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| 1. Illegal Smile | |||
| 2. Spanish Pipedream | |||
| 3. Hello In There | |||
| 4. Sam Stone | |||
| 5. Paradise | |||
| 6. Donald And Lydia | |||
| 7. Late John Garfield Blues | |||
| 8. Yes I Guess They Should Name A Drink After Me | |||
| 9. Great Compromise | |||
| 10. Sweet Revenge | |||
| 11. Please Don't Bury Me | |||
| 12. Christmas In Prison | |||
| 13. Dear Abby | |||
| 14. Blue Umbrella | |||
| 15. Common Sense | |||
| 16. Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard | |||
| 17. Saddle In The Rain | |||
| 18. He Was In Heaven Before He Died | |||
| 19. Fish And Whistle | |||
| 20. That's The Way The World Goes Round | |||
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Amazon.co.uk Review
If you buy Great Days: The John Prine Anthology, you may live to regret it. He's probably the best American folk-song lyricist of his generation, mixing low-key poignancy and deadpan humour in perfect proportions. His musical limitations serve to reinforce the understated nature of his art, and his short, plain-spoken lines (written in the offhand conversational style of his Midwestern and Appalachian characters) sneak through the back door of your imagination and won't leave. So where does the regret come in? Well, as you listen to the 41 songs arranged chronologically on these two CDs, you're going to ask yourself, "If someone can write 41 songs as good as these, isn't there a good chance he wrote more than 41?" After hearing the anthology's six songs from Prine's 1971 debut album, for example, you may decide to go out and buy that album itself. After you hear songs as delightful as "Pretty Good" and "Your Flag Decal", which didn't find their way into the collection, you may soon find yourself hunting down all 10 of Prine's original studio albums. Then you may regret having bought Great Days. --Geoffrey Himes
CD Description
Spread across two enticing discs, the GREAT DAYS anthology makes it plain that living during a time when John Prine is releasing music makes for some great days indeed. The fact that Prine had to wait 20 years to receive a Grammy should not for a second obscure the fact that he has been making rewarding albums since his debut in 1971. He is but one of the many songwriters to labour under the "Next Bob Dylan" tag. InPrine's case, however, the remarkable consistency inherent in his writing supports such a claim, hyperbole notwithstanding.
With deadpan delivery and economic wordplay as calling cards, Prine's songs reflect a startling lack of bitterness for a man whose career has seen many commercial ups and downs. Prine's body of work reflects a country heart filled with a rocker's sense of mischief. Whether it's the loneliness of ageing ("Hello In There") or anti-cynicism itself ("That's the Way The World Goes 'Round"), GREAT DAYS reveals one of the nation's secret heroes in all his "aw shucks" glory.
If you buy Great Days: The John Prine Anthology, you may live to regret it. He's probably the best American folk-song lyricist of his generation, mixing low-key poignancy and deadpan humour in perfect proportions. His musical limitations serve to reinforce the understated nature of his art, and his short, plain-spoken lines (written in the offhand conversational style of his Midwestern and Appalachian characters) sneak through the back door of your imagination and won't leave. So where does the regret come in? Well, as you listen to the 41 songs arranged chronologically on these two CDs, you're going to ask yourself, "If someone can write 41 songs as good as these, isn't there a good chance he wrote more than 41?" After hearing the anthology's six songs from Prine's 1971 debut album, for example, you may decide to go out and buy that album itself. After you hear songs as delightful as "Pretty Good" and "Your Flag Decal", which didn't find their way into the collection, you may soon find yourself hunting down all 10 of Prine's original studio albums. Then you may regret having bought Great Days. --Geoffrey Himes
CD Description
Spread across two enticing discs, the GREAT DAYS anthology makes it plain that living during a time when John Prine is releasing music makes for some great days indeed. The fact that Prine had to wait 20 years to receive a Grammy should not for a second obscure the fact that he has been making rewarding albums since his debut in 1971. He is but one of the many songwriters to labour under the "Next Bob Dylan" tag. InPrine's case, however, the remarkable consistency inherent in his writing supports such a claim, hyperbole notwithstanding.
With deadpan delivery and economic wordplay as calling cards, Prine's songs reflect a startling lack of bitterness for a man whose career has seen many commercial ups and downs. Prine's body of work reflects a country heart filled with a rocker's sense of mischief. Whether it's the loneliness of ageing ("Hello In There") or anti-cynicism itself ("That's the Way The World Goes 'Round"), GREAT DAYS reveals one of the nation's secret heroes in all his "aw shucks" glory.
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