RIP John Prine

[Dhelihiker]

Saw that yesterday. And wanted to like it. But couldn't make it further than a minute.

he's reading the music! No self-respecting musician plays a song he doesn't know. lame to 100th power

[Tele 'til You're Smelly]

There was a radio DJ in New Haven Ct in the 70s and early 80s, "Stoneman," who would sign off his show each night on WPLR with the refrain of "Illegal Smile"- made me a fan before I knew who John Prine was:

And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone
No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6LcAu1Yu2g

[ShoNuff]

The "Sequestered Songwriters" Facebook page just did a live collaborative tribute to Prine. Pretty cool idea, and a couple nugs in there.

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[hutash]

Philistine.

...for not liking country?

That's rich

[dookeyXXX]

How to make a "Handsome Johnny"...

https://www.insidehook.com/article/b...e-cocktail/amp

[TBS]

^^^
"Before you make your own Handsome Johnny, make sure you have the right vodka. Prine said he used red label Smirnoff vodka, not blue label. “If you get too good of vodka, it kills the bubbles,” Prine cautioned.

The brand of ginger ale doesn’t matter, but it should be a diet version. Not only is normal ginger ale too sweet, according to Prine, but “you don’t want to get diabetes from drinking.”

[Rideski]

I watched/listened to most of the songs in this thread, but can't say I am impressed. Too country for my taste, but I have a particular dislike for most country, so there is that.


...and no, nothing like Dylan.

Shitty to dis someone in a dead thread.

[bodywhomper]

https://youtu.be/SEyPXA0c7E4

[rideit]

Is it dry in here?

Amazing tribute from Elvis Costello.

https://www.elviscostello.com/#!/news/299071

[rideit]

he's reading the music! No self-respecting musician plays a song he doesn't know. lame to 100th power

I disagree...I have seen amazing musicians absolutely kill with songs they have never played before, by ear or otherwise.

[hutash]

Shitty to dis someone in a dead thread.

Saying Im not impressed is dissing him??? If I said he wrote shitty music I would agree, but I didn't.

[uglymoney]

Saying Im not impressed is dissing him??? If I said he wrote shitty music I would agree, but I didn't.

This. I didn't find your comment disrespectful at all. Music is subjective. People get really provincial about music they love.

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[iceman]

He's not required to like him of course but I'd have to agree with Rideski that a thread about someone dying isn't the best place to air that opinion. Poor form in my view.

If it was Trump I'd have a different take.

[hutash]

Okay, please direct me to the other John Prine thread.

Oh! there isn't one.

[iceman]

https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...New-John-Prine

funny place for it

[MakersTeleMark]

Posting on any thread, like for example a fly fishing thread, or a K2 thread, any thread where folks come to share their thoughts on things they like, just to say you don't like x,y,z, is just hater being hater thing. It says way more about the poster than any merit their opinion may have and just lost.

And, I've never heard Prine called country before.

Carry on.

[Mr. Mike]

John Prine wake online starting right now at WPLN.org (probably among others).

[old goat]

I disagree...I have seen amazing musicians absolutely kill with songs they have never played before, by ear or otherwise.

As the musicians I like get older more and more of them have lyrics sheets, for their own songs.

[uglymoney]

Margo Price with a piece discussing covids harsh impact on her family, John Prine, and lying politicians. She's such a gem.

https://www.vogue.com/article/margo-...ne-coronavirus

[porkroll]

Fundraising tribute show airing tonight at 730 eastern time on John’s YouTube and Facebook page.


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[dookeyXXX]

John Prine controversy at CMA

https://pitchfork.com/news/jason-isb...ohn-prine/amp/

[Dantheman]

Hah!

Sturgill Simpson joined Isbell in calling out the show for not mentioning Prine. “Don’t get it twisted…wouldn’t be caught dead at this tacky ass glitter and botox cake & cock pony show even if my chair had a morphine drip,” Simpson wrote, in a post viewed by Pitchfork that has since been deleted. “I just wanted to see if they would say his name but nope.”

[glademaster]

That's okay, the metaphorical flag decal they were displaying by not mentioning Prine's death from COVID won't get them into Heaven anymore. Thanks to the actions the kind of the people who support an organization like the CMA over the last 9 months, it's getting overcrowded up there.

[skifishbum]

Fuck the country music assfuckocation
Nice write up in the drake though
His abilities and respect for seem to resonate with people who related to his message and style
Fuckin virus is badass
I feel it needed to take him out before he could write a great song about it
Cause he would of
It's what he did

[Woodsy]

It was a shame they didn't honor Mr Prine, he was a troubadour's troubadour, but it is a fucking CRIME they didnt honor Billy Joe Shaver. I mean he was country music personified. CMA can tongue my balloon knot.

Another reason I love Jason Isbell right there in that article.