Monday morning, Toni Lindgren, without her singing partner Elle Cordova (formerly Reina Del Cid), singing a typically great John Prine song. Always wonderful guitar playing, and she really nails the John Prine spirit.
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What the late John Prine figgered he’d do when he got to heaven. And he probably is.
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Monday morning, one of my favorite singer/songwriters, John Prine, with a lovely little song. Not sure who the accompanying singer is, but one of the YouTube comment writers thinks it’s Mindy Smith.
This one is particularly nice with headphones.
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I didn’t know who Steve Poltz was, but he sure is one great story teller. A really funny shaggy dog story about the wonderful musician John Prine. Sorry for being late today!
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One of the great songs that John Prine wrote in the last part of his career. Like the lyrics of Paul Simon, Prine’s lyrics tells you just enough about the story to intrigue you, but open enough to let you complete it with your own experience.
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With a song title like that, you know the rest of the song just has to be great.
John Prine, with accompaniment by Nanci Griffith who unfortunately died this month.
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I recently posted John Prine singing his song “Summer’s End.” I ran across this cover done by Brandi Carlile who has performed with Prine in the past, and I’ve been playing it non-stop all week, so I thought I’d share it with you. The purity of her voice makes a nice contrast to John Prine’s growl.
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John Prine could write some of the funniest songs ever, but also some of the most heart-breaking.
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Monday morning, John Prine, because any day that starts off with John Prine is immediately improved
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Monday morning, John Prine has a staring contest with a bowl of oatmeal and the oatmeal wins…
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Reina Del Cid and Toni Lindgren singing a great John Prine song in a shitty parking lot somewhere in Minnesota.
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John Prine died Tuesday from coronavirus at age 73.
He was a heck of a songwriter. Prolific, playful, and heartbreaking.
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My favorite song from the witty and heartfelt John Prine.
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Sometime in the early 1970s, on a very cold winter day, I was walking along Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan and saw a stash of record albums in a trash can. Never one to miss an opportunity for free, I grabbed them even though I had never heard of any of the musicians. One of them appeared to be an album of country-western tunes, and though NYC had recently gotten its first country-western radio station, WHN, back then that wasn’t the kind of music I usually listened to.
However, I put John Prine’s Diamonds in the Rough album on the turntable, and it became one of my favorites of the year and thereafter. There were so many great songs on it, including Take the Star Out of the Window, which to the best of my knowledge they never dared play on WHN. In a time of polarized madness over the Vietnam War, though, this song seemed to be a few minutes of sanity and reality.
