John Prine

[BottenFieldofDreams]

This was a great feature a couple years ago.

[SHOW]

https://bittersoutherner.com/the-big-ol ... john-prine

[BottenFieldofDreams]

[InvincibleCakeEater]

[heyzeus]

I can already confirm: Sam Stone is a devastating song, in all the right ways.

[CardsofSTL]

I can already confirm: Sam Stone is a devastating song, in all the right ways.

Probably one of his saddest. My favorite is Hello in There.

[Leroy]

Sad.

My bluegrass band guitar player is a huge fan, and kinda pushed him on me. I had never really heard of him.

We played Paradise, Grandpa was a Carpenter, Please Don't Bury Me and probably others that I wasn't aware were from him.

Being the 80's person I am, Picture Show is my favorite. But there is a ton of great songs on his list.

[ghostrunner]

I heard of him first through Cowboy Junkies, who worked with him a few times.

This is a well known song, but I prefer this later version to the original. For some reason I've always liked that he didn't mind writing/singing "i am an old woman".

[BottenFieldofDreams]

I heard of him first through Cowboy Junkies, who worked with him a few times.

This is a well known song, but I prefer this later version to the original. For some reason I've always liked that he didn't mind writing/singing "i am an old woman".

It's great writing. He was so gifted at empathizing, and in this case adopting a perspective.

'How the hell does a person go to work in the morning, and come home in the evening with nothing to say?'

I think about that song when I'm being a [expletive] husband in exactly this way, or moaning over how "I could have been a contender," and try to recognize the things given up for my sake.

[Freed Roger]

Sad.

My bluegrass band guitar player is a huge fan, and kinda pushed him on me. I had never really heard of him.

We played Paradise, Grandpa was a Carpenter, Please Don't Bury Me and probably others that I wasn't aware were from him.

Being the 80's person I am, Picture Show is my favorite. But there is a ton of great songs on his list.

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[Freed Roger]

An odd perk to having listened almost exclusively to a narrow classic rock genre until age 38 or so, music like John Prine still comes across as brand new discovery. I probably started hearing him on weekends 88.1 KDHX public music radio. I hadn't caught this sweet little gem until a few months ago on 88.1
The guy was a great storyteller.