Fair & Square EP

This EP feels like a quiet conversation held over a kitchen table long after the guests have gone home. It captures John Prine in his most comfortable state: unhurried, slightly raspy, and profoundly observant. While it serves as a companion to his full-length masterpiece from a few years prior, these specific recordings possess a unique gravity. The studio tracks are dry and close-mic'd, making every slide of a finger across a guitar string feel like it is happening inches from your ear. It is the sound of a man who has seen everything and decided that the small things, a Greyhound bus, a morning train, a simple truth, are the only things worth singing about.

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