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In Spite of Ourselves
You've got to hand it to John Prine. On the first song on this collection of duets, he plunges valiantly into "(We're Not) The Jet Set," singing the part made famous by George Jones, the Caruso of country music. And Prine, never blessed with the most pliant pipes, promptly pancakes a note flatter than Kansas. Aw, heck! The songwriter's songwriter takes a curious turn with his first studio album since 1995's Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings. Here he's penned only the hysterically coarse title track, opting instead to coo a slew of classic lovin'-and-losin' country tunes with Iris DeMent, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Connie Smith, Trisha Yearwood, Melba Montgomery, Patty Loveless, Fiona Prine, and Dolores Keane. Given Prine's ragged-but-right voice, the effect is something akin to casting a grizzled character actor opposite Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story. And you know what? It'd probably still be a charming (albeit very different) movie, because romantic comedies, like country duets, are all about chemistry, which is something In Spite of Ourselves has in excess. --Steven Stolder
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Tracks| 1 | (We're Not) The Jet Set - Iris DeMent, John Prine | | 2 | So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) - John Prine, Connie Smith | | 3 | Wedding Bells/Let's Turn Back the Years - John Prine, Lucinda Williams | | 4 | When Two Worlds Collide - John Prine, Trisha Yearwood | | 5 | Milwaukee, Here I Come - Melba Montgomery, John Prine | | 6 | I Know One - Emmylou Harris, John Prine | | 7 | It's a Cheating Situation - Dolores Keane, John Prine | | 8 | Back Street Affair - Patty Loveless, John Prine | | 9 | Loose Talk - John Prine, Connie Smith | | 10 | Let's Invite Them Over - Iris DeMent, John Prine | | 11 | 'Til a Tear Becomes a Rose - Fiona Prine, John Prine | | 12 | In a Town This Size - Dolores Keane, John Prine | | 13 | We Could - Iris DeMent, John Prine | | 14 | We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds - Melba Montgomery, John Prine | | 15 | In Spite of Ourselves - Iris DeMent, John Prine | | 16 | Dear John (I've Sent Your Saddle Home) - John Prine |
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