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John Prine: John Prine (CD)
John Prine caught us by surprise in the late-night morning let-down after our last show in Chicago. Steve Goodman (who'd shared the bill with us that week) asked us to go to Old Town to listen to a friend he said we had to hear, and since Steve had knocked us out all week with his own songs, we obliged.
It was too damned late, and we had an early wake-up ahead of us, and by the time we got there Old Town was nothing but empty streets and dark windows. And the club was closing. But the owner let us come in, pulled some chairs off a couple of tables, and John unpacked his guitar and got back up to sing. There are few things as depressing to look at as a bunch of chairs upside down on the tables of an empty old tavern, and there was that awkward moment, us sitting there like, 'Okay, kid, show us what you got,' and him standing up there alone, looking down at his guitar like, 'What the hell are we doing here, buddy?'
Then he started singing, and by the end of the first line we knew we were hearing something else. It must've been like stumbling onto Dylan when he first busted onto the Village scene (in fact Al Aronowitz said the same thing a few weeks later after hearing John do a guest set at the Bitter End). One of those rare, great times when it all seems worth it, like when the Vision would rise upon Blake's 'weary eyes, Even in this Dungeon, & this Iron Mill.'
He sang about a dozen songs, and had to do a dozen more before it was over. Unlike anything I'd heard before. Sam Stone. Donald & Lydia. The one about the Old Folks. Twenty-four years old and writes like he's two-hundred and twenty. I don't know where he comes from, but I've got a good idea where he's going. We went away believers, reminded how goddamned good it feels to be turned on by a real Creative Imagination.
Kris Kristofferson
Article properties:John Prine: John Prine (CD)
Interpret: John Prine
Album titlle: John Prine (CD)
Genre Country
Label WEA USA
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0075678154126
- weight in Kg 0.107
| Prine, John - John Prine (CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Illegal Smile | John Prine | ||
| 02 | Spanish Pipedream | John Prine | ||
| 03 | Hello In There | John Prine | ||
| 04 | Sam Stone | John Prine | ||
| 05 | Paradise | John Prine | ||
| 06 | Pretty Good | John Prine | ||
| 07 | Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Any | John Prine | ||
| 08 | Far From Me | John Prine | ||
| 09 | Angel From Montgomery | John Prine | ||
| 10 | Quit Man | John Prine | ||
| 11 | Donald And Lydia | John Prine | ||
| 12 | Six O'Clock News | John Prine | ||
| 13 | Flashback Blues | John Prine | ||
JOHN PRINE
Angel From Montgomery
recorded probably July 8, 1971 at American Recording Studio, Danny Thomas Blvd., Memphis, Tennessee; produced by Arif Mardin
with John Prine: vocal, guitar; Reggie Young: lead guitar; Leo LeBlanc: pedal steel guitar; John Christopher: guitar; Bobby Emmons: organ; Bobby Wood: piano; Mike Leach: bass; Gene Chrisman: drums; Bishop Heywood: percussion
Atlantic SD 8296 (LP)
In Chicago, John Prine befriended folkie Steve Goodman, who played one of Prine's songs at a show attended by Kris Kristofferson. Blown away by the song, Kristofferson and his unlikely pal, Paul Anka, went to see Prine at the Earl in Chicago. "The club had closed, but the door was open,” Prine said."The chairs were turned up on the tables, and I was waiting around to get paid.”When Kristofferson and Anka arrived, Prine pulled his guitar out of the case and ran down a few songs. Kristofferson invited Prine and Goodman to perform with him in New York. Atlantic's Jerry Wexler was in the audience. "The next day, I signed a record contract,” Prine said. "It was just that quick.”Anka became his first manager.
Angel from Montgomery was one of thirteen varied, consequential, and above all evocative songs on Prine's first album. It has been covered by Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi, and many others, most of them women. Talking to Paul Zollo, Prine said that the song was almost a cowrite with another Chicago folkie, Eddie Holstein. One afternoon, they tried to write a song together, and Eddie suggested a song about an older person. Prine said he'd already done that with Hello In There.Then he said, "How about a song about a middle-aged woman who feels older than she is.”Holstein laughed it off, but Prine stuck with it. "I went home. I had this real vivid image of a woman standing over dish water with soap on her hands, walking away from it all. I let it pour out of that character's heart.She just wanted an angel to come to take her away from all this." Why Montgomery? Because everyone knows Hank Williams was from there. Elaborating later, Prine said, he likes to write from the point of view of characters other than himself. Male fiction writers create female characters, so songwriters should have the same freedom. "There's no gender when it comes to being a writer,” he said.
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