Full Of Blues (Bidet)

Side Two
George's Island (Bidet)
Clouds (Bidet)
The Tides They Are A-changing (Bidet)

Producer Unknown. It is also not certain who the studio musicians were on this release. It was a limited pressing.

ON-LINER NOTES

I don't remember recording this album very well. It was recorded in a studio apartment above one of the dockside bars I played at over the course of a weekend. Smokehouse Man was easily the most important track on the E.P. . I had written this for my friend's father who was elected the president of the local Canadian Smoker's Union chapter. He asked me to play at his victory party and I wrote the song for that event. The song made the rounds from chapter to chapter and eventually I received an award from the union's National headquarters. Pants Full Of Blues received some local Halifax airplay. Mostly AM radio late at night. The debacle over The Tides They Are A-Changin' has become the stuff of legend. Truth be known, the song was actually called The Tides Are Turning and I got into a discussion with the typesetter who was a huge Dylan fan about Bob's influence on the song. After I left the setter got really drunk and sent this mistake to press. The name has since stuck.

- Smokey Bidet (Barbados 2001)