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John Prinewas cleaning his basement when he stumbled upon an old concert recording. But it wasnt just any concert recording: It was Prine, in his late Seventies prime, playing full-on rock & roll with an electric band. Now the show, a rarity in the Grammy winners catalog, is getting wider release this week:September 78will be issued digitally for the first time on August 25th.
Recorded at the Park West Theater in Chicago in the fall of 1978,September 78sees the singer-songwriter in raucous form. He barrels through the harmonica-laden opener Often is a Word I Seldom Use, stumbles through the hillbilly hijinks of Please Dont Bury Me and sings ragged harmonies on a bluesy take of Angel From Montgomery. He throws in a couple covers: the Righteous Brothers Try to Find Another Man and a breakneck version of Elvis Presleys Treat Me Nice.
Prine had recorded theBruised OrangeLP earlier that year, a few songs from which Crooked Piece of Time and Iron Ore Betty appear onSeptember 78. The Park West recording sounds more like a precursor to the album he cut a few months later,Pink Cadillac, which makes sense given that Prines backing band here Tommy Pickles Piekarski, Howard Levy, and longtime friend and collaborator Johnny Burns all joined him on that record. -Rolling Stone
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