In this week's Time Capsule, we're looking back at John Prine's country breakthrough, which features an eclectic 22-piece band of brilliance.
will be revisiting albums that came out before the magazine was founded in July 2002 and assessing its current cultural relevance. This week, we’re looking at John Prine’s country breakthrough, in which he and producer Arif Mardin assembled a tight 22-piece session band and built out the most ambitious and densest LP of the singer-songwriter’s then-young career.John Prine’s self-titled debut album remains a bulletproof masterpiece.
Cue Jerry Shook’s harmonica pulls, David Briggs’s organ and that signature folk musician-on-a-mountaintop guise of electricity from Prine on “Christmas in Prison,” which is a tender portrait of one worthwhile day in the slammer—where the song’s protagonist grows homesick for his lover while spending the holidays locked up.
Too, “Onomatopoeia” sounds like something cut from the excess of a Jerry Reed record, and it’s as fun as its title suggests. When Prine is having a blast on the mic, there’s a color to his music that is undeniable and a damn hoot. “We’re gonna rope off an area and put on a show from the Canadian border down to Mexico,” he sings. “It might be the most potentially gross thing that we could possibly do.” It’s an ode to nonsense or, as Prine says in the outro, “speaking in a foreign tongue.
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