John Prine

   
Artist: John Prine

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Folk-Rock
   Country
   Folk
   Rock
   Other
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Fair and Square

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 14


   
 In Spite Of Ourselves

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 16


   
 Live on Tour

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 15


   
 Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Missing Years

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 14


   
 Common Sense

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


   
 Sweet Revenge

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


   
 John Prine

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 13


   
 German Afternoons

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


   
 Diamonds in the Rough

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


   
 Storm Windows

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10


   
 Pink Cadillac

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10


   
 Bruised Orange

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10


   
 Live

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 19


   
 Prime Prine: The Best Of John Prine

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 12


   
 The John Prine Anthology: Great Days CD2

   Year:    
Tracks: 20


   
 The John Prine Anthology: Great Days CD1

   Year:    
Tracks: 21

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An acclaimed singer/songwriter whose literate act flirted with everything from acoustic family line to rockabilly to straight-ahead country, John Prine was born October 10, 1946, in Maywood, IL. Raised by parents securely frozen in their rural Kentucky background, at long time 14 Prine began encyclopaedism to play the guitar from his older brother piece pickings inspiration from his gramps, wHO had played with Merle Travis. After a two-year term of office in the U.S. Army, Prine became a fixture on the Chicago common people music fit in the late '60s, befriending some other young performer named Steve Goodman.


Prine's compositions caught the ear of Kris Kristofferson, wHO was instrumental in helping him advance a transcription condense. In 1971, he went to Memphis to record his eponymously highborn debut album; though not a commercial success, songs like "Surface-to-air missile Stone," the harsh narrative of a drug-addled Vietnam stager, south Korean won critical favorable reception. Neither 1972's Diamonds in the Rough nor 1973's Unfermented Revenge fared whatsoever better on the charts, only Prine's act south Korean won great celebrity among his fellow performers; the Everly Brothers covered his song "Eden," spell both Bette Midler and Joan Baez offered renditions of "Howdy in There."


For 1975's Mutual Sense, Prine turned to manufacturer Steve Cropper, the highly influential house guitarist for the Stax label; while the album's good dismayed the ethnic music community with its reliance on strapping vocals and booming drums, it served notice that Prine was non an artist whose go could be pigeonholed, and was his alone LP to reach out the U.S. Top century. Steve Goodman took over the reins for 1978's folky Bruised Orange, only on 1979's Pink Cadillac, Prine took some other left turn and recorded an electric rockabilly physical exercise produced at Sun Studios by the label's legendary give, Sam Phillips, and his boy Knox.


Undermentioned 1980's Storm Windows, Prine was dropped by Asylum Records, and he responded by forming his possess label, Oh Boy Records, with the aid of longtime director Al Bunetta. The label's outset acquittance was 1984's Directionless Love, and under his have depression Prine's music thrived, as 1986's country-flavored German Afternoons earned a Grammy nomination in the Contemporary Folk family. After 1988's Whoremonger Prine Live, he released 1991's Grammy-winning The Missing Years; co-produced by Howie Epstein of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, the record album featured guest appearances from Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, and Tom Petty and proven to be Prine's biggest commercial-grade success to date, merchandising intimately 250,000 copies. After making his film debut in 1992's John Mellencamp-directed Falling from Grace, Prine returned in 1995 with Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, likewise produced by Epstein, which earned him another Grammy nomination.


In 1998, while Prine was operative on an album of male/female country duets, he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, with the cancer forming on the right side of his neck. Prine underwent surgery and radiation treatment for the cancer, and in 1999 was well enough to complete the album, which was released as In Spite of Ourselves and featured contributions from Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Connie Smith, and more than. In 2000, Prine re-recorded 15 of his best-known songs (partly to give his part a exercising following his treatment, only primarily so Oh Boy would possess recordings of his earlier hits) for an album called Souvenirs, to begin with issued in Germany only after released in the United States. In 2005, he released Fair & Square, a aggregation of newfangled songs, followed by a concert duty tour. Two years after, aboard singer and guitar player Mac Wiseman, Prine issued Standard Songs for Average People, a aggregation of the two musicians' interpretations of 14 kinfolk and state classics.