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(11,849 posts)hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)Make me an Angel
And rather than posting 10+ of these, I suggest people punch it into youtube.
dailytroubadour
(41 posts)tblue37
(65,319 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,919 posts)✌🏼
GoCubsGo
(32,079 posts)PufPuf23
(8,767 posts)More should have been familiar with your music.
Lucky Luciano
(11,253 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)Phoenix61
(17,000 posts)I just saw him mid January.
😢
Initech
(100,063 posts)Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)His wife had posted a message that gave me hope that he might pull through.
He was a songwriter who was admired by other songwriters. Really there was no one else like him. This virus sucks.
mcar
(42,301 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 posts)You made great music.
Alacritous Crier
(3,815 posts)mentalsolstice
(4,460 posts)Seeing him at the Alabama Theater in Birmingham with my then boyfriend (now husband) and our best friend who succumbed to pancreatic cancer two years later. The Cowboy Junkies were the opening act.
😢
sweetloukillbot
(11,006 posts)He joined them for a song, and Margo joined him for Angel From Montgomery. It was the night Springsteen played on Saturday Night Live, I remember Margo joking about missing the performance to be with us...
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)BootinUp
(47,139 posts)RIP.
budkin
(6,699 posts)FUCK
yardwork
(61,588 posts)Deep State Gnostic
(64 posts)pecosbob
(7,536 posts)I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they robbed me
Of my childhood souvenirs
- Steve Goodman
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)liberalla
(9,237 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)RIP
Glorfindel
(9,726 posts)May he rest in peace.
NotASurfer
(2,149 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)yowzayowzayowza
(7,017 posts)RIP.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)ugh
this one really sucks.
Reminds me of the gut punch I felt after the news of Roy Orbison.
Coventina
(27,101 posts)TNNurse
(6,926 posts)srose58089
(214 posts)I will always blame the orange turd for his hand in John Prine's too early death. May you rot in hell you orange turd.
Thanks for the music.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Im gonna smoke a cigarette nine miles long!
Cause this old man is goin to town.
RIP. One of my favorite artists.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)so not surprised, just very very sad.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Another great one from my age group gone.
Owl
(3,641 posts)😞
Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)Rest in peace, John.
deurbano
(2,894 posts)I probably listen to his music more often than any other. I've seen him several times, but a highlight was when he and Joan Baez unexpectedly joined Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson onstage for their concert at the Mountain Winery (Kristofferson had opened for Haggard) to sing "Okie from Muskogee." Four of my Top Ten at one time...
Thank you, John Prine, for all you have meant to my me... and to my family. And deepest condolences to Fiona and their sons.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)RIP John Prine. Thank you for the memories and the joy and the optimism and the generosity of spirit.
doctorzuma
(44 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)The man will continue to live in his art.
Im normally a big stoic kind of guy.
Tonight Im crushed.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)kentuck
(111,078 posts)..and a deep loss.
Angel From Montgomery
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)It wasn't supposed to be like this, people dying unnecessarily.
RIP
denvine
(799 posts)His music was a big part of my life, he will be dearly missed. I bet he will be writing great songs in heaven!
SpaceNeedle
(191 posts)my condolences
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Such terrible news. That makes my heart cry.
R.I.P., John.
peacefreak2.0
(1,023 posts)Look for Steve Goodman. Its been a long time since you guys did a duet.
cate94
(2,810 posts)Chiyo-chichi
(3,578 posts)RIP
mahina
(17,643 posts)This house will miss you terribly, forever. Peace to lovely Fiona.
I, along with many others, hoped he'd pull through. I was listening to "In Spite of Ourselves" earlier today. Had to replay it twice because I love the song.
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)cabot
(724 posts)If I ever get married again, I definitely want it sung at the ceremony.
John Prines passing hurts as much as Townes Van Zandts death. Both were amazing lyricists.
Hekate
(90,643 posts)The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.
RIP, John.
raging moderate
(4,297 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)fuck trump
bubbazero
(296 posts)AllyCat
(16,177 posts)Safe passage.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)cate94
(2,810 posts)He was a great lyricist and performer.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Botany
(70,489 posts)"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"
skip
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)scrabblequeen40
(334 posts)Peace to his family. The last article I read before this news was that he was turning around and getting better. This is horrible news.
Trump has blood on his hands.
Midnight Writer
(21,745 posts)And like Mark Twain, John Prine's songs celebrated both the very stupid and the very noble in us all.
SixString
(1,057 posts)The Mark Twain of American songwriting.
mia
(8,360 posts)murielm99
(30,733 posts)Murderer trump.
creeksneakers2
(7,473 posts)Grandpa was a Carpenter
https://genius.com/John-prine-grandpa-was-a-carpenter-lyrics
RIP.
AdamGG
(1,288 posts)Never listened to much country music, but the quality & feeling of his songs made him one of the few I appreciated.
MontanaMama
(23,307 posts)SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)The last time I knew he was getting slightly better. Another one of my musical heroes moves on. Damn it! John's music filled my life with so many great songs. He features greatly on the sound track of my life. It's going to take some time for this one to stop hurting. My most sincere condolences to Fiona and the boys.
DinahMoeHum
(21,783 posts)One of my all-time favorites of his. . .
#newrostrong
cilla4progress
(24,726 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Back to Muhlenberg would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am
"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"
I hope hes in paradise now
Hobo
(757 posts)You forgive us, well forgive you
Then we both forgive each other
Til we both turn blue
And well go fishin and a whistlin in heaven.
Fish and Whistle - John Prine
Rest Easy
This one hurts
Hobo
NNadir
(33,512 posts)I didn't think he'd make it; it was very high risk, but it is very sad to lose him.
His music lives on.
Thank you John for your life well lived.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)onethatcares
(16,166 posts)is to burn one with John Prine"
God Speed John, and thank you from my heart.
klook
(12,154 posts)As a two-time cancer survivor, he beat the odds by living as long as he did, I suppose. But I would have preferred he stick around another decade or two.
I got to see him live a few years ago. Despite the challenges post-neck surgery, he was still an engaging performer. And of course he was one of the greatest songwriters America has produced. I loved him in Daddy and Them, too.
I first learned of John Prine about 45 years ago, when a friend told me about going to see him sing. She was an early fan and thrilled to have seen him. She told the story of how, after intermission, he explained to the audience what happened to his boutonnière. "Y'all may be wondering what happened to the flower in my lapel. Well, I was standing in a stall in the men's room, and right after I flushed, it just came right off and went into the commode. I just stood there and watched it swirl down and out of sight." He looked down for a second, then back up, and said, "Kinda humbling."
Even though I'd never cared much for country-ish or folkie music, I decided this was a guy I needed to check out.
Mopar151
(9,979 posts)Has hauled him away.