'John Prine's songs claimed sweet revenge by making room for the wide range of emotions that careen through people as they stumble and dance through life,' writes NPR music critic annkpowers. 'He gave us the gift of his head and his heart.'
, and would never be going to Arnold's Country Kitchen again to nab the last piece of banana cream pie; and that I'd never stand in a packed room full of old hippies and young hipsters and just plain folks and bellow out the words to"In Spite of Ourselves" as he chuckled at all of us; that I'd never meet another young songwriter who'd recently been blessed the wisdom he offered as Nashville's most generous mentor; that old friends like Bonnie Raitt would never...
the gospel prayer of"Angel From Montgomery" and the patriarch's poem"Summer's End." But it turned out I didn't want to hear any of those, not right away. I wanted to hear"Sweet Revenge.""Sweet Revenge" is, on the surface, pretty ridiculous. It's the title track from Prine's third cockeyed optimism with a smear of darkness dirtying the frame."I got kicked off Noah's ark," Prine sings like some shaggy Don Quixote."There were two of everything but one of me." The wisecracks keep coming as the band choogles behind him and Cissy Houston adds some gospel harmonies. The narrator
croaks, whatever that means. It doesn't matter. What it means is that life makes no obvious sense, but people can make stories from the random-seeming joy and pain it offers, and share them with each other, and do a lot more than muddle through.
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