Singer-songwriter Matt Newberg was introduced at a friend's wedding to the songwriter who later would become one of his biggest influences. The songwriter was John Prine, and the song his friends asked him to play at their wedding was "That's the Way the World Goes Round. It's kind of a strange song for a wedding, since it's kind of dark ... but if you knew my friends, it would make sense," said Newberg, a midcoast native now living in Bath. "But it was my entry point for his music. I knew his big songs at that point, but never really delved into it. I got into everything he's done, from his hits to the older, more obscure stuff. I became a huge fan, forever."
John Prine's high energy and easy banter thrilled a packed crowd Friday night at the Merrill Auditorium. From the opening "Spanish Pipedream," remembered for the line "Throw out the TV," to the closing encore song, "Paradise," about the desecration of coal-mining country in Muhlenberg County, he sang most of the highlights of his nearly 40-year career.
Well, You might as well just relax a we're going to be here a long time. John Prine wasn't kidding.
Don't let the signature song fool you. Although it was Dan Tyminski's voice bellowing from George Clooney's mouth in the 2000 film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" the Vermont native is no "Man of Constant Sorrow." Instead, Tyminski is an authentic, down-to-earth guy who has kept a remarkably low profile when you consider his career by the numbers: 15 years with Alison Krauss & Union Station. Thirteen Grammy Awards. Eight million copies of the "O Brother" soundtrack sold, give or take a few. Countless session gigs for artists from Vince Gill to Reba McEntire to John Prine. Kevork Djansezian/AP
Folk singer/songwriter John Prine returns to Portland's Merrill Auditorium at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12. Prine will be joined by guests Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion. Tickets go on sale at noon on Friday at PortTix. Tickets are $35 and $40. In-person tickets at PortTix at 20 Myrtle St. in Portland, by phone at 842-0800 or online at https://tickets.porttix.com.
On Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster, artists as diverse as honkytonkers BR5-49 and cellist Yo-Yo Ma tackle 18 Foster classics, shining new light on the Lawrenceville-born songwriter, his enduring work and his life's equally enduring lesson to American artists: Don't get Foster'd. But that new light isn't always flattering to a songwriter whose work, especially his best-known songs ("Camptown Races," "Oh, Susanna"), has so often been discarded for the specter of minstrelsy and the weight of nostalgic Americana. Beautiful Dreamer does little to ease those burdens, with its easily dismissed NPR-smooth aesthetic lack of "frail forms fainting at the door," to borrow from Foster's masterpiece. "Though their voices are silent," Foster's "Hard Times" continues, "their pleading loo...
...John Prine's "My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight" sounds, ...
He's not pretty. His voice isn't amazing. His guitar playing doesn't win awards. But put the whole package together, and you have a living legend of roots music.
It's been a couple of years, so that means it's time for John Prine to make a return visit to Evansville. Prine will be at The Victory for a Jan. 27 concert. His opening act has not been announced.
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