John Prine on Cayamo
The Cayamo cruise is an Americana and folk music festival on the water. It’s a great environment for music fans and musicians alike. The first of regular reports from Cayamo:
John Prine laughed and said the 60-minute limit on his Cayamo show posed some pacing problems.
“We usually play for two and a half hours, and we’re trying to cram it all into an hour,” he said.
That meant a little less conversation with the audience, but a full slate of Prine classics, including “Six O’Clock News,” Grandpa Was A Carpenter” and “Hello in There.”
Brandi Carlile seemed overjoyed to sing “In Spite of Ourselves” and blushed when Prine sang “convict movies make her horny.” She then joined in on a powerful rendition of “Angel From Montgomery.”
Prine joked about the gore of early songs like “Six O’Clock News” and later revisited the theme with his closer “Lake Marie” and its intertwining of senseless violence and trying to rekindle a marriage over sausages. The audience “sizzled” on cue.