For Better, or Worse
| For Better, or Worse | ||||
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| Studio album by John Prine | ||||
| Released | 2016 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Oh Boy | |||
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| Robert Christgau |
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For Better, or Worse is a 2016 album of John Prine. It consists of tracks in which Prine teams with an all-star array of female singers to tackle carefully chosen vintage country tunes in duets. The album was also released in vinyl format that also included a mp3 download pass for the album.
The album is the second compilation album featuring duets with Prine. The first Prine's compilation of duets was in 1999 when he recorded the similarly styled In Spite of Ourselves.
The 15 tracks contain 14 duets with 11 female artists (with Iris DeMent, Lee Ann Womack and Kathy Mattea recording two duets and Alison Krauss, Susan Tedeschi, Holly Williams, Morgane Stapleton, Amanda Shires, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves and Prine's wife Fiona Prine recording one duet each. The last track is a solo recording, "Just Waitin'", by Prine.
Two of the artists, Iris DeMent and Fiona Prine had been featured in the 1999 album as well.
The album was debuted at number 2 on Billboard US Country Albums Charts and number 30 on the Billboard Hot 200. It also reached number 7 on U.S. Indie Albums Chart and number 5 on U.S. Folk Albums chart. The album has sold 43,700 copies in the US as of March 2017.
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