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At 48, John Prine is one of those hasn't-lost-a-step guys. He's not especially prolific--Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings (Oh Boy) is only his third album of the past decade--but he rarely writes a foolish line. And though he's a folkie who doesn't rock as good as he thinks, even in the Nashville he now calls home, nobody is more adept at pinning down the day-to-day details of ordinary, fucked up lives. He's warm, he's sharp, he's funny, he's weird, and his new one is varied and consistent enough to win him the sales 1991's The Missing Years made him dream of again. That doesn't mean it will, of course. But that doesn't mean you should wait for the next one, even though it's sure to come.
Fast Cut: Half disco-ish house, half funk-reggae jungle, all techno, Dance Hits U.K. (Moonshine Music) is another way to get to the incomprehensible welter of British dance music--track by catchy, arbitrarily compiled track.
Playboy, Mar. 1995
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