R. I. P. John Prine

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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