R. I. P. John Prine

Arghus · 08-04-2020 4:03am #1

Sad stuff, it didn't look good when news came out he'd caught the virus.

Fuck this fucking horrible yoke of a godawful thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXDCUoC2QKQ

Large bottle small glass · 08-04-2020 7:19am

Arghus wrote: »

Sad stuff, it didn't look good when news came out he'd caught the virus.

Fuck this fucking horrible yoke of a godawful thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXDCUoC2QKQ

https://youtu.be/csAp1KeueUU

Nathalie Merchant and Michael Stripe live performance of "Hello in there"; which we can only do remotely now

Sleeper12 · 08-04-2020 8:07am

Only discovered his music in the last year & fell instantly in love with his witty lyrics.

Very sad

R.I.P.

topper75 · 08-04-2020 9:46am

Let his ashes float down the Green River
Let his soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
He'll be half way to heaven with p(P?)aradise waiting
Five miles away from whereever he is

Goodbye and thanks John.

NIMAN · 08-04-2020 9:49am

Sad loss .... seen him for the 1st time live a couple of years back in Derry.

Fantastic talent... RIP

08-04-2020 9:51am

RIP John Prine, the old man upstairs has no sense of humour at all. If there was a more droll singer-songwriter, I haven't heard of him. His wry take on life will never be equaled.

Technique · 08-04-2020 9:56am

NIMAN wrote: »

Sad loss .... seen him for the 1st time live a couple of years back in Derry.

Fantastic talent... RIP

His wife's from Donegal (Ardara) so he probably spent a bit of time here.

fineso.mom · 08-04-2020 9:56am

Loved his voice, his lyrics, his melodies..so sad to hear that. So many of his lyrics would just randomly come in to my head over the years. He had a wonderful way with words.

sligojoek · 08-04-2020 9:59am

RIP John.

Thanks for the songs.

There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes.

Great line.

Doctor Jimbob · 08-04-2020 10:01am

This one hits close to home for me, I grew up listening to John as my dad is a big fan. Didn't really appreciate him until I got a bit older but find myself regularly going back to his music now. He had an incomparable way with words. Capable of going from poignant and thought provoking to absurd in his lyrics, sometimes several times in one song. I'm glad I was lucky enough to see him live a few years ago. RIP.

sydthebeat · 08-04-2020 10:04am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFvenjll1Bk

My dad used to sing this a lot.....

RIP John

Bobblehats · 08-04-2020 10:37am

Pretty good in his prine.

JohnnyFlash · 08-04-2020 10:43am

Angel From Montgomery is a cracker of a tune.

RIP to the fella.

Beechwoodspark · 08-04-2020 11:02am

Recently got into him and my god the hype is real -he was up there with the best of them in terms of American singer songwriters.

Had a distinctive voice too which often lent itself to the lyrics.

RIP

08-04-2020 12:51pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Recently got into him and my god the hype is real -he was up there with the best of them in terms of American singer songwriters.

Had a distinctive voice too which often lent itself to the lyrics.

RIP

Same here, just recently got into his music, the beauty of Spotify!
Beautiful lyricist and unique voice! R.I.P.

earlytobed · 08-04-2020 2:20pm

RIP John, true gent and brilliant witty songwriter

Sleeper12 · 08-04-2020 4:58pm

zorro2566 wrote:

Same here, just recently got into his music, the beauty of Spotify! Beautiful lyricist and unique voice! R.I.P.

Sitting in my garden last summer sipping ice cold beer and listening to my Bob Dylan collection. Bob Dylan playlist comes to an end & Spotify throws up "In Spite Of Ourselves". I nearly choked on the beer I laughed so hard. This was my introduction to John Prine. It was Love at first sight.

I Am Nobody · 08-04-2020 5:15pm

Loved Prine's genius. One of my favourites is Dear Abby. A brilliant and funny song. May he rest in peace.

bnt · 08-04-2020 5:28pm

John also had some ideas about what should happen to him now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEhqzOeJnto

Woke up this morning
Put on my slippers
Walked in the kitchen and died
And oh what a feeling!
When my soul
Went thru the ceiling
And on up into heaven I did ride

When I got there they did say
John, it happened this way
You slipped upon the floor
And hit your head
And all the angels say
Just before you passed away
These were the very last words
That you said:

Please don't bury me
Down in that cold cold ground
No, I'd druther have 'em' cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size

Give my stomach to Milwaukee
If they run out of beer
Put my socks in a cedar box
Just get "em" out of here
Venus de Milo can have my arms
Look out! I've got your nose
Sell my heart to the junkman
And give my love to Rose

Give my feet to the footloose
Careless, fancy free
Give my knees to the needy
Don't pull that stuff on me
Hand me down my walking cane
It's a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye.

dixiefly · 09-04-2020 10:42pm

Devastating loss.

Surely, surely some people close to him and Fiona should have had a strong word and isolated them. John was one of the people I was really concerned for when this kicked off.

sligojoek · 09-04-2020 11:47pm

dixiefly wrote: »

Devastating loss.

Surely, surely some people close to him and Fiona should have had a strong word and isolated them. John was one of the people I was really concerned for when this kicked off.

From what I read, Fiona had it first and got over it and then John got it.

According to John Creedon this evening JP had got over neck cancer, then lung cancer and had half a lung removed recently. I'd say the fight was gone out of him by this stage.

One of life's good guys by all accounts. I know two lads from Nenagh who went to see him whenever they could. Whenever they were in the audience John always made sure to send a message out to them to come backstage for a chat after the show.

mcdaids69 · 09-04-2020 11:49pm

Technique wrote: »

His wife's from Donegal (Ardara) so he probably spent a bit of time here.

he visited every year to tipperary to his buddy philip donnelly who sadly passed last year..i used to work in bar with folk clubs in a place called mc daids..met philip a few times.john played their in 2003 and 2005..theirs some great stuff out their from philip as well.ya john prine had loads of stuff recently i could see him coming back big time ..all the steven colbert stuff made him bigger.

darragh o meara · 09-04-2020 11:57pm

mcdaids69 wrote: »

he visited every year to tipperary to his buddy philip donnelly who sadly passed last year..i used to work in bar with folk clubs in a place called mc daids..met philip a few times.john played their in 2003 and 2005..theirs some great stuff out their from philip as well.ya john prine had loads of stuff recently i could see him coming back big time ..all the steven colbert stuff made him bigger.

I knew Philip myself and he lived his later years in my town. I remember meeting him in a local bar with a group of people, John Prine being one of them and Nancy Griffith being the other. At the time, I didnt recognise Prine as my image of him was of a much younger man but I did recognise Nancy. I remember meeting him afterwards and asking him if that was Nancys husband to which he replied, That was John Prine from Illinois you buffoon!! I was raging that I never got to properly say hello. Philip himself passed away just before Christmas. I guess they're having a great old session up in the great gig in the sky.

sligojoek · 10-04-2020 12:14am

Forgot to say. John Creedon told a story of when the doctor told Prine that the lung operation was risky and if he were to survive he probably wouldn't be able to sing again. Prine replied, "I never could sing anyway".

mcdaids69 · 10-04-2020 12:29am

philip was some charecter.hed sit for hours talking about his carrer gloating almost.everly brothers mention x100 ,donavan..LOL...i was thinking other night he passed quick,what was story their,i knew about his heart,he came across as very down in dumps,

darragh o meara · 10-04-2020 1:09am

mcdaids69 wrote: »

philip was some charecter.hed sit for hours talking about his carrer gloating almost.everly brothers mention x100 ,donavan..LOL...i was thinking other night he passed quick,what was story their,i knew about his heart,he came across as very down in dumps,

I believe he had been sick for a while but he kept that side of his life private. He was a character alright, I remember the first time I met him after a gig and going away thinking Jaysus this lad is full of ****e.. I played with this star, wrote with this guy, met this fella.. I later found out most if not all of it was 100% true. He was always a bit mellow, never thought of him as down in the dumps though.

He had a gig about 10yrs ago after he had been very sick and it featured a load of top singers joining him, He was telling a few lads in the bar one night that Donovan was gonna come up and jam with him, (the equivalent of the scene in the Commitments movie where Lester Piggot was lined up to jam with the band) True enough on the night, I was in the other part of the bar dealing with something and there he was Donovan, he went on to do a set with Philip and stayed for on afterwards. He came up to me at one stage to ask me something and was surprised that I knew who he was..

It always annoyed me that I didn't recognise John Prine that night though. Suppose he was the last person you would expect to see in your local.

JP Liz V1 · 10-04-2020 1:12am

RIP

Suckit · 10-04-2020 1:25am

R.I.P.
I only heard tonight, and his tour dates still up on songkick

Very sad
Great lyricist (as mentioned)

mcdaids69 · 10-04-2020 1:53am

darragh o meara wrote: »

I believe he had been sick for a while but he kept that side of his life private. He was a character alright, I remember the first time I met him after a gig and going away thinking Jaysus this lad is full of ****e.. I played with this star, wrote with this guy, met this fella.. I later found out most if not all of it was 100% true. He was always a bit mellow, never thought of him as down in the dumps though.

He had a gig about 10yrs ago after he had been very sick and it featured a load of top singers joining him, He was telling a few lads in the bar one night that Donovan was gonna come up and jam with him, (the equivalent of the scene in the Commitments movie where Lester Piggot was lined up to jam with the band) True enough on the night, I was in the other part of the bar dealing with something and there he was Donovan, he went on to do a set with Philip and stayed for on afterwards. He came up to me at one stage to ask me something and was surprised that I knew who he was..

It always annoyed me that I didn't recognise John Prine that night though. Suppose he was the last person you would expect to see in your local.

i had a few of those in my bar too.philip made his live in midleton cd in our place :pac: .donavan is living outside cork for years .i was taking bags of bottles to get recycled and got cut on my knee...had promised philip id turn up and give him a hand with gear.sure as you know it i needed 10 stichs went to hospital came back,was wozzy and needing sleep cos of blood loss LOL...but i turned up got pissed after and was making old el paso stuff at 4am ...i have a permanent scar on my knee from one of days meeting philip :pac::D:D:D

humberklog · 10-04-2020 3:12am

darragh o meara wrote: »

He had a gig about 10yrs ago after he had been very sick and it featured a load of top singers joining him, He was telling a few lads in the bar one night that Donovan was gonna come up and jam with him, (the equivalent of the scene in the Commitments movie where Lester Piggot was lined up to jam with the band

Lester Piggot? Now that'd be a show and half. Hopefully he'd bring his half brother Wilson Picket with him too.

Saw Prine a couple of year ago in The Bord Gais, great show.

darragh o meara · 10-04-2020 3:26am

humberklog wrote: »

Lester Piggot? Now that'd be a show and half. Hopefully he'd bring his half brother Wilson Picket with him too.

My bad.. Late night brain

opus · 10-04-2020 10:01am

Friend of mine (a musician himself) put it far more eloquently than I ever could in an email. We have definitely lost one of the good guys

Very sad, but I can’t help but think he would have had a different/unique angle on it, he beat cancer twice, someone who could make you see the humour in life’s most difficult situations in a way that applied just to you. RIP

topper75 · 10-04-2020 10:20am

sligojoek wrote: »

Forgot to say. John Creedon told a story of when the doctor told Prine that the lung operation was risky and if he were to survive he probably wouldn't be able to sing again. Prine replied, "I never could sing anyway".

That'd be Prine alright! Any man trying to make sense of life through art has to address death and if he laughs at it and his own condition he wins my respect.

Sure lookit, as the GAA lads say, he smoked heavy for 3 decades or more. He started out as an Illinois mailman and ended up with a net worth of $6m and a legacy of dozens of albums of high-grade material that will be listened to people the world over long after he is gone.

I think he did alright all told.

Large bottle small glass · 12-02-2021 11:35am

Having listened to a lot of John Prine in the last 8 or 9 months I took his recommendation for Blaze Foley (Foley is Lucinda William's Drunken Angel) on board. YouTube/Spotify suggested a few more like Townes Van Zandt, Mary Gauthier, Frankie Lee etc

https://open.spotify.com/track/3ajCj2432Q1WSv5QC6C31F?si=43d0999d400545b0

https://open.spotify.com/track/4Q1dZkCPfk53dVomwo5Pax?si=7e0a7f53fe4647fd

https://open.spotify.com/track/5fahDvkj2KZ0rl3MwHS2Uf?si=0322e666a05a451a

https://open.spotify.com/track/5fahDvkj2KZ0rl3MwHS2Uf?si=42633ba9fb064498

https://open.spotify.com/track/6684GUHy1jpyhJVzpz5OFr?si=561ea405096246cc

cj maxx · 12-02-2021 11:59am

I'd never heard of John Prine but I'll have a listen to that later on.

EmmetSpiceland · 12-02-2021 12:06pm

Always enjoy listening to ‘Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings’.

simongurnick · 12-02-2021 1:38pm

I think the track is called summer's end. Could make you cry and smile at the same time. Amazing.

Tokyo · 12-02-2021 1:40pm

Was listening to 'Angel from Montgomery' only a few days ago. RIP.

Large bottle small glass · 12-02-2021 2:17pm

mike_ie wrote: »

Was listening to 'Angel from Montgomery' only a few days ago. RIP.

Great version.

Something about the composing artist singing their own song with a "fan".

Not unlike Etheridge here with Springsteen

mcdaids69 · 13-02-2021 8:11pm

philip and john had huge friends in nashville etc..everly brothers,johnny cash,emily lou harris,bonnie ratt the list goes on...sure philp alone played with donavan,nancy griffth,towns van zandt every irish folk club musician as well..start with philip donnelly if chasing john prines music youll open up a whole different world to john prines road of music as they are both connected even to end where john would visit once a year to ireland and do 4 dates around country so they could make beer money from selling CDs...LOL

ctrl-alt-delete · 03-09-2022 8:55pm

Very late to the party, and in turn the parting.

I only discovered him a couple of months ago, only found out a short while later that he had passed.

You don't get many who can use words the way he did, and fewer that can put them to music so well.

Summer's End is a masterpiece.

R.I.P.

R. I. P. John Prine

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