John Prine's Lyrics
1987; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3051858
ISSN1945-2349
Autores Tópico(s)Poetry Analysis and Criticism
ResumoJohn Prine has been an important American songwriter since the early 1970s. With the release in 1979 and 1980 of his sixth and seventh albums, Pink Cadillac and Storm Windows, he rounded out the seventies in characteristic style. The new group of songs combined his established strength as a writer with a significant shift in musical emphasis to demonstrate that the voice first heard in 1971 on John Prine was still unique, compelling, and evolving in challenging ways. More recently, Prine has struck out on his own, and his two latest albums, Aimless Love (1984) and German Afternoons (1986), have been produced by his own company, Oh Boy Records. Although born and raised in the western Chicago suburb of Maywood, Prine has country roots, which he announces on his first album:
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