6 O'CLOCK NEWS |
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REVIEWS OF JOHN PRINE CONCERTS & ALBUMS CONCERT REVIEWS BY YEAR
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Schnitzer Auditorium, Portland, Oregon |
Here's the setlist: | ||
1 Spanish Pipedream 2 Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore 3 Six O'Clock News 4 Souvenirs 5 Fish'n'Whistle 6 Glory Of True Love 7 Taking A Walk//All The Best 8 Angel From Montgomery Solo set: 9 Long Monday 10 Crazy As A Loon 11 Donald & Lydia 12 Other Side of Town 13 Dear Abby |
14 In Spite of Ourselves 15 That's The Way The World Goes 'Round 16 Sam Stone (band came back on) 17 Bear Creek Blues 18 She Is My Everything 19 I Ain't Hurtin' Nobody 20 Some Human's Ain't Human 21 Hello In There 22 Lake Marie 23 Bruised Orange (Chain Of Sorrow) 24 Sweet Revenge 25 Illegal Smile Encore: 26 Paradise |
The boys were fantastic as always too, such perfect accompaniment I can't imagine it any other way really. Jason played harmonica for most of Six O'Clock News, I don't remember him playing one for a whole song before. Tom Russell & his guitar player (?) on Paradise brought the house down and I can't say I've enjoyed that closer more before. 27 songs, including 8 in the solo set, which seemed extra generous to me as well. My first west coast Prine show. Come back soon, John...
By:
john duval
I never heard him live when he was in his prime. To bad. I think
I missed a national treasure. I've heard the records ( a few ) and I like them. His delivery was always quirky and that appealed to me. The passage of time and the ravages of cancer have taken it's toll, but the guy delivered two hours of some of the most engaging back porch
Americana I've heard in decades. Humor was his strong suit I believe and he's lost non of that, along with the impromptu rap. Five thousand people were obviously die hard fans and with most of audience singing along to the better known tunes, it was just a gas. I had forgotten how many of his songs had stayed with me all these years. Especially the political ones which he dished up with much glee and it is
obvious that they have as much bearing today as when he wrote them decades
ago. He was positively giggling with mirth as he took a few jabs at the current emperor. And then he got serious with a heart felt rendition of Sam Stone that just keeps getting more gut wrenching with the passage of time.
I was hoping for one song in particular but when he ended the set I wasn't disappointed. But then came the encore and the
closing tune. Out came the opening act, Tom Russell and his guitar player and along with Prine and his band, put it away with what
I had come to hear. A ten minute version of Paradise that just had me almost in tears. John and Tom trading
verses and the guitar players trading choruses, It was just too much. And with the audience singing the chorus it became almost a devotional. I just beamed up.
So that's the review from PDX. A gig worth every dime of the fifty bucks I paid for the ticket. Freaking outstanding. Makes me realize again that we boomers may have had our faults, but we produced a generation of musicians the like of which this country is not to see again for a long time. If ever.
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