John Prine
“Live at the Bottom Line”
The Bottom Line, New York, NY
1978-07-10
Lineage: SBD > Cassette > ??? > Speed Correction > Track Splitting > FLAC Level 8
Setlist:
- Fish and Whistle
- Angel From Montgomery
- My Own Best Friend
- Crooked Piece of Time
- Blue Umbrella
- Donald and Lydia
- Illegal Smile
- Intro to Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone
- Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone
- The Bottomless Lake
- Intro to Sam Stone
- Sam Stone
- That’s the Way That the World Goes ‘Round
- There She Goes
- I Had a Dream
- If You Don’t Want My Love
- Chinatown
- Pretty Good
- Intro to Bruised Orange
- Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)
- Hello in There
- Grandpa Was a Carpenter
- Ballad of a Teenage Queen
- Paradise
- Please Don’t Bury Me
- Sleepy Eyed Boy
- Treat Me Nice
- Sweet Revenge
- How Lucky
- Sailin’ Around
- Saddle in the Rain
- Onomatopoeia
- I’m Not That Good at Goodbye
- Mexican Home
Total Duration: 133 minutes and 32 seconds
Band:
John Prine – guitar, vocals
Howard Levy – piano, organ, harmonica, pennywhistle, mandolin
Johnny Burns – lead guitar
Tommy “Pickles” Piekarski – bass
Angelo Varias – drums
Notes:
Coincidentally, lots of John Prine’s best sounding shows are from his “Chicago band” era in the late-70’s. Johnny Burns, who led Prine’s band at the time, has been sharing a lot of John Prine memories on Facebook recently.
Prine did 4 shows at the famous Greenwich Village nightclub, the Bottom Line, on two nights back-to-back in 1978. One of the shows on 11th July has been very widely circulated for decades, yet the shows on the previous night had been relatively unknown to collectors. Actually, the 10th one sounds evidently better than the 11th one!!
This concert promoted Prine’s “Bruised Orange” album. It featured the only known electric full-band recording of “Donald and Lydia”, a song Prine almost always did acoustic. It also included several rarely-done covers: Johnny Cash’s “The Ballad of a Teenage Queen”, Elvis Presley’s “Treat Me Nice” and Lefty Frizzell’s “I’m Not That Good at Goodbye”.
This show might have been in circulation for a few years, but I believe this speed-corrected version has never been circulated before. I have a copy of the show on the 11th too, but it’s missing a 18th track, Bruised Orange. If any body have a copy with that song included, please reseed. Thanks! All these Bottom Line shows were recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show.
Do not sell this recording.
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Support the artists by purchasing their official releases and going to their live shows.
If you’re tired of physical CDs, you can go to Prine’s Bandcamp website and purchase his albums in FLAC/ALAC/WAV lossless format: http://johnprine.bandcamp.com/
John McCutcheon wrote a very touching tribute song to Prine, so good that it moved me to tears. You can hear it at https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691194858300006.
