John Prine, Souvenirs - 1h 1m 8s

Tracks & Durations

1. Souvenirs	3:42
2. Fish And Whistle	3:00
3. Far From Me	5:09
4. Angel From Montgomery	5:07
5. Donald & Lydia	4:09
6. Christmas In Prison	3:36
7. Storm Windows	4:26
8. Grandpa Was A Carpenter	2:52
9. The Late John Garfield Blues	3:46
10. Blue Umbrella	3:53
11. Six O'Clock News	4:36
12. People Puttin' People Down	4:00
13. Sam Stone	4:39
14. Please Don't Bury Me	3:06
15. Hello In There	4:56

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Review

When John Prine wrote and recorded the likes of "Hello in There," "Angel from Montgomery," and "Souvenirs" in the early '70s, he came across like a Social Security recipient in a young man's body. As he revisits those tunes and more favorites from his salad days, the wisdom Prine possessed as a twentysomething troubadour seems all the more remarkable. The raison d'être for Souvenirs may be rather prosaic. Prine rerecorded 15 early classics so that he could own master recordings of a bunch of songs from his first three albums, as well as a few stragglers from the late '70s and early '80s. But the flatteringly spare arrangements and Prine's wizened delivery only add weight to these heavy-hearted folk tunes. "It took me years to get those souvenirs / And I don't know how they slipped away from me," Prine sings on the title track, a remnant from 1972's Diamonds in the Rough. Well, John, they didn't slip away at all; they're still shining like gems under a layer of dust. --Steven Stolder

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