melba montgomery sang on the album spite of ourselves with john prine.
melba montgomery sang on the album spite of ourselves with john prine.
who sings on the album spite of ourselves with john prine?
melba montgomery
in spite of ourselves









































in spite of ourselves is the 13th studio album of john prine, featuring duets with various well-known female folk and alt-country vocalists, released in 1999.









































the album was prine’s first release since successfully battling throat cancer. the female duet partners include iris dement, connie smith, lucinda williams, trisha yearwood, melba montgomery, emmylou harris, dolores keane, patty loveless, and his wife, fiona prine.









































section::::reception.
in spite of ourselves
"common sense" was produced by steve cropper and was recorded at ardent studios in memphis and larabee studios in los angeles. the album features contributions from bonnie raitt, glenn frey, jackson browne and steve goodman. bassist donald "duck" dunn, who played in booker t and the mgs with cropper, plays on "forbidden jimmy" and "saddle in the rain". the album marked the first time prine recorded an album on atlantic without producer arif mardin, and critics took note the change in the prine sound. in the "great days: the john prine anthology" liner notes, prine insists "sweet revenge" "was a really good record, but i didn't want to keep making the same album over and over, do another 'dear abby.' i was really reaching on "common sense", trying to do some different things musically." according to eddie huffman’s book "john prine: in spite of himself", the singer was “perfectly content with the record he cut in memphis. but cropper was moving into the rock ‘n’ roll big leagues as a producer, working on rod stewart’s next record around the same time. he decided prine’s album needed fleshing out. despite the singer’s reservations, cropper took the tapes to los angeles and added the kinds of overdubs prine said he wanted to avoid...”
common sense (john prine album)