“In Spite of Ourselves” / John Prine and Iris DeMent

Here at the homestead, we’ve kinda considered this our theme song for about the last six years or so. The complete show is on a VHS tape down in our basement somewhere, but I stumbled across this John Prine YouTube clip this morning, and played it for Amy.

The song is the title track from In Spite of Ourselves,
the 1999 album of duets by John Prine and Iris DeMent, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Connie Smith, Trisha Yearwood, Melba Montgomery, Patty Loveless, Fiona Prine, and Dolores Keane.

In Spite of Ourselves is also available on iTunes.

The movie John Prine mentions in the intro is Daddy and Them (2001), written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Kelly Preston, Andy Griffith, John Prine, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Affleck, and Jim Varney.