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Artist | John Prine
Title | For Better, Or Worse
Genre | Country Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 42:28
Label | Oh Boy Records Store | 2016
Catalog | OBR-044 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 222 kbps Size | 71.18 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out (with Iris DeMent) 2:41
02. Storms Never Last (with Lee Ann Womack) 2:43
03. Falling In Love Again (with Alison Krauss) 2:31
04. Color Of The Blues (with Susan Tedeschi) 2:54
05. I'm Tellin' You (with Holly Williams) 1:50
06. Remember Me (When Candlelights Are Gleaming) (with Kathy 3:32
Mattea)
07. Look At Us (with Morgane Stapleton) 2:46
08. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, And Loud, Loud Music (with Amanda 2:58
Shires)
09. Fifteen Years Ago (with Lee Ann Womack) 3:06
10. Cold, Cold Heart (with Miranda Lambert) 3:32
11. Dreaming My Dreams With You (with Kathy Mattea) 3:12
12. Mental Cruelty (with Kacey Musgraves) 2:23
13. Mr. & Mrs. Used To Be (with Iris DeMent) 2:36
14. My Happiness (with Fiona Prine) 2:55
15. Just Waitin' 2:49
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An acclaimed singer/songwriter whose literate work flirted with everything
from acoustic folk to rockabilly to straight-ahead country, John Prine was
born October 10, 1946, in Maywood, Illinois. Raised by parents firmly
rooted in their rural Kentucky background, at age 14 Prine began learning
to play the guitar from his older brother while taking inspiration from his
grandfather, who had played with Merle Travis. After a two-year tenure in
the U.S. Army, Prine became a fixture on the Chicago folk music scene in
the late 60s, befriending another young performer named Steve Goodman.
In 1999, Prine released a thoroughly charming and engaging album called In
"Spite Of Ourselves", in which he covered a handful of classic country
tunes (tossing in one new original for good measure) as duets with nine
talented female vocalists. Prine has given the same approach another try 17
years later, and though "For Better, Or Worse" isn't quite as good as his
first go-round with this concept, it's still a fine collection of songs
from a man who knows a bit about crafting a tune. The greatest strength of
"For Better, Or Worse" is also one of its weaknesses - Prine himself. Prine
was nearly 70 when he recorded this album, and his voice has grown worse
for wear (his battle with throat cancer in the 90s and a more recent brush
with lung cancer haven't helped).
But if he sounds his age on these tracks, he also spins that to his
advantage; on numbers like "Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out", "Dim Lights,
Thick Smoke", and "I'm Telling You", he sounds like an wily old rascal
who's seen it all and has plenty to tell. Prine's female co-stars are all
in better shape than he is in terms of their instruments, and across the
board they sound happy and honored to be working with the great man. Alison
Krauss, Lee Ann Womack, Kacey Musgraves, Susan Tedeschi, Miranda Lambert,
and Kathy Mattea all bring their A game to these sessions, and help to give
Prine a boost when he needs it.
Of course, the best tracks are the ones where Prine teams up with Iris
DeMent; the two singers have long shown they're simpatico, and hearing them
together on "Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out" and "Mr. & Mrs. Used To Be"
is a delight. Add in a studio band that delivers the classic Nashville
honky tonk sound these songs demand, and a closing solo performance of
"Just Waitin", where Prine makes Luke the Drifter's lyrics sound like
something he could have written himself, and you get a fine latter-day
album from a seminal artist. It's still troubling that one of America's
best songwriters seems to have lost the desire to pen new material, but
"For Better, Or Worse" shows John Prine hasn't lost his spirit as a
performer.
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