In Spite Of Ourselves
You've got to hand it to John Prine. On the first song on this collection of duets, he plunges valiantly into "(We're Not) The Jet Set," singing the part made famous by George Jones, the Caruso of country music. And Prine, never blessed with the most pliant pipes, promptly pancakes a note flatter than Kansas. Aw, heck! The songwriter's songwriter takes a curious turn with his first studio album since 1995's Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings. Here he's penned only the hysterically coarse title track, opting instead to coo a slew of classic lovin'-and-losin' country tunes with Iris DeMent, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Connie Smith, Trisha Yearwood, Melba Montgomery, Patty Loveless, Fiona Prine, and Dolores Keane. Given Prine's ragged-but-right voice, the effect is something akin to casting a grizzled character actor opposite Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story. And you know what? It'd probably still be a charming (albeit very different) movie, because romantic comedies, like country duets, are all about chemistry, which is something In Spite of Ourselves has in excess. --Steven Stolder more
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-01-2008
- The best
How could you go wrong? I mean an exmailman from Chicago. I bet he has seen it all! It comes across in his music.
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-17-2008
- Crosses generations
Fantastic collection of old songs performed with music legends. My mother enjoyed listening to this CD with me. She was delighted to hear some of the old songs she grew up with, performed by many of the singers she use to listen to on...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-02-2007
- Romantic country ballads for "meetin', cheatin', and retreatin'"
John Prine remains a prominent artist in the country music arena; and with this album of duets with talented female singers he moves ever closer to center stage. Sure, some people say that he occasionally sings a note or two flat, but...
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- 1/5
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- Posted: Jun-09-2007
- Skips or burps
The track inspite of ourselfs has problems. It's skipping not what I would expect from a new cd. Very disappointed
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-01-2008
- The best
How could you go wrong? I mean an exmailman from Chicago. I bet he has seen it all! It comes across in his music.
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-11-2002
- John doing covers, I'm waiting for the Real Thing
I have every John Prine album from Diamonds in the Rough to this one (and even the Falling From Grace soundtrack). I discovered him 25 or 30 years ago on some local low budget TV music show singing "Paradise" and something else I can't...
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- 1/5
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- Posted: Jun-09-2007
- Skips or burps
The track inspite of ourselfs has problems. It's skipping not what I would expect from a new cd. Very disappointed
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