In spite of ourselves

"John Prine often sings like he's doing nothing more urgent than chewing on a blade of grass while lazing away a mid-August afternoon. His laconic tone is deceptive, because he's one of the most sharply observant storytellers the post-hippie folk-country scene has produced. Though In Spite of Ourselves includes only one Prine original - the ribald title song, in which the once-innocent Iris DeMent sings about the panty-sniffing rogue she can't help but love - it's full of Prine-worthy tales. The theme linking these honky-tonk standards and obscurities is fidelity, or the lack thereof, served up with a double shot of wry".

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"Buddy Emmons and Dan Dugmore, two incredible pedal steel players, and Sam Bush, Kenny Malone, Jason Wilber, Jim Rooney, and Marty Stuart are just a few of the stellar players featured on the album. Overall, In Spite of Ourselves ranks as one of Prine's finest works, a scrapbook of country classics, interpreted by some of the genres best female vocalists, in duet with one fine American singer and a great songwriter".

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