The second forgotten album that I listened to Friday night was John Prine’s Aimless Love. Aimless Love was Prine”s eight album released in 1884. Now I wore out the first three albums John Prine, Diamonds in the Rough and Sweet Revenge and each album I have through Storm Windows released in 1980 got a good listen to but Aimless Love and German Afternoons never got that many spins, why do you say, oh, the eighties are the missing years of music listening, mainly resulting from the births of Nick (’79), Andrew (’82), Peter (’86) and Elizabeth (’90) and assorted family tragedies including the deaths of my mother-in-law and my father. Mainly the ’80’s were the musical years of Raffi and Sharon, Lois andBram! So I really didn’t pick up listening to Prine again until The Missing Years release.
But listening to Aimless Love I do remember quite a few of the songs including “Be My Friend Tonight”, “The Bottomless Lake” and a song that whenever I hear it I wonder where it came from “Unwed Fathers” , now I know. Here’s a complete track list:
- “Be My Friend Tonight” (John Prine, Roger Cook, Shel Silverstein) – 3:15
- “Aimless Love” (Prine) – 3:07
- “Me, Myself and I” (John Prine, Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn) – 2:42
- “The Oldest Baby in the World” (Prine, Donnie Fritts) – 3:05
- “Slow Boat to China” (Prine, Bobby Whitlock, Linda Whitlock) – 3:46
- “The Bottomless Lake” (Prine) – 3:42
- “Maureen, Maureen” (Prine) – 3:16
- “Somewhere Someone’s Falling in Love” (Prine, Fritts) – 3:04
- “People Puttin’ People Down” (Prine) – 2:48
- “Unwed Fathers” (Prine, Bobby Braddock) – 3:30
- “Only Love” (Prine, Cook, Sandy Mason) – 3:29
Songs that I didn’t remember well include “The Oldest Baby in the World” and “Slow Boat to China” So overall it was a good listen! I think I’ll use Spin it Again to record it and convert it to MP3’s for future listening! Here’s John doing “Bottomless Lake” from the album.