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Somebody Else's Troubles
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Track Listing
- Dutchman
- Six Hours Ahead of the Sun
- Song for David
- Chicken Cordon Blues
- Somebody Else's Troubles
- Loving of the Game
- I Ain't Heard You Play No Blues
- Don't Do Me Any Favors Anymore
- Vegetable Song (The Barn Yard Dance)
- Lincoln Park Pirates
- Ballad of Penny Evans
- I'm My Own Grandpaw [Live][*]
- Auctioneer [Live][*]
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #247777 in Music
- Released on: 1993-06-30
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
One of the great albums - and the greatest song
I saw Steve a number of times on Boston and Cambridge in the early 70s. Once he played Symphony Hall in Boston, it was sold out and you could have heard a pin drop. He held the audience spellbound.
This is one of his earlier albums and contains a good mix of funny, sad, sentimental, and just entertaining songs.
Steve's version of The Dutchman is my all-time favorite song. I know he didn't write it, but it is such an exquisite song that it chokes me up almost forty years later. (His live version of this song is also great and includes some of the finest guitar playing you'll ever hear.)
Steve was the quintessential artist for me. He was only a few years older than me and I was hugely into folk and acoustic music back then, and still am. I felt like his music spoke directly to me.
Listening to this album is like putting on an old pair of worm slippers. Comfortable.
Great album/Great Human Being
I bought this album when it came out, since I recognized him as the author of "City of New Orleans". I burned it to CD years ago, and still listen. I just listened to it a minute ago, now I'm ripping the CD into iTunes for my iPod. "Ballad of Penny Evans" still makes me shudder. What a master he was. And what a cast of superstars played on this album.
"Baby, I ain't never heard you play no blues". Nowadays, B.B. King needs to wear a life-jacket.
Don't think, just buy it.
great stories from a great storyteller
Growing up in Wisconsin amid the folksingers and protesters who over the decades have become middle-aged Prairie Home Companion afficionados, I met Steve (and his scruffy sidekick whom I later learned was John Prine) while going to college in Madison, Wisconsin and moonlighting (literally) as a lighting designer in college music venues. Steve had an energy and wit that pervaded all of his music. Like my fellow yankee from Lilburn, GA, I hand out Steve's CDs to cherished friends, doing my small part to keep the music flowing. I was pleased to see John Prine in concert recently, still doing some of the old songs in honor of his best friend. The Ballad of Penny Evans, about a war widow of the Vietnam era - rings as cutting and fresh now, in the context of the current conflict, as it did then. Enjoy this album, and buy more - Artistic Hair is one of my personal favorites - for your friends.
