Posted on 04/08/2020 8:48:59 AM PDT by Dacula
Went to a lot of John Prine concerts in the 1970s and wore out an album or two.
Sad day.
This one hits a little harder and closer to home.
Don’t forget 8-Tracks. You would have to wiggle them to get them work right sometimes.
Went to a lot of John Prine concerts in the 1970s and wore out an album or two.
Sad day.
That's why I don't know of him; I switched over from music radio to talk radio in about 1970 and never looked back. If I didn't hear it in a bar or club when I was bartending I probably don't know it.
I loves my 50s-60s oldies, though!
Prine was kind of niche. Not really main stream but very popular with folk music lovers. Prine was a song writer foremost.
PLMerite - Thank you for sharing those pictures.
Like I said before. John’s death hits real close to home.
The world’s biggest shovel:
“Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery, make me a poster of an old rodeo....”
What’s your point?
Prine references that exact piece of equipment in one of his most famous songs, “Paradise”
One of his songs that I now relate to after the death of my brother, USMC, Alpha 1/1, Hue City, Tet, 68, from cancer last August:
Where are the boot straps
To lift myself up?
Where is the well
Where I once filled my cup?
Where does this sorrow
All turn into joy?
And where oh where is the sleepy eyed boy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-RPtAm1IeI
When I first saw that I got him confused with Actor Andrew Prine.
I always thought of him in terms of the similar descriptor I had for Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Shel Silverstein: “A musical poet, but not necessarily a poetic musician.”
Thank you for sharing.
My apologies. I am suffering cranial-rectal- inversion right this moment.
I am sorry for your loss.
This is one reason to have Amazon’s Alexa... and yeah I know it’s like paying to have a spy in your home. But it’s so easy to ask Alexa to play the song without having all the hassle involved...
Thanks to all linkers/posters One link leads to another.. I had a college prof who loved John Prine. Sad to say...I did not know any of his work. Condolences to family and friends of John Prine. R.I.P., sir. love.
Take a few hours out of your life and just understand what John Prine meant and sung about. LIFE
You will only be disappointed by the fact that he passed away last night and we will never get to hear his new lyrical tunes and songs again.
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