John Prine with Philip Donnelly
Alabama Theatre
Birmingham, Ala.
April 15, 1982


01. Be My Friend Tonight 4:56
02. Six o'Clock News 5:26
03. Fish And Whistle 4:17
04. Iron Ore Betty 3:52
05. All Night Blue 4:05
06. The Late John Garfield Blues 4:56
07. Grandpa Was a Carpenter 3:17
08. Common Sense 4:07
09. Illegal Smile 5:11
10. Mexican Home 6:11
11. From Clare to Here (Philip Donnelly, vocals) 5:36
12. Dear Abby 5:17
13. John anecdote 2:38
14. No Name Girl 6:17
15. My Own Best Friend 2:57
16. One Red Rose 2:33
17. talk 2:47
18. The Oldest Baby in the World 3:00
19. Saddles in the Rain 6:24
20. Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone 2:54
21. talk 1:42
22. I've Got Frogs On Me (?) 2:46

Total: 91:20



source: unknown mics > ? > Shelly Rosenzweig's first-generation cassette (unbranded 90 min.)

transfer: master cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A > Metric Halo MIO-2882 > Macintosh MacBook Pro > MIO Console 5.6 > wav > MacBook Air M1 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced (volume normalized 5db) > wav > xACT 2.57 > FLAC (24/48)


Notes
This is from the Sheldon Rosenzweig collection. Special thanks to Shelly for sharing his tapes. Transferred by Richard Russell, November 2025.

Cassette tape itself was unbranded (90-minute). The tape-shell insert was from a TDK-D60 cassette.

Show started about 2-1/2 hours late because Prine missed his plane to Birmingham in Atlanta. (Coincidentally, it's about a 2-1/2 hour drive to Birmimgham from Atlanta.)

According to a show review published the next day in the Birmingham News, the entire performance was actually nearly 2-1/2 hours. So this recording is missing about an hour.

There are several breaks or pauses in the recording, including at 57, 65, 66, 69, 77 and 84 minutes - and likely more.

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