John Prine – Prime Prine (LP Vinyl)

John Prine packed more hard-won truth into a three-minute song than most writers manage in a career, and *Prime Prine* remains one of the finest entry points into that catalog. Drawn from his early Atlantic Records years, this collection captures a songwriter at the peak of his powers, when "Angel from Montgomery" and "Sam Stone" were still fresh dispatches from the American margins.