John Prine
Paramount Theatre
Denver, Colorado
April 12, 2007

- Mindy Smith opening -
Disc TWo tracks 9 - 13

Audience recording, Sound B+

Disc One

01. Spanish Pipedream
02. Picture Show
03. Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
04. Six O'Clock News
05. Storm Windows
06. Souvenirs
07. Grandpa Was A Carpenter
08. Fish and Whistle
09. The Glory of True Love
10. Long Monday *
11. You Got Gold (break from missing two tracks with MS)
12. Jesus, The Missing Years
13. Please Don't Bury Me
14. Clay Pigeons
15. Dear Abby
16. Sam Stone

Total Time: 70:45

Disc Two

01. Bear Creek
02. She Is My Everything
03. Ain't Hurtin' Nobody
04. Hello In There
05. Lake Marie (picked up in progress at beginning due to disc swap)
06. - applause prior to encore -
07. People Puttin' People Down
08. Paradise
09. MS - Please Stay
10. MS - One Moment Please
11. MS - Long Island Shores
12. MS - Come To Jesus
13. MS - Jolene

Total Time: 67:52

John Prine – acoustic and electric guitars
Dave Jacques – acoustic and electric bass guitars
Jason Wilbur – electic guitars, mandolin, wind instruments

* with Mindy Smith, vocals

Lineage:

Audio Technica AT 831 lavalier cardioids (SP CMC 2) > Pre-Amp - Reactive Sounds SPA-2 Boost Box > HI-MD Recorder - Sony MZ RH10 > Linear PCM WAV files uploaded USB2 through Sony SonicStage 4.0 > Editing Cool Edit 2000 > tracking, sector boundary alignment, conversion FLAC Frontend 4.1.1 level 6. Minor edits.

Original audience recordings by Poor_Yorick seated Orchestra Right Row R just to front-right of soundboard

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Comments

Everything about to be said, it was a thrill to see both artists, my first for each. How great is was to witness the mentoring and succession-planning of a beloved, long-time artist working with and sharing the stage with a relatively young, promising singer/songwriter/performer. (Mindy was born after John had released his first album.) My enjoyment of their performances, unfortunately, was diminished by the muddy sound mix.

What you hear on this recording is how we heard the show. Much of the time, the electric instruments were too prominent and the vocals got lost somewhere between the speaker towers and my ears. Too bad.

Aside from this, there was plenty of music and an appreciative crowd. Unfortunately, I missed the first two numbers by Mindy Smith and (I think) two others that came after Long Monday which she sang with John. The former due to getting set up and the latter due to accidentally placing the recorder on standby when I marked the end of a track. After being so critical about the audio production, I should cane myself, no?

And unless I missed them, I don't think John played any songs off the new album, Standard Songs for Average People, to be released in late April. Interesting. If you have a chance to see him, go. Check out http://www.jpshrine.org for the tour schedule and other things.

Cheers,

P_Y