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John Prine died Tuesday at 73
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John Prine died Tuesday at 73
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Well, it seems that I got to the party, quite a lot late. But John Prine truly made some wonderful music that I think will surely stand on its own even as time passes us by.
Here are a couple of songs that show, I think how he could take such a somber subject as death and work it into a good tune. He was a one of a kind kind of guy. Gone but never forgotten, he sure left and impression on me! It don't make no sense that common sense don't make no sense no more. - From Common Sense
Please Don't Bury Me & He Was In Heaven Before He Died
It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice.
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John Prine, who for five decades wrote rich, plain-spoken songs that chronicled the struggles and stories of everyday working people and changed the face of modern American roots music, died Tuesday at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was 73. The cause was complications related to COVID-19, his family confirmed to Rolling Stone.
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@BeatleloverKT wrote:I had read that he had Covid-19. It is relentless among the elderly with underlying conditions to boot. Another talent who will be missed greatly 🙏
Yes 😢
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I grew up near Maywood, Illinois, where John Prine was "the singing mailman" back in the 1960's and 1970's, until his music career paid enough to live on. I never saw him live, sad to say, but my sister and BIL did numerous times. I do remember Terry Hemmert on WXRT in Chicago talking about him and his mailman job, giving some background on John and his music.
He wrote "Angel from Montgomery", which Bonnie Raitt did such a fantastic job with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eO2Ed7cMQM
John also had some memorable duets with Iris Dement, some funny/poignant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8tTwXv4glY
R.I.P. John
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