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Date: April 07, 2020 at 20:30:36
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: RIP John Prine/Hello In There |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVhA01J0Zsg |
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Sweet OldHomeBoy... ;( Now his heart graces Heaven...
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Date: April 07, 2020 at 20:37:09
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: John Prine & Bonnie Raitt/Angel From Montgomery |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaHNUYAKDn4 |
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Date: April 07, 2020 at 20:41:30
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: John Prine Obituary by NPR |
URL: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/07/750894794/john-prine-obituary |
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"John Prine, a wry and perceptive writer whose songs
often resembled vivid short stories, died Tuesday in
Nashville from complications related to COVID-19. His
death was confirmed by his publicist, on behalf of
his family. He was 73 years old.
Prine was hospitalized last week after falling ill
and put on a ventilator Saturday night, according to
a statement from his family.
Even as a young man, Prine — who famously worked as a
mailman before turning to music full-time — wrote
evocative songs that belied his age. With a
conversational vocal approach, he quickly developed a
reputation as a performer who empathized with his
characters. His beloved 1971 self-titled debut
features the aching "Hello In There," written from
the perspective of a lonely elderly man who simply
wants to be noticed, and the equally bittersweet
"Angel From Montgomery." The latter song is narrated
by a middle-aged woman with deep regrets over the way
her life turned out, married to a man who's merely
"another child that's grown old."
Bestowing dignity on the overlooked and marginalized
was a common theme throughout Prine's career; he
became known for detailed vignettes about ordinary
people that illustrated larger truths about society.
One of his signature songs, "Sam Stone," is an
empathetic tale of a decorated veteran who overdoses
because he has trouble readjusting to real life after
the war. (Prine has said he based the protagonist
around friends who were Vietnam War veterans, and
also soldiers he encountered during his own two-year
stint as an Army mechanic.)
Like "Sam Stone," many of Prine's songs also had an
uncanny ability to address (if not predict) the
societal and political zeitgeist. The understated
1984 song "Unwed Fathers" illustrates pernicious
double standards pertaining to gender: The titular
group "can't be bothered / They run like water,
through a mountain stream," while the young women
they impregnate are shamed and face consequences.
Recorded for John Prine, "Your Flag Decal Won't Get
You Into Heaven Anymore" criticizes people who use
piety and patriotism as a cover for supporting an
unjust war — a theme he'd revisit on 2005's "Some
Humans Ain't Human," which pulls no punches slamming
both hypocritical people and the Iraq War started by
George W. Bush.
But like fellow songwriting iconoclast Shel
Silverstein, Prine also cloaked his pointed
commentary within whimsical wordplay. "Some Humans
Ain't Human" claims that inside the heart of these
turncoats is "a few frozen pizzas, some ice cubes
with hair and a broken Popsicle," while "Dear Abby"
has a lilting, rollicking rhythm to its verses, as it
gently chides advice-column complainers to count
their blessings. "Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)"
uses both absurdity (an altar boy struck by a train)
and the mundane (a bench makeout) to encourage people
to stay positive and have gratitude.
And "Christmas In Prison" boasts one of his best
lyrics — "She reminds me of a chess game with someone
I admire" — while embodying his quiet irreverence.
"It's about a person being somewhere like a prison,
in a situation they don't want to be in, and wishing
they were somewhere else," he wrote in the liner
notes to 1993's Great Days: The John Prine Anthology,
adding that "I used all the imagery as if it were an
actual prison. ... And being a sentimental guy, I put
it at Christmas."
Prine was born on October 10, 1946, to parents with
strong family ties to Paradise, Kentucky, a place
that later served as the backdrop to "Paradise," his
cautionary tale about a coal country town destroyed
and discarded by corporate interests.
Raised in Maywood, a suburb of Chicago,, the young
Prine devoured 45s from Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash and
Little Richard, and soaked up the country music his
father loved, such as Hank Williams Sr., Ernest Tubb
and Roy Acuff. More crucially, Prine learned
rudimentary guitar skills from his oldest brother,
Dave, a folk fan who memorably gifted him a Carter
Family LP. "I learned all those songs," he told NPR's
Terry Gross in 2018. "And not too long after that, I
started writing when I was 14. And my melodies always
came out like old-timey country stuff." Around this
time, Prine also started to learn finger-picking by
playing songs by Elizabeth Cotten and Mississippi
John Hurt, he added: "I'd sit in the closet in the
dark in case I ever went blind, to see if I could
play."
...the rest at link...
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Date: April 08, 2020 at 01:51:53
From: ShakyD, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: John Prine - When I Get To Heaven (Lyric Video) - YouTube |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0EiV423j0M |
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John's dad told him
"Buddy when you're dead, you're a dead pecker-head." LOL.
Never heard of him before now.
He was good. Wish I had discovered him sooner.
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Date: April 08, 2020 at 09:21:32
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: John Prine - When I Get To Heaven (Lyric Video) - YouTube |
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Wow, thanks for posting this one, ShakyD, I hadn't
known of it! ;-> Grew up in the same town as him, he
was our mailman when I was a kid; then during teens/20s
(70s) my musician friends/housemates and I hung out &
jammed w/his little brother Billy a lot, would go
downtown to blues clubs & listen to/support John...
No one like him, and it's lovely knowing someone's
discovering him for the first time...probably quite a
few... ;->
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Date: April 08, 2020 at 13:24:56
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: John Prine Listening Primer |
URL: https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/john-prine-listening-primer |
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Nice overview from bandcamp for those unfamiliar...and
for those catching up w/many tunes they've missed over
the years... ;->
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