Pink Cadillac (album)

Pink Cadillac is the sixth album by American folk singer and songwriter John Prine, released in 1979. It was produced by Knox Phillips and Jerry Phillips; they are the songs of Sam Phillips, who produced two of the album's tracks ("Saigon" and "How Lucky").

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Robert Christgau	(B-) ^[2]

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote of the album "Prine wrote only five of the ten songs... and even though the covers were of high caliber — notably Roly Salley's "Killing the Blues" and Arthur Gunter's "Baby Let's Play House," a song Elvis Presley did at Sun — Pink Cadillac was a good idea that went slightly awry in the execution. If Prine had had the songs as well as the studio, it would have been among his best."^[1] Music critic Robert Christgau wrote "Prine has never rocked harder. But he's slurring his vocals like some toothless cartoon bluesman emulating an Elvis throwaway — related to the Sun sound, I guess, but perversely."^[2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Prine; except where indicated.

"Chinatown" – 2:24
"Automobile" – 4:23
"Killing The Blues" (Roly Salley) – 4:35
"No Name Girl" (Jack Clement, Billy Lee Riley) – 3:31
"Saigon" (Prine, John Burns) – 3:16
"Cold War (This Cold War With You)" (Floyd Tillman) – 4:11
"Baby Let's Play House" (Arthur Gunter) – 3:30
"Down By The Side Of The Road" – 5:03
"How Lucky" – 3:38
"Ubangi Stomp" (Charles Underwood) – 2:41

Personnel

John Prine – vocals, guitar
Tom (Pickles) Piekarski – bass
Billy Lee Riley – guitar, background vocals
Angie Varias – drums
John Burns – guitar, background vocals
Leo LeBlanc – guitar, steel guitar
Howard Levy – harmonica, keyboards, saxophone
Jerry Phillips – guitar
Helen Duncan – background vocals
Phyllis Duncan – background vocals
Beverly White – background vocals
Helen Bernard – background vocals

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1979	Billboard Pop Albums	152

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Ruhlman, William. "Pink Cadillac > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Christgau, Robert. "Pink Cadillac > Review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved July 9, 2011.

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Studio albums	John Prine (1971) Diamonds in the Rough (1972) Sweet Revenge (1973) Common Sense (1975) Bruised Orange (1978) Pink Cadillac (1979) Storm Windows (1980) Aimless Love (1984) German Afternoons (1986) The Missing Years (1991) A John Prine Christmas (1994) Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings (1995) In Spite of Ourselves (1999) Souvenirs (2000) Fair & Square (2005) Standard Songs for Average People (with Mac Wiseman) (2007)

Live albums	John Prine Live (1988) Live on Tour (1997) In Person & On Stage (2010)

Compilation albums	Prime Prine: The Best of John Prine (1976) Great Days: The John Prine Anthology (1993)

Songs	"Sam Stone" "Paradise" "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" "Angel from Montgomery" "The Great Compromise"

Related articles	Oh Boy Records

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