Release Date: 01 July 2016
Label: Oh Boy Records / Thirty Tigers
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0094012004026
Genres: Folk
Description
The new two-disc archival release from John Prine featuring studio & live recordings dating back to 1970, one year before his debut album.
Long before the awards and accolades, the concerts and albums, John Prine trudged through snow in the cold Chicago winters, delivering mail to his childhood suburb. “I always likened the mail route to a library with no books,” says John Prine. “I passed the time each day making up these little ditties.”
'The Singing Mailman Delivers' is a two-disc archival release featuring the earliest studio and live recordings from Prine dating back to 1970, one year before his debut album.
In August 1970, John Prine visited a Chicago radio station for an interview. “I asked after the show if it were possible to stick around and tape all the songs I had written up until then,” says Prine.
The live performance was recorded at the Fifth Peg in Chicago in November 1970, where Prine played three nights a week, while still delivering mail during the day. Prine takes the live audience through twelve of his classic tunes, a few of which already sound like crowd favourites.
These amateur recordings on 'The Singing Mailman Delivers' truly show Prine as a poet whose songs were refined since inception, and written by an unassuming songwriter, trying to pass time on his mail route.
Tracklisting
Paul Thorn
Jason Boland & The Stragglers
Pug Johnson
Hayes Carll
Maggie Antone
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Benjamin Booker
Michigander
John Prine
John Prine
John Prine
John Prine
John Prine
John Prine
John Prine
