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Great Days: The John Prine Anthology
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Audio CD, August 17, 1993 |
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Audio, Cassette, August 17, 1993
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | Illegal Smile |
2 | Spanish Pipedream |
3 | Hello In There |
4 | Sam Stone |
5 | Paradise |
6 | Donald And Lydia |
7 | The Late John Garfield Blues |
8 | Yes I Guess They Oughta Name A Drink After You |
9 | The Great Compromise |
10 | Sweet Revenge |
11 | Please Don't Bury Me |
12 | Christmas In Prison |
13 | Dear Abby (Live) |
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 That The World Goes 'Round |
21 | Bruised Orange (Chain Of Sorrow) |
Disc: 2
1 | Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone |
2 | Automobile |
3 | Killing The Blues |
4 | Down By The Side Of The Road |
5 | Living In The Future |
6 | It's Happening To You |
7 | Storm Windows |
8 | One Red Rose |
9 | Souvenirs - Steve Goodman |
10 | Aimless Love |
11 | The Oldest Baby In The World |
12 | People Puttin' People Down |
13 | Unwed Fathers |
14 | Angel From Montgomery (Live) |
15 | Linda Goes To Mars |
16 | Bad Boy |
17 | Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness (Live) |
18 | It's A Big Old Goofy World (Live) |
19 | The Sins Of Memphisto |
20 | All The Best |
Editorial Reviews
Product description
From Hello in There" and ""Sam Stone"" to ""Angel from Montgomery"
Amazon.com
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 humor 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
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.75 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 9.1 ounces
- Manufacturer : Rhino Records
- Date First Available : October 21, 2006
- Label : Rhino Records
- ASIN : B000003329
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #21,736 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #203 in Traditional Folk (CDs & Vinyl)
- #278 in Contemporary Folk (CDs & Vinyl)
- #711 in Pop Singer-Songwriters
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Hearing a bad coffeehouse singer torturing some of Prine's songs sent me to Amazon to buy the real thing. Totally bummed that this collection did not include the Flag song, I bought it anyway. And though there is that one glaring error (whattza matter, is the flag decal now getting people into heaven?) I am very glad I made the purchase. I even think CD 2 is just as strong as the old songs on the first CD.
And the booklet with the CD gets 5 stars as well. John reveals some great tidbits about every song. Just to wet your appetite, he says that "Illegal Smile" was not written about smoking dope. (Could have fooled me and all my college friends!) To find out the real motivation, you'll just have to buy the CD.
The songs themselves are everything you'd expect from John Prine. Prine is one of my all-time favorite artists. So no complaints whatsoever about the album/songs themselves. However...
Three of the songs on Disc One (it's a two disc set) are unplayable. They skip so badly that I have to fast-forward past them altogether. Disc Two seems to be okay.
I reported my dissatisfaction, but was never contacted by the seller (Saldi's LLC). So I guess I'll keep it, but I've learned my lesson. Don't buy used CDs...