John Prine - "Fair & Square" Standard Black Vinyl label_Blackground Records Revered for instrumental virtuosity

Revered for instrumental virtuosity

which hung on the studio wall in Cardiff

" Each providing particular signatures to the album

" the closest a song can come to waves crashing on a beach in song form

Bursting with a veritable cornucopia of stimuli

John Prine - "Fair & Square" Standard Black Vinyl label_Blackground Records Revered for instrumental virtuosityQuintessential American singer songwriter John Prine returns with Fair & Square. With the occasional wheezing accordion, curlicue electric guitar parts, quick wristed mandolins, billowing B 3 pads and puddles of pedal steel guitar, the rough voiced singer songwriter's first self produced record is a homey affair that draws generously from the palette of traditional American music, be it folk, bluegrass, shuffles, vintage rock & roll, torch, country