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John Prine
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.8292
John Prine Album Rankings
1
A revelation upon its release, this album is now a collection of standards: "Illegal Smile," "Hello in There," "Sam Stone," "Donald and Lydia," and, of course, "Angel from Montgomery.
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2
Rhino'sGreat Days: The John Prine Anthologyis an excellent summary of John Prine's prime period, from his sublime 1971 eponymous debut to 1991'sMissing Years.
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3
Prine's third album is louder and more jaded than his first efforts, a set of rowdy country-rockers that tear along at a reckless speed.
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4
Despite some brilliant songs, Prine's followup albums to his stunning debut were uneven until this, his fifth, produced by his friendSteve Goodman.
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5
The Missing Years,' John Prine's first studio album in five years and his best sinceBruised Orange, from 1978, is filled with idiosyncratic delights.
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6
John Prine often sings like he's doing nothing more urgent than chewing on a blade of grass while lazing away a mid-August afternoon.
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7
John Prine went toSam Phillips' studio in Memphis to make his sixth album,Pink Cadillac, and got some of the Sun Records sound of 1950s rockabilly on a record produced byPhillips' sonsKnoxandJerry.
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8
Never an artist known to push himself harder than necessary, 2005's Fair and Square was John Prine's first album in five years, and his first set dominated by new material since 1995's Lost Dogs and
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10
John Prine's second album was a cut below his first, only because the debut was a classic and the followup was merely terrific.
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11
Common Senseis a confused, self-indulgent fourth album by a major songwriter gone downhill.
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12
Atlantic Records' compilation of John Prine's first four albums was good for its time (and became his only gold record) but has been superseded by Rhino's Great Days anthology.
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14
In the course of making an album of deceptively slap-happy folk-rock songs. John Prine has managed to slip in some of the most delicate, compressed wordplay of his career. Indeed.
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15
Unlike virtually every other act in his age group, veteran singer/songwriter John Prine is doing the best work of his career right now.
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16
Prine's second live album -- which also boasts three new studio tracks -- finds the singer/songwriter in fine form.
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17
In the liner notes to John Prine's 2000 album Souvenirs, he calls the songs he has recorded during his 30-year career "faithful companions.
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18
After eight albums on two major labels, John Prine has gone the route of many a fine though commercially marginal singer/songwriter and released an album on his own independent label. It's a treat.
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19
Though nominated for a Grammy in that year's contemporary folk category, this just missed winning--unlike 1991's winning The Missing Years .
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