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Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine

Various Artists

Compilation · 2010

Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine is a tribute album of twelve Prine songs, each recorded by a different act, released on 21 June 2010 on Oh Boy Records, the label Prine started in 1981. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver wrote some of the liner notes. The title comes from a lyric in Prine’s “Souvenirs.” A second volume followed in 2021.

Old Crow Medicine Show contribute “Angel from Montgomery,” which Prine wrote and first recorded on his 1971 debut album. Bonnie Raitt’s version on her 1974 album Streetlights was the one that first brought the song wide recognition. The other contributors are Justin Vernon, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, My Morning Jacket, Josh Ritter, Lambchop, Justin Townes Earle, the Avett Brothers, Sara Watkins, Drive-By Truckers, Liz Isenberg with Deer Tick, and Those Darlins.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) 4:02
  2. 2 Wedding Day in Funeralville 2:09
  3. 3 All the Best 3:17
  4. 4 Mexican Home 3:29
  5. 5 Six O'clock News 4:24
  6. 6 Far from Me 4:35
  7. 7 Spanish Pipedream 3:04
  8. 8 Angel From Montgomery alt version 4:30
  9. 9 The Late John Garfield Blues 4:06
  10. 10 Daddy's Little Pumpkin 3:13
  11. 11 Unwed Fathers 3:40
  12. 12 Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian 3:38

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