Pink Cadillac (album) Pink Cadillac (album) Pink Cadillac is the sixth album by American folk singer and songwriter John Prine, released in 1979. "Pink Cadillac" was produced by Knox Phillips and Jerry Phillips. Their father, legendary Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, produced two of the album's tracks. Recording took place at Sam Phillips Recording Studio in Memphis between January and May 1979. The album features Prine indulging his love for early rock and roll, with the singer telling David Fricke in 1993, "I wanted to do something noisy, something like if you had a buddy with a band and you walked into his
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