John Prine & Mac Wiseman - Standard Songs for Average People
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Artist: John Prine & Mac WisemanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Music Label: Oh Boy
Soundtracks:
- Blue Eyed Elaine
- Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age
- I Forgot to Remember to Forget
- I Love You Because
- Pistol Packin' Mama
- Saginaw, Michigan
- Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine
- Old Cape Cod
- Death of Floyd Collins
- Blue Side of Lonesome
- In the Garden
- Just the Other Side of Nowhere
- Old Rugged Cross
- Where the Blue of the Night
Free Music Notes for Standard Songs for Average People
Free Music Review: For Sentimental Reasons
Hit: 5 Stars
The most credible reviewers tend to be those who refer to specifics. Hold my check then, Amazon! This reviewer has his own airy theories as to the provenance of this album at this time. Intimations of mortality. From what I understand, John Prine is a recovering, or recovered, neck cancer patient. So, it would seem that not only mortality but livelihood have been on the line with Mr. Prine over the last few years.
Such stress tends to soften the heart of an already empathetic person. One starts thinking of one's life, his influences, and those ineffable experiences that bring a soul to the age of sixty-five. "Thanks," is in order, just as, "I love you, and I appreciate what you've done for me," come more readily to mind. Time for posing is over; time to get real and feel good about yourself and your blessings. Time to reference old friends.
That's how I have taken this album, as an act of grace. It works.
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Things don't get much schmaltzier than a Dobro played Hawaiian style, which is why it's fitting that Cowboy Jack Clement offers one up on "The Blue Side of Lonesome," Leon Payne's dated but charming classic--only one such excursion into blue-haired reminiscing on an album of over-the-top sentimentality. It was the legendary Clement who paired smart-ass folkie Prine and bluegrass totem Wiseman, but the singers themselves chose the repertoire, which reads like songs people of a certain age might pick on a dry drunk. The tunes range, believe it or not, from religious hymns to covers of Patti Page's 1957 hit "Old Cape Cod," Kris Kristofferson's underrated "Just the Other Side of Nowhere," and Tom T. Hall's "Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine," with a little Elvis and Ernest Tubb thrown in for good measure. It's fitting that Prine and Wiseman revisit the Hall standard, since oddly, both singers vocally favor the Nashville storyteller from time to time. But one has to question their use of the Grand Ole Opry's Carol Lee Singers, who show up on several cuts and seem, well, just bizarre on a John Prine record, even as they evoke the lushly famous Nashville Sound of the 1960s. Suffice it to say, this is a quirky project, and if Prine's scratchy baritone and Wiseman's melodic tenor sometimes overlap to where you can't tell who's singing what, it doesn't much matter. You're listening to two new pals having what seems to be the time of their life. --Alanna NashFolk Music CDs
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