JOHN PRINE The Tree of Forgiveness LP Vinyl NEW 2018

TRACKLISTING

Knockin' On Your Screen Door
I Have Met My Love Today
Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone)
Summer's End
Caravan Of Fools
Lonesome Friends Of Science
No Ordinary Blue
Boundless Love
God Only Knows
When I Get To Heaven

Produced by Dave Cobb. Guest appearances on the record include Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires.

Highly-anticipated new album The Tree of Forgiveness is John Prine’s first collection of new material since 2005’s Grammy-winning Fair and Square. Rather than going out on a limb, Prine cultivated the themes that have brought international acclaim since the 1970s. For example, he can take a topic like loneliness and make it funny (Knockin’ on Your Screen Door) or heartbreaking (Summers End). Perfectly aligned with his quirkiest songs, The Lonesome Friends of Science makes its point through the characters he calls “those bastards in the white lab coats who experiment with mountain goats,” as well as the discredited planet Pluto and the towering Vulcan statue in Birmingham, Alabama.

Prine teamed with Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb to record in Nashville’s historic Studio A, enlisting friends like Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, and Amanda Shires to sing along. The songs are new, although some had waited to be finished for decades, like a co-write with Phil Spector called God Only Knows. Another incomplete song, I Have Met My Love Today, now celebrates the unexpected spark that leads to lifelong romance - with a dash of youthful innocence. The musical arrangements may be simpler than on past efforts, yet his unique ability to distill complex emotions into everyday language remains fully intact.