“All the Best” by John Prine

"All the Best" is John Prine alone at the writing desk, words and music, on The Missing Years, his 1991 album for Oh Boy Records and his first studio record since German Afternoons in 1986. It was taken as his comeback, and The Missing Years went on to win the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

When manager Al Bunetta and Dan Einstein were kicking around producers for that record, Howie Epstein's name came up: the bass player in Tom Petty's Heartbreakers and a longtime Prine fan. Bunetta called him, and as Prine recalled it, Epstein was in the office before the phone was even back on the hook. On this track, Joe Romersa handled the recording and Ed Seay mixed it.

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