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JOHN PRINE (Atlantic). Blue-collar blues from an ex-mailman who may be the closest thing yet to the old Bob Dylan...
...ordinary Chicago mailbox, the kind mailmen use for stashing their extra loads while making rounds. But what were those shuffling and humming sounds coming from within? Curious or startled passers-by probably never found out, but they were made by Mailman John Prine, scrunched up inside the empty box to escape the icy wind, eating his lunch and composing his mournful songs...
Still, Prine is not about to let success coax him away from the physical and emotional neighborhood that has nurtured him and his music. He and his wife continue to live in the same apartment they had when he was a $90-a-week mailman. He has lost his mailman's feet only to develop a case of ulcers. And he is still writing lyrics like Rocky Mountain Time...
...route mornings and afternoons and has the use of the bus for the rest of the day. Her husband, Clifford, lives in a wheelchair and spends his time making fudge on the kitchen stove. He travels through the town on his wheelchair stopping at every house like a mailman, but the woman who brings him a glass of water still has some fudge left over from last week...
...point the camera focused on the shoes of an unidentified mailman as he told of keeping daily logs for the police on mail received by certain residents on his route. Later it zoomed in on the Adam's apple of a Pennsylvania Bell executive as he said, "Under no circumstances are wiretaps performed on the premises of the telephone company," then swallowed hard and conceded that taps were often made on outlying company property like telephone poles...