He's one of those rare songwriters (like Richard Thompson?) hampered by being too good for too long. Where do you start? Where do you *stop*? I can see why Prine may be an imposing rabbit hole.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 January 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
aren't those from his mid eighties albums? The only ones I don't own.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_82jpa5qq40
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 January 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
enjoying the hell out of this beat-up Sweet Revenge LP right now
gonna check out the duets album next... I have all the 70's LPs now.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link
Happy birthday, dude!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 October 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
hello in there is killing me tonight
― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 19 November 2015 02:18 (eight years ago) link
He's incredible
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 19 November 2015 11:52 (eight years ago) link
New album out April 13!
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
woah, gorgeous song!
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
"Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone)"
― na (NA), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
I don't know how indelible it will turn out to be, but parts of the new album sound really nice.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Thursday, 12 April 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
Summer's End is a new classic, either way.
― bzfgt, Thursday, 12 April 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDpZCZPMRJ8
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 22 July 2018 04:47 (six years ago) link
this is a... remarkable song https://open.spotify.com/track/1k9khuqqY0wHE5IYEyK791?si=DX6tG-sPTeCyNo_wYsVcLg
― niels, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXbEFTv9zr0
― Engles in the Outfield (cryptosicko), Saturday, 29 September 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
I gotta say it's all about Egg & Daughter Nitehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3eMuBJL6C8
― niels, Sunday, 30 September 2018 08:18 (five years ago) link
I really like this album. “Lonesome Friends of Science” is great.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 4 November 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link
Documentary on the way:
https://pitchfork.com/news/new-john-prine-documentary-announced/
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link
classic. just so, so classic
― just sayin, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
just re-listening to him for the first time in a while cuz i'm seeing him this weekend and had forgotten how many amazing songs he has
― just sayin, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link
Definitely a songwriter I think people erroneously take for granted simply for being so good for so long.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
The Tree of Forgiveness was good, sometimes great, way better than average.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 01:34 (five years ago) link
Whenever I pick up a guitar (which becomes more and more rare each day), I always end up finger-picking "In Spite Of Ourselves". Such a classic.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
This new tune is indebted to him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d89fe_p4gX4
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
i hadnt read this jayson greene piece before - https://pitchfork.com/features/overtones/life-death-and-john-prine/
― just sayin, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link
Sorry to hear you’re going through this Alex. As a two time cancer survivor I want you to know that I’m rootin’ for you. I watch Jeopardy twice a day & I look forward to seeing you on there for many years to come. Against all odds you’re the big door prize. Your friend John Prine https://t.co/0I6tAywSPL— John Prine (@JohnPrineMusic) March 7, 2019
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 7 March 2019 04:41 (five years ago) link
My covers version of Prime Prine.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2020 03:45 (four years ago) link
In a bad way
An update on John pic.twitter.com/fPQbv0tLyB— John Prine (@JohnPrineMusic) March 29, 2020
― Alba, Sunday, 29 March 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
ugh
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 March 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
:(
― Sund4r, Sunday, 29 March 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
Oh, God. This is one I've been really scared of. When I think of the musicians who mean the most to me personally, John Prine is right up at the top of the list.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Sunday, 29 March 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
oh no
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 March 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
We were listening to him today before we even knew.
Fucking hell. Gonna play Lake Marie and hope for the best.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 30 March 2020 01:33 (four years ago) link
fuck
― just sayin, Monday, 30 March 2020 01:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJPvc5vvKY4
― lukas, Monday, 30 March 2020 02:36 (four years ago) link
(that's Joan Baez btw)
― lukas, Monday, 30 March 2020 02:42 (four years ago) link
Really hopes he pulls through OK. He's got some seriously underlying health issues. Didn't his wife test positive, too?
― TO BE A JAZZ SINGER YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCAT (Jazzbo), Monday, 30 March 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
Some better news:
I have recovered from Covid-19. We are humbled by the outpouring of love for me and John and our precious family. He is stabile. Please continue to send your amazing Love and prayers. Sing his songs. Stay home and wash hands. John loves you. I love you— Fiona Whelan Prine (@FionaPrine) March 30, 2020
― Alba, Monday, 30 March 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
Yeah, but follow-up: Country music legend John Prine is not improving, his wife Fiona Prine said on Monday. In a previous update on the singer's health, Fiona said Prine is in "stable" condition, which she noted was not the same as improving. Fiona tested positive for the coronavirus last week and has since recovered, but Prine was hospitalized after he began showing symptoms of COVID-19.from https://popculture.com/country-music/2020/03/30/john-prine-wife-fiona-clarifies-not-improving-stable-condition-update/
― dow, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
Well shit.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:29 (four years ago) link
Super sad about this, though obviously it was telegraphed by the last week or so. I'm glad I got to see him at Bonnaroo last year, it was a lovely show. The whole mostly very young crowd just adored him.
R.I.P. to a for real American poet and all that.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:33 (four years ago) link
fuck this shit
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:33 (four years ago) link
FUCK.
This is fucking brutal.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:34 (four years ago) link
goddamn it all to fuck
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:34 (four years ago) link
When I woke up this mornin'Things were lookin' bad
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:36 (four years ago) link
and now it's worse
― fauci wally (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:38 (four years ago) link
Oh God, this is the worst.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
RIP
― badg, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
I have all kinds of things I want to say about him and how much he means to me, but I'm too gutted by this to write anything right now.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:56 (four years ago) link
i dont know if it was this or some other or no other thread but i thought id posted before, maybe not
the first guitar i ever picked up (found it under the stairs in a saturday morning foray through wondrously exciting boxes of radio and camera and other such mysteriously adult equipmentwas, according to herself, given to my mother by some fella called john prime after he'd played at a london venue she worked in before we were born.
john prime was nothing to me, and seeing as i was oh say seven or eight it never really occurred to me to ask then why a fella would give a pretty young barmaid a guitar in any circumstances.
some cousin or other got the guitar at some stage, years before i ever picked one up to learn to actually do anything with it.
the name always stuck with me tho. john prime. never heard of him but thats a good name.
she was gone before i ever really heard of him again, before that kristofferson live version of hello in there got under my skin, before bonnie raitt lamented her cowboy, before i ever had reason to look up some singer dude who played london once in the seventies who mum seemed very impressed by having met.
maybe id have asked her morr about how he came to give her that guitar. maybe not.
we'll never know now.
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:56 (four years ago) link