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ALBliberal

(2,340 posts) Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:17 AM Mar 2020

Speed of the Sound of Loneliness John Prine/Nancy Griffith

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Speed of the Sound of Loneliness John Prine/Nancy Griffith (Original Post) ALBliberal Mar 2020 OP

John Prine is a national treasure. Other people do his songs, usually very well, but.... RussellCattle Mar 2020 #1

+1 KT2000 Mar 2020 #2

to post a YouTube video, you do not have to use the link button, all you have to do is Celerity Mar 2020 #3

OMG, for once it wasn't me being the DU URL monitor lol ... mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #5

I hit peak 'link button misuse and/or non trimmed link posts about a month ago' Celerity Mar 2020 #7

Did I do something wrong? ALBliberal Mar 2020 #6

no, not really, I was just showing how to do a clean post of a YT video Celerity Mar 2020 #8

Only trying to learn.... ALBliberal Mar 2020 #9

because you sued the link button and did not trim it, it has this Celerity Mar 2020 #10

Awesome ... and I like Nanci Griffith too ... nt mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #4

Aw, thanks for posting this. tanyev Mar 2020 #11

Sam Stone was the first Prine song I ever heard pecosbob Mar 2020 #12

RussellCattle

(1,535 posts)

1. John Prine is a national treasure. Other people do his songs, usually very well, but....

Reply to ALBliberal (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:24 AM

Mar 2020

....when he sings one of his own tunes he really owns it. No less a songwriter than Bob Dylan said he was the best songwriter around.

KT2000

(20,577 posts)

2. +1

Reply to RussellCattle (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:27 AM

Mar 2020

Celerity

(43,349 posts)

3. to post a YouTube video, you do not have to use the link button, all you have to do is

Reply to ALBliberal (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:31 AM

Mar 2020

that will yield this

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

5. OMG, for once it wasn't me being the DU URL monitor lol ...

Reply to Celerity (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:34 AM

Mar 2020

YAY!

Celerity

(43,349 posts)

7. I hit peak 'link button misuse and/or non trimmed link posts about a month ago'

Reply to mr_lebowski (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:41 AM

Mar 2020

ALBliberal

(2,340 posts)

6. Did I do something wrong?

Reply to Celerity (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:39 AM

Mar 2020

Celerity

(43,349 posts)

8. no, not really, I was just showing how to do a clean post of a YT video

Reply to ALBliberal (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:42 AM

Mar 2020

ALBliberal

(2,340 posts)

9. Only trying to learn....

Reply to Celerity (Reply #8)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:45 AM

Mar 2020

Is mine not a clean post?

Celerity

(43,349 posts)

10. because you sued the link button and did not trim it, it has this

Reply to ALBliberal (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:50 AM

Mar 2020

this part

when it will look like this if you follow the steps I showed

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

4. Awesome ... and I like Nanci Griffith too ... nt

Reply to ALBliberal (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:32 AM

Mar 2020

tanyev

(42,553 posts)

11. Aw, thanks for posting this.

Reply to ALBliberal (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 11:28 AM

Mar 2020

I'm pretty sure it was Nanci's cover of Speed of the Sound of Loneliness that introduced me to John Prine.

pecosbob

(7,538 posts)

12. Sam Stone was the first Prine song I ever heard

Reply to ALBliberal (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 11:53 AM

Mar 2020

and then Paradise. My brain is still swimming in his lyrics after more than fifty years.

If any have not seen the Thornton picture Daddy and Them, watch it. Prine plays a great supporting role and does a duet with Iris Dement for the movie's theme.

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