John Prine - The Missing Years [2LP/ 180G]

"John Prine was a battle-scarred veteran of the '70s "new Dylan" club and a superb craftsman whose modest commercial success found him without a major label deal in the '80s. Prine's solution was to move to Nashville and roll his own, setting up the tiny Oh Boy imprint and making records he wanted to hear, a survival game that paid off handsomely with this 1991 set, produced by Heartbreaker bassist Howie Epstein and boasting cameos from Phil Everly, Divinyls' Christina Amphlett, Tom Petty, old pal Bonnie Raitt, and another "new Dylan" alum, Bruce Springsteen. But it's Prine himself who holds your attention here, with his reliably fine songs mixing droll, dead-on narratives of recognizable Everymen, sweetly goofy parables, and unvarnished love songs that his craggy drawl inhabits with touching authority." --Sam Sutherland

A1        Picture Show
A2        All The Best
A3        The Sins Of Memphisto
A4        Everybody Wants To Feel Like You

B1        It's A Big Old Goofy World
B2        I Want To Be With You Always
B3        Daddy's Little Pumpkin
B4        Take A Look At My Heart

C1        Great Rain
C2        Way Back Then
C3        Unlonely
C4        You Got Gold

D1        Everything Is Cool
D2        Jesus The Missing Years
D3        The Third Of July