John Prine - John Prine (180g Vinyl LP)

John Prine - John Prine (180g Vinyl LP)Among the English language's premier phrase turners with music relevant to any age, the late great John Prinewas part of the Atlantic Records family for four albums John Prine (1971), Diamonds in the Rough (1972), Sweet Revenge (1973) and Common Sense (1975) before he jumped over to Asylum for another three records and eventually his own label Oh Boy. Fittingly for a former mailman, Prine delivered songs that are both literate and personal. The

capturing the freeform

Funkadelic refracted into different dimensions

Born on Staten Island to an Italian/Puerto Rican family with strict religious beliefs

like someone turning the dial on an imaginary radio station

A very personal album for Florian

E defies expectations - while having no bassist

Garson also moved towards the darker side

while gesturing toward the inscrutability of what waits beyond this life

thus giving some indication of the personality behind the music

who had spent the previous four decades immortalising

While much of the album was recorded in real time with minor editing

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