John Prine, Who Chronicled the Human Condition in Song, Dies at 73
Source: New York Times
John Prine, the raspy-voiced country-folk singer whose ingenious lyrics to songs by turns poignant, angry and comic made him a favorite of Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and others, died Tuesday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. He was 73.
The cause was complications from Covid-19, his family said
Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/arts/music/john-prine-dead.amp.html
Two personal heroes have passed in two days: Al Kaline and John Prine.
2020 sucks!
marble falls
(57,204 posts)gademocrat7
(10,669 posts)Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)EarnestPutz
(2,121 posts)IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)Sad news.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)Bonnie Raitt & John Prine "Angel From Montgomery" | ACL Presents: Americana 18th Annual Honors
treestar
(82,383 posts)I loved hearing the harmony from her.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)He burst out of the Chicago folk music scene, where he played club shows while he worked by day as a mail carrier, in the early 70s. He received his first major break when Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert walked out of a movie screening and stumbled upon Prines set at the local club the Fifth Peg.
Somebody told him to go in the backroom and listen to this kid, Prine recalled on NPR in 2018. I was the kid. And he wrote a full page Singing Mailman Delivers the Message, I think that was the headline
and I never had an empty seat after that.
His greatest stroke of good fortune came after Prines close friend and Chicago folk music contemporary Steve Goodman brought Kris Kristofferson, whose Quiet Knight shows Goodman was opening, to an impromptu late-night performance at another local club. Impressed, Kristofferson later called Prine on stage for three songs at a date at New Yorks Bitter End. Atlantic Records Jerry Wexler offered Prine a contract the next day.
It really was a Cinderella story, truly, Prine told Billboard in 2017.
https://variety.com/2020/music/news/john-prine-dead-dies-singer-coronavirus-1234574129/
Botany
(70,581 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
maddogesq
(1,245 posts)Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
Botany
(70,581 posts)I had read that John had his medical problems of late but this just sucks. I hope that some
rural folk in KY and Appalachia wake up and realize that Trump is a death star.
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)off his Rocky Mountain High (1972) album. This sucks! John Lennon died months after I fell in love with the Beatles and now I am stuck looking to collect John Prine's music knowing I will never get to see him live. RIP, Mr. Prine. May your loved ones and anyone who ever knew you and your heart through music, continue to be blessed for having known you.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)olddad65
(599 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)Did not know of his Grammy WIN!
And he was in a movie with Billy Bob Thornton?!
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Two-time Grammy winner John Prine has been named one of the recipients of the Recording Academys 2020 Lifetime Achievement Awards. The singer-songwriter, whose self-titled 1971 debut LP was enshrined in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015, scored three Grammy nominations last year for his album The Tree of Forgiveness.
Other 2020 Lifetime Achievement honorees are pop-rock group Chicago, singer Roberta Flack, late soul legend Isaac Hayes, punk pioneer Iggy Pop, hip-hop innovators Public Enemy, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member and gospel-rock icon Sister Rosetta Tharpe. A special award presentation and concert celebrating the honorees will take place April 18th at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California, with additional details announced in the coming weeks.
Unfortunately John won't be around to receive that award. I imagine his wife, Fiona, and maybe his sons, will accept the award for him, but since there won't be any award ceremonies this year because of the TRUMP VIRUS who knows?
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)"Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore" is one of my favorites:
#newrostrong
Warpy
(111,339 posts)and got them wearing those silly flag pins instead, but it's still held up really well.
Calling out the false patriotism by lazy slobs was one thing he did best.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)The first time I saw him was at a club called 'Red Creek' in Rochester, NY. It was a small venue, maybe 30 tables at the most, and we had the table right in from of the stage, not more than 10 feet away from him. Best show I've ever seen in my life. I'll never forget that night so many years ago. This is so sad. I cry for myself, not John, because he's in a far finer place, but I'll never get to hear anymore music from that wonderful man. It also reminds me of my own mortality, and that's happening much too often lately. John had a few health problems of late, but this one I blame on Donald Trump. As if I needed another reason to hate that mother-fucker!
cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)lucky you!!
About when was this?
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)in the late 70s, early 80s, right around the time 'Bruised Orange' was released. The people I hung around with back then knew about John and his music, we bought his albums (yes, albums! ) but it was the first time we'd seen him live, and what a treat that was. Looking back it doesn't seem that long ago, but time slips away so quickly. I'm really 'gonna miss that guy!
cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)Thanks!
Rare example of someone off the beaten path receiving his due in life!!
olddad65
(599 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)RIP John. Bless you for everything you gave to us.
cannabis_flower
(3,765 posts)Even though I didn't know the name of the singer at the time
Traildogbob
(8,798 posts)I play almost 20 Of his songs in my set list. All from my heart. I slightly change this one to, "Your (flagged Lapel) won't get you, into heaven anymore". Every GOP asshole wearing one makes me as a veteran sick in my gut. Rest in peace my friend. Thank you for the stories of all our lives. Sam Stone, Souveniers, Paradice, Please don't bury me, and now I'm old.....Hello in there.💔😞
cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)talent. He also came back from adversity.
RIP
Hekate
(90,793 posts)We are grateful you passed through.
Thunderbeast
(3,419 posts)You can gaze out your window
Get mad and get madder
Throw your hands in the air
Sayin' "What does it matter"
But it don't do no good to get angry
So help me I know.
For a heart stained in anger
Grows weak and grows bitter
You become your own prisoner
As you watch yourself sit there
Wrapped up in a trap
Of your very own chain of sorrows.
Bruised Orange
John Prine.
Sweet dreams Johnny.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)Squinch
(51,006 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)GumboYaYa
(5,952 posts)MissMillie
(38,579 posts)You gave us so much. You'll be missed.
SKKY
(11,821 posts)...COVID-19 can just go fuck itself.
path97
(96 posts)Hope he's enjoying a big tall glass of vodka & ginger ale, and smoking a cigarette that's nine miles long.
RIP John
prairierose
(2,145 posts)One of my favorite John Prine songs, along with Mulenburg County, has always been Dear Abby...
abakan
(1,819 posts)Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)John Prine was a cut-up when he wanted to be, and he certainly got passed around -- to the delight of millions.
RIP