DISQUS

Popdose: Basement Songs: John Prine and Iris Dement, “In Spite of Ourselves”

  • rsbrandt · 1 year ago
    Theodore Sturgeon may have said it best when he ended one of his stories so:

    "And they lived happily ever after. But it wasn't easy."
  • ldp · 1 year ago
    Amen, brutha!

    Our band (R.I.P.) covered this and it's a great, great song. Prine is classic. Check out Souvenirs or Great Days -- both have a good sampling of "hits."
  • eric · 1 year ago
    I'm afraid I have difficulty getting excited about anything John Prine's done since the mid-1980s. The first five or six albums were mighty impressive, though. I really wanted to like this. Iris Dement is Mrs. Greg Brown, if I'm not very much mistaken.

    This is sweet, corny, off-beat and off-kilter, but it's no Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard. :)