John Prine's Debut Album & RIP Meat Loaf

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot do a classic album dissection of John Prine's debut album with author Erin Osmon. They also listen to feedback on recent episodes from listeners and bid farewell to Meat Loaf.

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Featured Songs:

John Prine, "Angel From Montgomery," John Prine, Atlantic, 1971

John Prine, "A Good Time," Live at the 5th Peg, unreleased, 1970

John Prine, "Paradise," John Prine, Atlantic, 1971

John Prine, "Sam Stone," John Prine, Atlantic, 1971

Dusty Springfield, "Son of a Preacher Man," Dusty In Memphis, Atlantic, 1969

Bonnie Raitt, "Angel From Montgomery," Streetlights, Warner Bros, 1974

John Prine, "Illegal Smile," John Prine, Atlantic, 1971

John Prine, "Spanish Pipedream," John Prine, Atlantic, 1971

John Prine, "Hello In There," John Prine, Atlantic, 1971

John Prine, "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore," John Prine, Atlantic, 1971

Viagra Boys, "In Spite Of Ourselves (feat. Amy Taylor)," Welfare Jazz, Year0001, 2021

Iris DeMent, "Let The Mystery Be," Infamous Angel, Philo, 1992

John Prine, "Jesus, The Missing Years," The Missing Years, Oh Boy, 1991

John Prine, "When I Get To Heaven," The Tree of Forgiveness, Oh Boy, 2018

Throwing Muses, "Counting Backwards," The Real Ramona, 4AD, Sire, 1991

Neal Francis, "Can't Stop The Rain," In Plain Sight, ATO, 2021

Aimee Mann, "Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath," Queens of the Summer Hotel, SuperEgo, 2021

Pom Pom Squad, "Head Cheerleader," Death of a Cheerleader, City Slang, 2021

Meat Loaf, "Bat Out of Hell," Bat Out of Hell, Cleveland International, 1977

The Go-Go's, "Vacation," Vacation, I.R.S., 1982

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0:00.0	Hey there if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the Patreon page and free. Oh, Shh, Shh, Shh, Shhrhrhrh.
0:24.0	Shhrhrhik.
0:25.0	Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:28.0	hmm. You're listening to sound opinions and this week we are joined by author Aaron Osmond
0:40.4	for a classic album dissection of John Prines 1971 debut.
0:45.7	I'm Jim De Regottis.
0:47.1	And I'm Greg Kot.
0:48.3	We'll also hear feedback from listeners on recent episodes
0:51.5	and bid farewell to Meatloaf.
0:53.0	But first, let's jump into John Prine.
0:56.0	For Sound Opinions listeners, the name Aaron Osmond should be familiar.
1:00.0	She's the music writer who joined us last to talk about Jason Molina in October.
1:05.4	Now we're very happy to have her back to help us dissect John Prines' debut album,
1:10.6	which is the topic of her new 33 and a third book.
1:14.0	Listeners will also recall that we had John Prine himself on the show back in 2018,
1:20.0	episode 651 if you want to look it up on any of our streaming platforms.
1:24.0	Of course there's nothing like talking directly to the artist but Aaron's book paints a vivid
1:29.2	portrait of Prine at the very beginning of his career by interviewing John's friends, family, and
1:34.8	colleagues. Aaron, let's start by talking about what drew you to John Prime as a
1:38.7	subject for a book. You know, as Chicago and we hear the story, it's sort of this mythical thing but also you know I ride really hard for the
1:46.3	Midwest and Prine is such an example of sort of low-key Midwest brilliance right so I think those two things together
1:52.9	made me really want to sort of capture this moment in time
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