Standard Songs for Average People
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John Prine & Mac Wiseman
Standard Songs for Average People
[ Oh Boy Records / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 1 May 2007
Prine & Wiseman's collection of classic-country covers, includes Lefty Frizzell's "Saginaw, Michigan''; Charlie Feathers' "I Forgot to Remember to Forget''; Ernest Tubbs' "Blue-Eyed Elaine''; Leon Payne's "I Love You Because''; and Al Dexter's "Pistol-Packin' Mama''.
John Prine & Mac Wiseman's collection of classic-country covers, includes Lefty Frizzell's "Saginaw, Michigan''; Charlie Feathers' "I Forgot to Remember to Forget''; Ernest Tubbs' "Blue-Eyed Elaine''; Leon Payne's "I Love You Because''; and Al Dexter's "Pistol-Packin' Mama''. The album features Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Kenny Malone on drums, Charles Cochran on keyboards and a cast of "several others".
It's no stretch to call 'Standard Songs for Average People' a masterpiece. Standard Songs, yes, but with extraordinary choices and performances. Average people these aren't, but the title carries the message that music like this, timeless and gentle and humane, is not for music snobs or insiders. It's not only the old or the young or for a demographic or psychographic. It is, across generation and persuasion, for all of us.
Tracks:
1. Blue Eyed Elaine
2. Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age
3. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
4. I Love You Because
5. Pistol Packin' Mama
6. Saginaw Michigan
7. Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine
8. Old Cape Cod
9. Death Of Floyd Collins
10. The Blue Side Of Lonesome
11. In The Garden
12. Just The Other Side Of Nowhere
13. Old Rugged Cross
14. Where The Blue Of The Night
