After seemingly beating cancer, Prine seems optimistic and happy, as the album opener "Glory of True Love" documents. Upbeat and positive, Prine makes you feel warm inside too.
"Taking A Walk" is a great country song that will make you feel as if Prine is right now to you singing in your ear, while "Clay Pigeons" is an equally intimate, honest folk tale. "I Hate It When That Happens To Me" finds Prine delving into soulful blues. And then there are two bonus tracks, the live cut "Other Side of Town" and "Safety Joe", both of them solid, folk story songs that show Prine's storytelling and writing abilities.
Prine shines once again. Fair & Square may find him older and wiser, but no less gifted. It's a great collection of world traveled songs from one of the greatest folk/country songwriters of all time. I'll give it a B+.