New John Prine CD

Will Houston · Post by **Will Houston** » 5 Feb 2000 10:20 am

saw him on sessions on 54th last week did stuff from new cd,no steel on the show just one with dobie and one with this cool lookin lap.the cd is all steel and dobe 2 by buddy the rest is either al perkins ordan dugmore,nice stuff. the songs are all old country songs done duets with connie smith, melba mongomery emmylou patty lovelace,and this chick iris de mint shes pretty cool she was on the show with him. the more i hear it the better i like it. Will

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 5 Feb 2000 11:23 am

I'll have to check it out. A friend loaned me a Prine album over 20 years ago. It was very entertaining, but no steel that I recall. I'd probably like hearing John do some hard core country stuff. BTW: I returned the favor and turned that same buddy into a real HagFan.

Iris Demint wrote a great song which Merle recored on the much overlooked "Haggard '96". It's call "No Time to Cry". I've never heard her do it. Merle claims to like Iris' version of Big City better than his own. Christ could record that one and I'd like Merle's best. If I had a favorite Hag tune...

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Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 5 Feb 2000 1:32 pm

I have been a fan of Iris DeMint since 1997 when a Florada NPR station got flack about playing her song Wasteland of the Free.
this is my first album of prine but his earlier material has been added to my long wish list.

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Fred Martin · Post by **Fred Martin** » 5 Feb 2000 3:25 pm

I love this CD, bought it in Missoula a few months back. Lots of steel and Iris Dement grabs you real hard. This things seems honest. Lots of old country and its a keeper.

Martin Abend · Post by **Martin Abend** » 6 Feb 2000 5:07 am

Yeah,

I have it too (in fact the only thing I ever won in a sweepstake)and it's on heavy rotation on my CD-player.

Martin

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Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 13 Feb 2000 4:00 pm

Will...caught this same show last night on local PBS. Prine talks to you, and I hate to compare, but the way ole' Bob Dylan used to.
Liked that new song of his "In Spite of Ourselves".....and did I hear the word 'laid'
amongst the lyrics. He is outstanding.
I did notice, however, when he was sitting and getting interviewed, that the right side of his neck look diminished a bit....meaning
a serious trauma; operation.
A friend's wife back here has had just about half of her neck removed due to cancer; so I
don't want to start a forest firw here, but that look was there. FWIW

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 13 Feb 2000 4:05 pm

Chip--Prine indeed has battled cancer. I don't know the nature of it but that is public knowledge--he is in recovery.
And yes, you did hear laid--He ain't got laid in a month of Sundays, I caught him once and he was smellin' my undies, Iris sings. I love it.

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Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 14 Feb 2000 6:59 am

Thanks Jon...yeah, somehow with a female singing those lyrics, there is more of an impact [no offense JP].
I sure wish him well in his battle. This poor gal that I speak of also has MD. She really needs an operation on her carotid
artery on the siide of her neck where the cancer was extracted to try to increase the blood flow to her brain...but the doc's are
fearful of operating because so much of her neck has already been lost.
John Prine is a class one tunesmith for sure.
God Bless him.

Mike Dennis · Post by **Mike Dennis** » 16 Feb 2000 5:45 pm

Sounds like a pretty good album, I'm going to have to check into it...