melba montgomery sang the song in spite of ourselves with john prine.
melba montgomery sang the song in spite of ourselves with john prine.
who sings the song in spite of ourselves with john prine?
melba montgomery
wilber played guitar on john prine's grammy award-winning album "fair & square" and on prine's two grammy award-nominated albums "live on tour" and "in spite of ourselves" (which spent 32 weeks on the billboard country charts).









































jason has accompanied john prine on duet recordings with emmylou harris, lucinda williams, josh ritter, patty loveless, iris dement, trisha yearwood, and sara watkins.









































he has played with other artists, including 









































john prine, hal ketchum, greg brown, iris dement, todd snider, greg trooper, carrie newcomer, tom russell and tim grimm, krista detor, kim fox, bill wilson, and over the rhine.
jason wilber
prine was offered a recording contract by jerry wexler of atlantic records after the record executive saw the singer perform several of his own songs at a kris kristofferson show at the bitter end. the song "paradise" was recorded at a&r studios in new york (with prine's brother dave and good friend steve goodman as sidemen) but the remaining cuts were recorded at american sound studios in memphis. produced by arif mardin, who had previously collaborated with the likes of aretha franklin and king curtis, prine found his new studio surroundings intimidating. in the "great days: the john prine anthology" liner notes he admits, "i was terrified. i went straight from playing by myself, still learning how to sing, to playing with elvis presley's rhythm section." initially, the musicians at american, accustomed to playing heavily rhythmic material and funky grooves, were thrown by prine and his songs. as recounted in eddie huffman’s biography "john prine: in spite of himself", percussionist hayward bishop later recalled, “there was no evidence of groove whatever, and i was hungry for groove. prine came off like a folk poet. this guy was really nasally, he didn’t have any tone to his voice, and all his songs were in the same key! i thought, ‘this is gonna be like milking a dag-blasted dog!’”
john prine (album)