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JOHN PRINE
with Roger Waters, Justin Vernon, Jim James, Margo Price and Nathaniel Rateliff
Live at Newport 2017 [no label, 1CD]
Newport Folk Festival. Live at Newport, RI; July 30, 2017. Very good soundboard.
JOHN PRINE R.I.P. 1946 - 2020
John Prine, who for five decades wrote rich, plain-spoken songs that chronicled the struggles and stories of everyday working people and changed the face of modern American roots music, died Tuesday April 7 at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was 73. The cause was complications related to Covid-19, his family confirmed to Rolling Stone.
Prine, who left behind an extraordinary body of folk-country classics, was hospitalized last month after the sudden onset of Covid-19 symptoms, and was placed in intensive care for 13 days. Prine’s wife and manager, Fiona, announced on March 17th that she had tested positive for the virus after they had returned from a European tour.
As a songwriter, Prine was admired by Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, and others, known for his ability to mine seemingly ordinary experiences - he wrote many of his classics as a mailman in Maywood, Illinois - for revelatory songs that covered the full spectrum of the human experience. There’s “Hello in There,” about the devastating loneliness of an elderly couple; “Sam Stone,” a portrait of a drug-addicted Vietnam soldier suffering from PTSD; and “Paradise,” an ode to his parents’ strip-mined hometown of Paradise, Kentucky, which became an environmental anthem. Prine tackled these subjects with empathy and humor, with an eye for “the in-between spaces,” the moments people don’t talk about, he told Rolling Stone in 2017. “Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism,” Dylan said in 2009. “Midwestern mind-trips to the nth degree.” - Rolling Stone
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Thanks to jddpro for sharing the show at Dime.
Notes:
One of the best-sounding John Prine recodings I have, this show might be one of the most star-studded John Prine shows ever. Margo Price, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, My Morning Jacket’s Yim Yames and The Night Sweats’s Nathaniel Rateliff each guested on one song, and (ex) Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters even brought his back vocalists from indie band Lucius for the song “Hello in There”. You can find tons of reviews of this concert online, as well as fan-shot videos on YouTube. John Prine inspired and influenced a lot of today’s best songwriters and this show proves that. As someone puts, “John Prine might not be your favorite songwriter, but he probably is one of your favorite songwriters’ favorite songwriter.”
All guest artists featured on this show paid tribute to John when he passed away - Margo Price and Nathaniel Rateliff performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk John Prine Tribute Concert, Jim James posted a John Prine cover on Instagram, Roger Waters recorded a video sharing his thoughts, and Justin Vernon wrote on his Twitter: “A simple majority of who I am as a person, let alone a musician, is because of John Prine. He is my number 1.”
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Track 01. Love, Love, Love 4:36
Track 02. Long Monday 3:44
Track 03. Taking A Walk 6:13
Track 04. Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore 3:58
Track 05. Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) [with Justin Vernon] 4:11
Track 06. Angel From Montgomery 5:56
Track 07. Fish and Whistle 3:42
Track 08. All the Best [with Jim James] 3:35
Track 09. Mexican Home 4:46
Track 10. In Spite of Ourselves [with Margo Price] 3:12
Track 11. That’s the Way That the World Goes ‘Round 3:22
Track 12. Sam Stone [with Nathaniel Rateliff] 5:46
Track 13. Hello in There [with Roger Waters and Lucius] 5:41
Track 14. Lake Marie 9:13
Track 15. Paradise 4:10
72 mins
Lineup:
John Prine - guitar, vocals
Jason Wilber - guitar, harmonica, harmony vocals
Pat McLaughlin - guitar, mandolin, harmony vocals
Dave Jacques - bass
Kenneth Blevins - drums
Justin Vernon, Jim James, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, Roger Waters - guitar, guest vocals
Jess Wolfe, Holly Laessig - harmony vocals on “Hello in There”
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