For a decade plus following college, I participated in an extended childhood, existing on the periphery of the music industry, close enough to see behind the curtain, yet not so involved to reap financial rewards that would have sullied the experience. The time afforded me opportunities to do things and meet people that I would have thought unthinkable as a kid growing up in Sticksville, listening to music and devouring liner notes. Sometimes I will escape the office and the mind-numbing engagement in capitalistic endeavors to enjoy tobacco. I'll set the iPod [...]
This version came from Great Days-The John Prine Anthology Disc 2. It can also be found on German Afternoons.
This compilation is not accompanied by an instalment in the country history, because the next chapter goes with the next mix. And, in some ways, it makes sense that this mix has no history (of course, the timeframe is covered by past articles in the series) because the late 1970s was a time of hiatus. Many of the stalwarts of just a few years earlier ceased having strings of hits, and those artists who had grown out of the Outlaw movement now had their day. In this mix, the likes of Guy Clark, John Anderson, Larry Jon Wilson [...]
Ahh yes, the very first Friday of 2012 is here. I am still getting caught up on all the Top Songs of 2011 from all over the internet BUT this handful of songs have found a way to make it into my eardrums this morning. Hope you enjoy them. Free mp3: Conveyor - Mukraker Free mp3: MPSO - Can I Convince You Free mp3: Of Montreal [...]
Bon Iver's world-conquering second-album run has not ended yet. Thus far, Bon Iver, Bon Iver has yielded two singles, "Calgary" and "Holocene." And later this month, Justin Vernon will drop the third single from the LP: "Towers." As Some Kind Of Awesome reports , that track will be available on both 123 and digital download, and it'll include, as a B-side, Vernon's cover of the John Prine song " Bruised Orange (Chain Of Sorrow) ." Vernon previously covered that song, solo-acoustic style, on a 2010 Prine tribute album, and we don't yet know whether that's the version [...]
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Continuing the success of his highly praised eponymous second studio album, which was our number one album of the year, Bon Iver has announced that the third single from the album, following " Holocene " and " Calgary ," will be "Towers." The song will be released as a 12" and digitally on January 23rd via 4AD, and will feature a cover of John Prine's "Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)" as a b-side. The b-side was originally featured on a John Prine tribute album back in 2010, but was done solely by Justin Vernon. It is [...]
Tweet Bon Iver have announced "Towers" as the next single from his overwhelmingly well-rece ived second album "Bon Iver, Bon Iver" . Following on from "Holocene" and "Calgary" , Bon Iver will be releasing a 123 (and digital) single of "Towers" which is due out on January 23rd via 4AD, which will be backed with a cover of [...]
Seeing as the History of Country series is proving so popular, let us put on a Santa-red Stetson and have a country Christmas. This lot is old-skool: Ernest Tubb riffs (badly) on his 1941 honky tonk classic, Loretta Lynn socks it to it disagreeable Santa, while Brenda Lee aims to lassoo him, yee ha. George Jones goes X-Mas twisting, and Buck Jones provides some serious pathos. And if you had to choose one man to sing Little Drummer Boy, it would have to be Johnny Cash, right? Hey, even horrid old Jingle bloody Bells sounds good here! [...]
John Prine | Jason Isbell Touhill Performing Arts Center December 3, 2011 Why is John Prine so beloved? He's never had a major hit of his own, never really crossed over from the folkie netherw... Continue reading "John Prine and Jason Isbell at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, 12/4/11: Review and Setlists" >
Tonight: Replay Records present Cheap Beer featuring Mouthbreathers, Der Todesking, the Spook Lights, Jabber Josh, Dry Bonnet at Replay Lounge Scattered Trees, Quiet Corral, Envy Corps at the Riot Room Bear Club Winter Ball at the Bottleneck Kansas City Rock and Metal Fest: Bleeding the Heavens, 12 Gauge Choir, Seven, Collapse, Dented Fingers, Hate Incorporated at the Beaumont Boombox, Somasphere at Granada John Prine with Jason Isbell at the Midland David Seume, Thom Hoskins at FOKL [...]
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Thanks in large part to country-influenced acts like The Byrds, The Grateful Dead and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, rock fans were starting to dig the country scene — not Nashville's crooners or John Denver, of course, but the Outlaws, Gram Parsons and some of the old pioneers. Some of California rock's great names had their roots in playing bluegrass; people like Eagles co-founder and Flying Burrito Brother Bernie Leadon, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and the singer-songwriter J.D. Souther, who wrote for the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, the Texan "Queen of Rock" who made her start as a country [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Releases , Q + A Jim Shea John Prine certainly didn't ask to become a world-renowned folk artist. Returning home from the Vietnam War, Prine saw his childhood friends turn into shells of the men they once were. The only way he knew how to cope was through song. After getting a job as a mailman in Chicago's Maywood suburb, Prine trudged through all types [...]
Pardon me while I enjoy this warm afterglow I'm feeling - the afterglow that comes from seeing living legend John Prine perform live. It was a Saturday night, and the setting was perfect - the ornate 82-year old Orpheum Theater in downtown Phoenix. Loudon Wainwright III 's hour-long opening set was filled with his brand of humor and songs "about death and decay." Songs like "The Shit Song," "Heaven," and a request from promoter Danny Zelisko, "Dead Skunk," were nothing short of hilarious; but he also offered up some introspective tunes with a [...]
This is from John Prine ' s 1973 album Sweet Revenge.
Today is Veterans' Day in the United States - a day we set aside each year to honor and give thanks to the men and women who have defended our many freedoms. Veterans' Day is close to the holiday season that includes Thanksgiving and Christmas, and that helps us to remember that many of these brave people in uniform will not be home with family and friends over that celebratory time. Thank you for your sacrifice, and your patriotism. MP3: "Sam Stone" by John Prine [...]
Beat Surrender favourite Ronnie Fauss has another EP out soon Any Lovin' Way But Wrong features a quartet of songs from his favourite singer-songwriters and will be available to download on iTunes and Amazon - better still you can purchase the tracks direct from the man himself via PayPal for a $5 - here's the info , the EP was recorded with a handful of friends contributing pedal steel, banjo, piano, organ, harmonica and electric guitar to Ronnie's acoustic guitar and vocals, Clay Pigeons (Blaze Foley) Just The Other Side Of [...]
These two discs -- one live, one in the studio -- show Prine's early songs fully formed and genuinely brilliant, though we also hear him figuring out how best to deliver them. It's been 40 years since the release of John Prine's eponymous debut album, a classic singer-songwriter record if ever there was one. So now is as good a time as any to celebrate the man's songs, which have always been more complex than they first appear. They're both witty and emotive, heartbreaking yet life-affirming, slice of life yet thoughtful and penetrating. It seems oddly symbolic, for a [...]
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