Posted on 03/29/2020 3:41:10 PM PDT by Borges
Songwriter John Prine is hospitalized and in critical condition with COVID-19 symptoms, according to a statement posted to his Twitter account on Sunday afternoon.
“After a sudden onset of Covid-19 symptoms, John was hospitalized on Thursday (3/26),” the statement reads. “He was intubated Saturday evening, and continues to receive care, but his situation is critical.”
The news follows a video posted to Instagram 12 days ago from Prine’s wife, Fiona, in which she revealed she’d been diagnosed with the Coronavirus. At the time, she said, John also was tested but the results came back “indeterminate.” She noted that John had dealt with several health issues in recent years (including cancer), but that at the time, “so far he’s fine.” Both Fiona and John had quarantined themselves in the wake of Fiona’s diagnosis.
Prine’s most recent concert performances were in Scandinavia in early February. His last Austin appearances were in June 2018, when he played a concert at Bass Concert Hall and taped an episode of “Austin City Limits” at ACL Live.
Did they try the Malaria drug? Too late now.
prayers for john.
I don’t know if I have ever heard of this guy.
OMG, we already lost Joe Diffie to this terrible disease today. I pray for John Prine’s recovery. I wonder if they tried the chloroquine with the antibiotic azithromycin on Joe Diffie.
“There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes.”
He’s in my music mashup station. I listen to him most nights. Hope he pulls through.
It must have been the report on Jan Howard I heard. He is still alive.
There is one song by them I just love. Has a riveting vocal by a girl, is upbeat but I cannot remember its title!!!
He’s not dead yet.
According to Trump at his presser today they are only testing 1100 people right now in NY.
I saw him open for Bonnie Raitt and he came back out at the end of her set and they did a duet of Angel from Montgomery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cagWYTGCY
ALways like this one. Might be having this conversation right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZeFIbYxr0
But he wrote some great music — he captured a whole generation in this one:
Grandpa was a carpenter
He build houses, stores, and banks
Chain smoked Camel cigarettes
And hammered nails in planks
He was level on the level
Shaved even every door
And voted for Eisenhower cause Lincoln won the war.
And then grandma:
Now my grandma was a teacher
Went to school in bowling green
Traded in a milking cow
For a singer sewing machine
She called her husband “mister”
And walked real tall and pride
And used to buy me comic books
After grandpa died.
I saw him play in Bowling Green, Kentucky in the early 1980’s. His song Paradise, about Muhlenberg County, Kentucky was very popular.
He has since had two big bouts of cancer -throat and lung. He barely snuck through both times!
Prayers up and thanks for posting. One of the greats. Also uncle to Shawn Camp, another favorite.
Back in my misspent youth, on a glorious summer night, this young man fell in love with an Alligator Farmer, listening to “Bruised Orange”, on a continuous 8 track tape, in a gold Mark V, in the middle of 10 mile bay.
She had the most glorious blonde hair, and glasses (my fav!), and a smile that could melt your heart.
“Angel from Montgomery” made Bonnie Raitt crossover famous.
Big on the local college radio station.
Wanna good hoot? listen to “In Spite Of Ourselves”.
I played it on the ukulele for my sweetheart on her birthday.
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