Product description Star-studded 1999 duets album featuring Lucinda Williams,
Emmylou Harris, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless & others You've got
to hand it to John Prine. On the first song on this collection of duets, he
plunges valiantly into "(We're Not) The Jet Set," singing the part made famous
by George Jones, the Caruso of country music. And Prine, never blessed with
the most pliant pipes, promptly pancakes a note flatter than Kansas. Aw, heck!
The songwriter's songwriter takes a curious turn with his first studio album
since 1995's Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings. Here he's penned only the
hysterically coarse title track, opting instead to coo a slew of classic
lovin'-and-losin' country tunes with Iris DeMent, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou
Harris, Connie Smith, Trisha Yearwood, Melba Montgomery, Patty Loveless, Fiona
Prine, and Dolores Keane. Given Prine's ragged-but-right voice, the effect is
something akin to casting a grizzled character actor opposite Katherine
Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story. And you know what? It'd probably still be a
charming (albeit very different) movie, because romantic comedies, like
country duets, are all about chemistry, which is something In Spite of
Ourselves has in excess. --Steven Stolder P.when('A').execute(function(A) {
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"The theme linking these honky-tonk standards and obscurities is fidelity, or
the lack thereof, served up with a double shot of wry." -- Rolling Stone See
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