RIP John Prine

[petitepedal ★]

[The_Karen_Cooper_Incident]

 

[BuffJim]

He was a great performer. Started listening to him a few years ago. But one of my college lacrosse teammates was a huge fan back in 1982. The Singing Mailman. 

[The_Karen_Cooper_Incident]

This is all so fucking sad.  

[Further]

A part of me just died.

I knew it was coming, but it still hurts, bad.

[UglyBob]

This just sucks...

 

[Further]

It got very damn dusty in here

[Further]

Smoke it buddy

 

[petitepedal ★]

I remember Dear Abby..my introduction to his work

[UglyBob]

44 minutes ago, petitepedal said:

I remember Dear Abby..my introduction to his work

The first time I hear him was when he sang Sam Stone on TV in the very early '70s.

 

[Ralphie ★]

3 hours ago, Further said:

A part of me just died.

I knew it was coming, but it still hurts, bad.

Yeah, he looked like the definition of frail and fragile.

 

[TrentonMakes]

9 hours ago, UglyBob said:

The first time I hear him was when he sang Sam Stone on TV in the very early '70s.

The end of that last verse floors me every time. 

But life had lost its fun, there was nothin' to be done

But trade his house that he bought on the GI Bill

For a flag-draped casket on a local Heroes' Hill

and that song is as relevant now as it was in 1971.

To survive cancer - twice! - only to succumb to this seems tragic. I dare say he'd have written a song about that. 

[Airehead]

This hurts a lot. I have so much history wrapped up in my memories of John Prine. 
When I get to heaven, I’m gonna take that wristwatch off my arm,” he sang. “What are you gonna do with time/After you’ve bought the farm?” 

[Prophet Zacharia]

21 hours ago, Further said:

Smoke it buddy

 

Austin City limits is the best PBS TV that I don’t see enough of.

[Airehead]

20 hours ago, petitepedal said:

I remember Dear Abby..my introduction to his work

My daughter Jackie learned Dear Abby right after she learned Buffet’s cheeseburger in Paradise.   I think she was four. Then she went to day care and did something wrong. Teacher asked her why she did it and she said, “signed bewildered.  I am bewildered.”  Teacher did not think it was funny.  Her dad told that story to John Prine in Virginia when she was a teen. She did not think it was funny then.   I think this might have been at Wolftrap. 

[Further]

43 minutes ago, Airehead said:

This hurts a lot. I have so much history wrapped up in my memories of John Prine.

He had a lot to do with me becoming who I am, for better or worse. 

I now know how my kid felt when Curt Cobain died.