Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings is an album by American

United States

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 folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 singer John Prine

John Prine

John Prine is an American country/folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s.-Biography:...

, released in 1995.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote of the album "Fans of the early Prine may find that sound over-produced, but the songs never get lost, and with Prine's typically humorous, off-center view of the world..." Music critic Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics".One of the earliest professional rock critics, Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, published since 1969 in his Consumer Guide columns...

 wrote "Prine's waggish pathos and lip-smacking Americanese have been whetted by the divorce that keeps nosing in where it's not wanted."

Track listing

1. "New Train" (John Prine) – 3:24
2. "Ain't Hurtin' Nobody" (Prine) – 5:01
3. "All the Way With You" (Prine, Gary Nicholson) – 3:52
4. "We Are the Lonely" (Prine, Nicholson) – 4:28
5. "Lake Marie" (Prine) – 6:00
6. "Humidity Built the Snowman" (Prine) – 4:27
7. "Day Is Done" (Prine, Nicholson) – 3:33
8. "Quit Hollerin' at Me" (Prine, Nicholson) – 4:16
9. "Big Fat Love" (Prine, Nicholson) – 3:58
10. "Same Thing Happened to Me" (Prine, Nicholson) – 3:18
11. "This Love Is Real" (Prine, Lee Clayton) – 3:18
12. "Leave the Lights On" (Prine, Howie Epstein
    Howie Epstein
    Howard Norman Epstein , was a musician best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early life:...
    
    , Phil Parlapiano, Joe Romersa) – 3:28
13. "He Forgot That It Was Sunday" (Prine) – 5:38
14. "I Love You So Much It Hurts" (Floyd Tillman) – 2:32

Personnel

• John Prine - vocals, guitar
• Marianne Faithfull
  Marianne Faithfull
  Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....
  
   - background vocals
• John Jorgenson
  John Jorgenson
  John Jorgenson is a US musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, Jorgenson is also proficient in the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone...
  
   - multi-instruments, vocals
• Doug Hamblin - background vocals
• Benmont Tench
  Benmont Tench
  Benjamin Montmorency Tench, III is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early years:...
  
   - multi-instruments
• Patti Brooks - background vocals
• Howie Epstein
  Howie Epstein
  Howard Norman Epstein , was a musician best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early life:...
  
   - multi-instruments, vocals
• Bob Glaub
  Bob Glaub
  Bob Glaub is an American bass player and session musician. He's played with such artists and bands as Journey, Jackson Browne, Bee Gees, Eric Carmen, Linda Ronstadt, Leo Sayer, Warren Zevon, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, Bonnie Raitt and many others....
  
   - bass
• John Hobbs - piano
• Jay Dee Manness - pedal steel
• Gary Nicholson - multi-instruments
• Phil Parlapiano - multi-instruments
• Joe Romersa - drums, perscussion
• Vince Santoro - percussion
• Sarah Taylor - background vocals
• Waddy Wachtel
  Waddy Wachtel
  Robert "Waddy" Wachtel is an American musician, composer and record producer, most notable for his guitar work...
  
  - electric and acoustic guitar
• Gary Riley - hurdy gurdy, percussion
• Rock Deadrick - drums, percussion
• Carol Leffler - background vocals

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1995	Billboard Top 200 Albums	159