John Prine – Fair & Square (2-LP Vinyl) Bracelet with Melvin Seals and the

with Melvin Seals and the vocalists pushing the material somewhere the Dead never quite went

and Ronnie playing to a few hundred people rather than a few hundred thousand

come along for the ride

Shipwrecks feels timeless across decades

But regardless of the sentiment

John Prine – Fair & Square (2-LP Vinyl) Bracelet with Melvin Seals and thePrine cut this one at the age of 58, and the ease of it is the whole point, a songwriter completely unbothered by trends and fully at home in his own voice. Recorded with producer Jim Rooney, it sits comfortably alongside his plainspoken classics, drawing on country, folk, and the quietly devastating humor that made him a songwriter's songwriter long before Nashville caught up. John Prine's 2005 album, Fair & Square, available on LP from Oh Boy