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Shine on Me by Dan Auerbach, live on Austin City Limits

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Faraway Look by Yola, live at The Current Day Party

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Song Review: John Prine - “I Remember Everything”

John Prine’s final recording - very sad indeed.

Prine co-wrote “I Remember Everything” with Pat McLaughlin and recorded it in his living room with Dave Cobb. It debuted on “Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine.”

A sparse ballad on acoustic guitar, it’s befitting of a farewell as Prine sings: regrets are very few/sometimes a little tenderness was the best that I could do.

Prine died in April after contracting COVID-19. But he’d suffered a host of health problems leading up to that and seemed to know the end was near, ending his final album with “When I Get to Heaven” and coming up with this bit of sweetness for his fans to wrap up a life well-played:

And I remember every town/and every hotel room/and every song I ever sang/on a guitar out of tune

And Prine saved the best - and final - words for Fiona:

I miss you in the morning light like roses miss the dew

Very sad indeed.

Grade card: John Prine - “I Remember Everything” - A

6/12/20

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King Of A One Horse Town by Dan Auerbach from the album Waiting On a Song - Directed by Aaron Hymes

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Album Review: Bonnie “Prince” Billy - The Purple Bird

Bonnie “Prince” Billy done went and made hisself a country album.

’Course he didn’t flaunt the idea like other musicians might. And though a country record might seem uncharacteristic for a musician like Billy, Billy also has no defining characteristic, so the Purple Bird maybe isn’t so surprising at all. And country Billy is still Billy, as on the closing “Our Home,” a duet and co-write with Tim O’Brien.

Leggo my ego and embrace my id, Billy sings.

John Anderson lends his twangy vocals to the maudlin environmental anthem “Downstream,” while Stuart Duncan’s fiddle, Pat McLaughlin’s mandolin and Mark Howard’s banjo provide a rural soundtrack to such numbers as the run-around-and-find-out humor of “Tonight with the Dogs I’m Sleeping,” the lovers’ lament that is “Boise, Idaho” and on “New Water,” on which the narrator pines for childhood lost.

And what would a Bonnie “Prince” Billy country album be without an oompah song dreaming of a world without consequence?

If you could do it without anyone saying that you’d committed a crime/make a short list of folks you could destroy for this and all time/who would you shoot in the face?/who would you shoot in the brain?/who would you shoot in the back/and leave bleeding out in the rain?, Billy sings on “Guns are for Cowards.”

Yeehaw!

Grade card: Bonnie “Prince” Billy - The Purple Bird - A-

2/25/25

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#PatMcLaughlin Driving Down The Highway Of The Saints

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Pat McLaughlin

Live … at the 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival …

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Phoebe Bridgers performing a plaintive cover of John Prine’s “Summer’s End” _____________________________ Summer’s End Songwriters: John Prine and Pat McLaughlin

Summer's end's around the bend just flying The swimming suits are on the line just drying I'll meet you there per our conversation I hope I didn't ruin your whole vacation Well you never know how far from home you're feeling Until you watch the shadows cross the ceiling Well I don't know but I can see it snowing In your car the windows are wide open Come on home Come on home No you don't have to be alone Just come on home Valentines break hearts and minds at random That ol' Easter egg ain't got a leg to stand on Well I can see that you can't win for trying And New Year's Eve is bound to leave you crying Come on home Come on home No you don't have to be alone Just come on home The moon and stars hang out in bars just talking I still love that picture of us walking Just like that ol' house we thought was haunted Summer's end came faster than we wanted Come on home Come on home No you don't have to be alone Come on home Come on home No you don't have to be alone Just come on home