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John Prine "Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings was started in November 1992. Howie Epstein and I spent a couple of weeks messin' around in the studio getting back to the 'recording mode...' It was an exciting time. No rules to follow. Just write the album and play it as we rolled along. The working title of the album was 'As You Like It' taken, of course, from Billy Shakespeare's play... I wrote 'I Ain't Hurtin' Nobody' - a song about a fellow, Lucky LaRue, who was walking down the street thinking about his sweetheart. Not making the world a better place, but certainly not screwin' it up. 'He ain't hurtin' nobody, He ain't hurtin' no one.' When I reached the bridge of the song, I looked out my window at Los Angeles at about 5:30 a.m. and figured about six million seven hundred thousand and thirty three lights were on. That's when I knew we were on our way to a new album."