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Remembering John Prine
- Thread starter Joe Riley
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Axel Slingerland
Wordy Blues Rocker
I always liked these two... Whenever people would ask my Blues Rock band to play song Country songs, these were what we played. Along with some Commander Cody and His Lost Plane Airmen.
Nancy Hart
Well-known member
Same Thing Happened to Me
Nancy Hart
Well-known member
In Spite of Ourselves 
John Prine: American as Plain Speech (April 2020)
I’m very sad by the passing of John Prine, a wordsmith who managed the hardest of all lyricist obligations: to be plain-spoken, colloquial, and unafraid. His best songs have an authentic, unaffected quality, that of someone talking about some odd thing that happened to them, recent or in the past, setting a scene, establishing an attitude and a personality at the beginning of the story, giving you an idea of where he was going with it all, an idea of what the moral of the tale would be, but then he concludes or at least stops his story at some point you didn’t expect. He could be colloquial without being unclear, idiomatic without resorting to cracker barrel cliches; this was someone you knew perhaps not intimately, but whom you knew well enough to have an ongoing conversation about the weather, sports, women, bad jobs, celebration and tribulation and come away with a feeling that you had just tapped into a larger Life Force. This writer wasn’t, though, a preacher or a saint or an expert, or at least not an expert on anything beyond his experiences and the blessings or consequences of them. He didn’t “drop knowledge”, he didn’t advise, he didn’t moralize. He just told you what he knew and admitted what he didn’t know and leave you a strong inclination to lean closer and observe longer and perhaps glean some incidental insight as to how to remain teachable after you’ve learned all the answers. That was a huge part of my attraction to his music and lyrics, their complete lack of pretension." READ MORE